0782 – The ‘Yawn Sigh’ Vocal Exercise

2023.02.21 – 0782 – The ‘Yawn Sigh’ Vocal Exercise  

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The Yawn Sigh

Yawning opens and stretches muscles at the back of your throat.

·        Stand up and inhale as you yawn, a full-bodied one, wide and deep. Get your whole body involved: open your mouth, keep your tongue relaxed and gently touching your lower teeth, soft palate raised, stretching and widening at the back of your throat, scrunch your face, stretch your arms over your face and really let it all go. Consciously feel your diaphragm as you breathe air into the very bottom of your lungs; a good stretch of your throat. Sigh your breath out as silently as you can.

The Yawn Sigh – with sound

This work-out exercise will help increase your pitch range so you do not sound quite so flat.

·        Repeat the Yawn-Sigh exercise, but this time make a gentle sound with your voice as you sigh, gliding down in pitch from high to low like a siren. Repeat 5 times.

·        Keep the yawning ‘ahhh’ sound, but stop short of it starting to ‘gravel out’ as you run out of breath. Repeat this five times, each time projecting slightly more with the sound coming from your chest, not from your throat.

The Closed Yawn

Close your lips and then yawn. Be conscious of the space and air contained in your mouth and throat. Repeat 5 times.

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