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Body Mapping
For Singers

Musicians everywhere are discovering body mapping as a vital tool that can both aid in the prevention of injury and the overall improvement of performance skill and pleasure.

What is a body map? It is your self-representation in your own brain. Why would that be so important for singers and performers in general? As Barbra Conable said in What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body, “When your body map is accurate and adequate, movement is efficient and safe.”

What is Somatics? It is the singer’s understanding of the body in movement. Why would that be so important for singers and performers in general? We move for a living! Impede the movement and impede the performance.

Singing Takes Full-Body Awareness

 A singer’s musical instrument is their body, and musical instruments need fine-tuning to play their best.
Body mapping teaches you how to use your body in alliance with your voice.

Using books, anatomical models, movement and verbally guiding singers as they locate where
the different bones and muscles are in their bodies.

Singing Takes Full-Body Awareness

 A singer’s musical instrument is their body, and musical instruments need fine-tuning to play their best. Body mapping teaches you how to use your body in alliance with your voice.

Using books, anatomical models, movement and verbally guiding singers as they locate where the different bones and muscles are in their bodies.

What You Learn
From Body Mapping

Your Body

Singers are MOVERS in every way. Body Mapping is the conscious correcting and refining of the performers body map resulting in:

    • Efficient, graceful and coordinated movement.
    • Efficient and organized movement results in beautiful resonance.
    • Efficient movement releases free vibrations.
    • Efficient movement releases bones and resonators to
      stimulate overtones.
    • Overtones deeply affect tone quality and color availability.

Your Mind

    • The body map is a fluid sense of self therefore it can be changed when given the accurate knowledge needed to move efficiently
      and effectively.
    • The body loves to organize around musical and artistic intent.
    • At least 80% of singing is therefore mindful intention.

Your Self

    • It is quite true that correcting a body map can result in internal as well as external health.
    • Self awareness releases an internal environment that can welcome change and result in greater respect and freedom of artistic expression.

While providing a necessary foundational theory for singing-specific
practices, body mapping also develops praxis for changing the singer’s life for the better. LET’S DO THIS!!

What You Learn
From Body Mapping

Your Body

Singers are MOVERS in every way. Body Mapping is the conscious correcting and refining of the performers body map resulting in:

    • Efficient, graceful and coordinated movement.
    • Efficient and organized movement results in beautiful resonance.
    • Efficient movement releases free vibrations.
    • Efficient movement releases bones and resonators to stimulate overtones.
    • Overtones deeply affect tone quality and color availability.

Your Mind

    • The body map is a fluid sense of self therefore it can be changed when
      given the accurate knowledge needed to move efficiently and effectively.
    • The body loves to organize around musical and artistic intent.
    • At least 80% of singing is therefore mindful intention.

Your Self

    • It is quite true that correcting a body map can result in internal as well
      as external health.
    • Self awareness releases an internal environment that can welcome
      change and result in greater respect and freedom of artistic expression.

While providing a necessary foundational theory for singing-specific
practices, body mapping also develops praxis for changing the singer’s life for the better. LET’S DO THIS!!

Other Music Lessons Offered

A curious mind expands the universe. Interested in body mapping for a better singing voice?
Consider more educational possibilities through Salem Voice Academy.

Voice Lessons

Learn how to control performance elements such as
breath, body, articulation, and projection.

Music Theory

Understand the elements of music for
a better grasp on the music you make!