845 – Birthday Candles

2023.04.25 – 0845 – Birthday Candles Birthday candles Stand as previously described, with your feet firmly on the floor shoulder-width apart, knees very slightly bent rather than locked, with dropped and relaxed shoulders.·        Put your hands on your diaphragm area to help you feel and picture the following process·        Now blow out some imaginary candles on a cake, with short sharp, exaggerated panting bursts of air… you should see and feel a lot of movement in your diaphragm as you do this·        Now do this again with some sound: “huh huh huh” to engage the vocal folds as well as the abdominal muscles. You should get 10-20 sounds out per breath before running out of air. If you aren’t, focus on deeper inhalation and controlling the amount of air you exhale with each sound.·        Repeat with a series of staccato “ch” sounds Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.