Energise Your Voice With This 2-Min Micro Flow

Your voice is your body and your body is your voice, if your body isn’t awake, alert, and energised, there is no way your voice can perform at its peak.

This is why I encourage all singers to spend 10 minutes doing physical movement that targets the Singing Specific Areas before doing your vocal warm up.

To give you a taste of the awesomeness of targeted movement, I’m going to demonstrate a 2 minute Micro Flow. This Micro Flow is also great for when you don’t have 10 minutes to prime your body properly.

For example, you can use this with your singing students in the beginning of their lesson, or better still, share this video with them and get them to do it while they wait for their lessons.

You can also use this to re-energise your body in between sets, or on long rehearsals or recording days where there are lots of stopping and singing.

And of course you can do this when you are running late because some movement is better than no movement.

As always, exercises you see on the internet may not be suitable for you, always trust your body’s wisdom, if something doesn’t feel right, don’t do it. If you’re unsure, check with your own physiotherapist.

And make sure you watch until the end because I have a gift for you.

Okay let’s do it. It’s probably best to watch me do it once first before following along.

Alright we start with rolling the shoulders and turn your head, turn and back, turn and back, turn and back.

Then side and centre, side and centre, side and centre and side and centre, then round and up, open and back, round and up, and open and back.

Grab your elbows then open your belly, open your belly, open your belly, then open your side, open your side, use your legs to open your side, open your side, open your side

Now step and open in a diagonal, step and open in a diagonal, step and open in a diagonal.

Now front and back, arm out, around and hug, round and hug, round and hug, around and hug, arm out, hips to the side, side to side, side to side.

And swap around, round and hug, round and hug, round and hug, and around and hug, hips side to side, side to side, side to side, and side to side.

Circle your hips, circle your arms, circle your hips, circle your arms, circle your hips, circle your arms, circle your hips, circle your arms, now down and up, down and up, down and up, and down and up.

Well I am certainly feeling energised. What about you? Let me know how you feel in the comments.

It’s pretty awesome what 2 minutes of targeted movement can do for you already, imagine doing a proper 10 minute flow?

As a physiotherapist I don’t believe that just doing a vocal warm up is enough to prepare us for singing. I go into all the elements of a proper priming process in this video but I want to highlight a few for you here.

Like I said in the beginning, I think we should start with 10 minutes of physical movement, once your body is energised, then do your vocal warm up.

Your vocal warmup should prepare you to sing the songs you are about to sing, so if you have to belt, prepare for belting, if you have to growl, prepare for growling.

So yes, that does mean that you should have different warm ups for different repertoire, so make sure you are regularly updating your warm up routine with your singing teacher.

After your vocal warm up it is time for Integration. What is Integration?

Integration is simple exercises that helps you sync up your Body-Breath-Voice so they collaborate well without interfering with one another.

And this takes me to the gift I mentioned. In my FREE mini course “Introduction to Breath Support”, after I’ve walked you through how to correctly connect with your core and pelvic floor for your Breath Support, I then teach you the first step to Integrating your Body-Breath-Voice for efficient singing. You can grab the free training using the link in the description.

Thank you so much for joining me today. I’m Selina, a physio and a singer. I help singers build strong bodies to enhance their vocal efficiency and performance, if you want some more of this awesomeness make sure you subscribe.

And this playlist has more juicy videos for singers so make sure you check it out. ‘Til next time, Be Free In Your Movement™. And make sure you “laurrr” okay… [blooper]