Unless you have some kind of congenital deformity or surgical alteration, If you know how to breathe you can sing; sooner than later.  A client told me " Michael, when I sing, nearby plants die".  Cute but I had him singing the national anthem in full voice in two days. Singing is a God given ability that most have lost due to trauma, unlearning and social conditioning in that they have been convinced they can not sing. "Don't give up your day job" is not funny. It is deeply insulting. The voice is one's second face. You would never insult someone's face would you.  

To learn to use our voice and its relevant vibrations and internal sensing as a bridge between our body, brain, and nervous system we must break up, break through, and reconstruct years of bad habits, stress, retentive fear and/or repressed anger. The result of this enables us to focus our attention and express feelings, thoughts, and actions in an awareness that is free of constraint and connected to our deepest being. When we are no longer choked up by the past, the present is fully experienced.

Our breathing development program involves creating and re-establishing new muscular coordination and nervous system circuitry in the body and brain which in turn gives us access to new experiences of breathing/vocal function and fuller body awareness. Through this process, one completely faces and functions from the source of one's creative self, having cleared and eclipsed past ways of being and doing. One is unable to regress back into negative behaviors because these aspects are no longer a part of oneself. They no longer feel right. 

Our system creates a permanent bridge to the source of one's natural creative self, resulting in an entirely new experience and expression of life. Our program requires no leap of faith, belief systems, philosophy, or practice. This work produces fundamental and permanent change by awakening your senses to a full range of expressions. Hidden talents and creative thoughts emerge.

Our system is unequaled anywhere in the world because it combines elements of touch and non touch approaches. We actually physically restructure the singing body. This program is not a similar or revised edition of another program. It is a totally unique system. 

The following Singing and Voice Problems email typifies a problem often overlooked by classical trained voice teachers. The teacher, no matter how well intended, rarely takes the student beyond where the teacher has gone him/herself. If you breathe you can sing. If you can sing, you do not necessarily know how to breathe. Trust me on this. It is an axiom of the breath. 

SINGING & VOICE PROBLEMS

Dear Mike,

Hello! I have been looking at your web site for the past two days, I looked and read every single page, I found it so interesting, touching the particular issues I was looking for on the internet, the web site is also very well designed, I was really happy to find it. Telling you a little about myself, my name is Benjamin I am 22 years old, I go to voice training it’s been exactly a year from now since I started, I luckily found a great voice teacher that devoted himself literally (our relationship is far more than between any regular teacher and student), I started with a  small little voice very nasal, today I am a tenor (Lyrico- spinto) with a range of a little less than 3 octaves, we’ve progressed tremendously in such a short time, I can already sing most of Pavarotti’s repertoire, and Jewish Cantorial. All the credit go to my teacher, but we are both determined to continue on improving, developing the vocal potential. My teacher never put any special emphasis about the proper way of breathing as other voice methods would, "we were born with the natural best way of breathing" he says, he himself was a terrific world known Opera singer, "I always had enough breath", his career was cut short due to a pneumonia, he couldn’t perform anymore, feeling that he wasn’t able to sustain an opera anymore (before that he used to be a real lion on stage), since then he stopped and much later he began giving voice lessons. That is actually the purpose of me writing to you, in the beginning of my voice, training, singing Arias felt physically very hard, after half an hour singing I felt how the diaphragm was getting tired, especially at the higher registered, although being within my vocal range ability, I was unable to continue singing, my teacher kept saying that it’s normal for someone that just begins singing, and taught me how to approach it lighter. We did special scale exercises for that, to built the flexibility and make the diaphragm stronger, now it is really different, I can sing for much longer, but I still feel that same feeling, in a smaller way of course, I also run out of breath sometimes especially singing in the high register, that’s why I would like to have your opinion on that, if your method for breathing improvement may be able to help me, I would surely buy it, my teacher agrees that improving the "natural" breathing can only be helpful for a singer. (I read your reply to the opera singer in the "FAQ" section, but I felt the need to tell you about myself, in order for you to help me better).

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