10-Minute Voice Warm-Up for teachers, presenters and performers.

Описание: About to teach, present, perform or record a video. Take five minutes to warm up your voice and protect it for the work ahead.

In this practical follow-along warm up we go step by step through a simple sequence you can use before any session where you will be talking to groups. We start with the body, then the breath, then resonance, then articulation, and end with a thirty second emergency warm up for those rushed moments just before you speak.

Very briefly, I explain how your voice is actually produced: breath moving through the vocal folds, resonating in the body, and being shaped into words by tongue, lips and jaw. No breath means no voice, and breath is often the most underrated part of vocal work, so this warm up keeps coming back to easy, supported breathing.

In this 5 minute voice warm up you will:

Release physical tension so your voice can move more easily

Connect breath and sound without pushing or straining

Wake up chest, throat and facial resonance

Sharpen articulation with a simple vowel and consonant pattern

Learn a thirty second emergency chest-tapping hum you can use just before you go on

The articulation section uses a useful vowel pattern:
ah, ay, ee, ay, ar, or, oo, or, ah. We add consonants at the beginning, at the end and then both, so you can build strength, clarity and breath control without forcing the voice.

Use this warm up before teaching, training, running workshops, performing, using Social Theatre techniques, recording podcasts or making YouTube content. Your voice is part of your body and it deserves a short warm up before you ask it to work hard.

You can come back to this video any time you need a quick, guided reset.

Workshops and resources at www.actionwork.com.