I recently had the opportunity to lead a workshop on Self-Care for the Vocal Tract for Certified Teachers of Fitzmaurice Voicework. My workshop was part of a series on self-care offered by the Advanced Training Team at the Fitzmaurice Institute. We focused on softening tension around the spine (especially the cervical spine and the occipital ridge), the neck, the jaw, the lips, the tongue, and the soft palate, and we connected those openings to breath support coming from the transverse abdominal muscle.
I am also part of a team of FV teachers offering a new kind of online workshop for the Fitzmaurice Institute: a six-part workshop on Fitzmaurice Fundamentals. I am co-teaching with FV Master Teacher and Lead Trainer Jeff Morrison on the second day of the workshop. We’ll focus that day on destructuring, or release of muscular tension in order to find spontaneous breath.