0866 – Your Voice in Winter - 1

2023.05.16 – 0866 – Your Voice in Winter - 1

Winter can be a challenging time for your voice. To quote the song, “the weather outside is frightful” with cold air, there’s warm dry heated air inside, and if the season coincides with Christmas and New Year (depending on your hemisphere[1]) there’s bugs picked up from socialising and travelling, holiday performances such as concerts and carols.

So here are some health tips to follow for the winter months – over and above the usual ones that we’ve looked at before.

1. Breathe Through Your Nose

You knows that your nose is your friend in this season. OK on the outside it may get as red as Rudolph’s but on the inside, it’s doing what it does best: filtering and warming the cold air you breathe in, before sending it to the back of the throat. So as your larynx prefers warm and moist rather than cold and dry air, breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth to help it do its best work.

2. Prepare Your Home

Inside, the air is likely to be dry and dusty, another combination that’s not good for your cords. Dusty heaters, radiators and air conditioning unit may need a clean so you don’t breathe in the build-up from the months they weren’t used. Add some moisture to the air by using a no-heat humidifier or by simply putting a bowl water on top of the radiator.

3. Scarf up!

Wearing a scarf, balaclava or snood will help cut the amount of cold, dry air you breathe in and adds another filter too. In fact, keeping your whole body warm outside will makes you more relaxed and less stressed.

[1] Obviously, the cold weather does not coincide with Christmas in the southern hemisphere, so some of these tips are less directly applicable. 

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