From the course: Singing Lessons: 1 Fundamentals
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Get ready to sing: Part 2
From the course: Singing Lessons: 1 Fundamentals
Get ready to sing: Part 2
- So, um, I'm going to ask you for this to kick your shoes off. We're going to let go of our shoes, so that we can really feel the earth beneath us. I practice a lot of yoga. I have found, I mean I've sung since I was four years old. I discovered yoga as a young adult, and the more I learn about yoga, the more useful I find it as a singer. And the mountain pose, which is one of the most simple, fundamental yoga poses, when I first was taught the mountain pose, it was like a light bulb going off in my head. Oh, this is the most comfortable pose for me as a singer. I had already kind of naturally discovered the mountain pose. I didn't really pay attention to what I was doing, I hadn't gotten into the details of how to focus my attention on all the different parts of making this pose until I got deep into yoga. And now I use the mountain pose intentionally as a preparation for singing. I use it as my foundational stance. So in mountain pose, you are the mountain. You make your body the…
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