Vocal Remedy Kit

Keeping your voice healthy through thick and thin is an ongoing task. If you were to use your voice only when you feel completely healthy and stress free, then many of you would never be able to make a living performing. The Voice Remedy Kit came together through the efforts of Kate Hart (Finding Your Voice) and Kathryn Conlen (Upright Health and Wellness) due to the demands of people that use their voice for a living. As a professional touring singer and vocal coach, Ms. Hart has been aware of the issues that singers and speakers encounter. Consulting Kathryn Conlen, (how do I describe you) together, they created the Vocal Remedy Kit.

The kit includes what most “voice users” may encounter. Everything from stuffed up noses to sore throats to feeling tired to nerves before performing. Of course this kit can be used by anyone and will introduce you to the Young Living Essential Oils as an alternative to health and emotional issues.

That is why it is important to prevent problems by knowing yourself, your voice and your limits. With seasonal changes, you have vocal issues to think about. The most important things you can do is to do your warm-ups, stay hydrated and get enough sleep.

Sleep
If you don’t get enough rest, all the muscles that aren’t supposed to work when you sing/speak jump into help you compensate for your lack of energy. You will find your voice gets tired sooner, won’t be as flexible and you will tend to overdrive the air pressure to correct any sound problems. Slamming extra air into your vocal cords will make them tense which can cause you to sing flat or lose resonance.

Water and Lemon
You must be hydrated (double that if you have asthma) Your vocal cords are surrounded by a mucous membrane. This mucous membrane must stay very wet and fluid for your vocal cords to operate properly. When you feel like you have phlegm in your throat or you have to clear your throat – it’s not because you have mucous; it’s because the mucous is too think or it is shaking off due to a proper warm-up. You need more water in your body to thin the mucous membrane out. But not plain water. You need to bind the mucous and flush it out and that means lemon. The juice of the lemon will grab extra mucous and flush. Daily -Quart of water with two lemons. (Add Blue Agave for sweetener if you need to/no sugar!)

30 Minute Warm-up
Bend Over touch toes
Let gravity pull on your cheeks/lips while bent over
Allow the back to stretch into the hang
Come up slowly
Lean head to the left stretching the neck (drop right shoulder to increase the stretch)
Do the same on the right
Do the same stretching the head forward
Now tilt the head back while stretching
Flutter lips
Wag tongue
Stick tongue out as far as you can and make a long A sound
Tilt Head back and stick tongue in and out saying Ah
Coo (like a dove)
Baby cry
Sniff then hum
Ming in the back of the throat
Yawn while saying dumb
Bright humming
Slowly trace back of the teeth with tongue in each direction
Do the same tracing the front of the teeth
Do the same with the outside of the lips
Do the same with the tongue sticking out
Pull tongue
Hello How Are You - in low register
Say AW, keep the back of the tongue down
Siren sound with mouth closed
Hoot (Owl sound)
Vowel alignment - knee ah I oh u (as if you are chanting)
Sigh
Work on counting while sticking out diaphragm - keeping it out
Light and Bright Humming - up and down throughout your range - keep repeating

Kathryn Conlen BA, MT, CST The foundation of her practice stems from a deep trust and faith in our innate ability to heal when the relationship to our self has lost balance in life for whatever the reason. Her services also support healthy growth and development in children and people of all ages. Bodywork addresses the individual as a whole as she does not treat symptoms, pain or dis-ease. She identifies areas of imbalance and work with the body's own righting mechanism to restore balance. The term "upright", in this context, is rooted in the relationship of the brain and spinal cord to supporting the body upright. As the founder, she is inspired by many teachers of various disciplines -helping you find the healing that is your divine birthright!

Ordering Information:
Holistic Voice Institute
248-439-1400
Kim Soncrainte
soncrainte@comcast.net

$125.00 includes shipping