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Hello, my name is Carolina and in the last episode, I was sharing with you five tips to start singing or to get back into shape or to especially forget the question: can I still sing after a break? And last time, I promised an exercise. Today, we are going to do this exercise together. And what we are going to do today has the goal of contracting the tension in your body, the tension in the larynx, that is to say in the external muscle. And this will help your vocal cords, the internal muscles, to work better and to approach the vocal cords with the right airflow. This means singing freely at last. Today's exercise is called Jai breathing. But I want to do this breathing a little differently. It's really Jai for the singer to understand what it is or pranayama, pranayama is control of vital energy. During this exercise, we will learn to breathe healthily and calmly. For me, it is essential to work with the sympathetic nervous system to mobilize also a moment of stress, and singing is a moment of stress. To mobilize our parasympathetic nervous system. And today, we are going to work on that. The best exercise to release tensions that prevent us from singing freely, to stop pushing, to force with the voice. It is really this exercise. Close your eyes now. and stay in contact with your body. You can do a little scan. I didn't say relax on command on purpose because I don't want you to relax on command. So, enter this practice with what you are experiencing today. I close my eyes and I will inhale through my nose naturally and exhale through my nose. and observe my body, what I feel in my body. Do I have any tension anywhere? If not, I continue. For now, I keep my eyes closed. and I go within myself. And now, we will move on to the next step. Open your eyes and place your index fingers inside your ears. Jai means inspiration of the ocean. I would like that when you inhale, you hear a sound that resembles the sound of the waves of the ocean, of the sea, so that it calms us down too. How to do this? It is absolutely by humming that we often learn in yoga classes too. It must be fluid, natural breathing, without tension, and think that you are removing all tensions in your body. I put my index fingers inside my ears and when I inhale, I try to capture if there is a sound inside my head or not. [Music] [Music] And the last What? [Music] Great. Now answer my question. Did you hear this little sound without wanting to push or force the inspiration? If so, very good. Bravo to you. Imagine now that inspiration is like a wave. That's the movement. [Music] The inspiration starts from the perineum. I inhale slowly. That means I'm not going to inhale deeply. And now observe. Inhale. Eyes closed. or where your inspiration ends because it's at the level of the diaphragm. Imagine that inspiration reaches the point behind the eyes. There's no need to really inhale deeply. Just imagine, it will already relax your body much more. And now, exhale. Always think with your eyes closed if it's better for you to bring the inspiration behind the eyes. where the diaphragm is located at the point of consciousness and exhale. And since God has already done this, we are now going to mobilize the upper part of your body. I know, it's a bit unpopular because we've heard as singers especially don't move your shoulders, especially don't move your collarbones. It's a bad sign. It means you are cut off from your inspiration. Inhale with the diaphragm Jesus God. People leave this diaphragm alone, it works on its own involuntarily. It has nothing to do here. Leave your belly relaxed. Don't push when you sing, neither outwards nor inwards. Nothing. Let the inspiration be as natural as possible. not horizontal but vertical. And since you have already inhaled like this, imagine that at the chest level, you have two tectonic plates that open as you inhale. This allows you to relax the tensions in the upper part of your body. So, I always inhale vertically behind the eyes and I exhale. and repeat this several times. Do it with me. Magnificent. And now we will continue. You can sing your note with your throat completely relaxed from this place where you just inhaled behind the eyes. I hear from this place. and not from the throat. I try to stay as calm as possible, relaxed and aware, keeping the sound from the first seconds to the last at the level of the eyes and not at the level of the throat. I will show you now. I will try. [Music] And I want to change the note now. [Music] You can change the notes, you can sing a piece of a song from this place or you can test this exercise. So inspiration I relax I start to hum to found a foundation from this place not with the mask not with the nose I don't manipulate my sound inside the larynx. No no no no it's really from the eyes and this is the place of resonance this is our vocal channel we are not going to invent the vocal channel again the vocal channel is already there and the voice we are not going to invent it again. The voice already exists. It's just that I discover that we can also sing from another place. I assure you that thanks to this exercise, you will free your voice and especially the place that is not very easy for the singer, the high notes. These kinds of exercises are really exercises that invite deep meditation and that's what yoga is. And today, I showed you a bit of pranayama for singers. I hope you liked this video. If so, subscribe to my channel. See you next week.