I help motivated speakers and singers who experience vocal tension, strain or pain when speaking find more vocal ease and power so that they can reclaim their voice and trust it again.
Do you have a hoarse voice? Does your voice get tired? Do you strain your voice and don't know what to do about it?
Over the past 20 years, I’ve been a speech-language pathologist, vocal health educator and voice optimizer, working with a very diverse group of people, including speakers, presenters, teachers, preachers, fitness instructors, musicians and singers of all ages. My clients find more confidence in their voice through releasing tight vocal structures, working with their bodies, and deepening their knowledge of how voice really works.
Let's explore together what's possible for your voice.
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Will you please suggest exercises for Spasnomic disponia.
Katarina if I sign up for your program will I be able to get personal help in the group calls if needed. Meaning if I have questions. I am starting a new career where I will be talking a bunch in about a year, in school now, and I am anxious as I already have MTD. I am doing Vocal function exercises created by Joseph Stemple 5x a week. Neck, trap, pec stretching daily, manual massage when needed, and some other things for 4-5 months and they have helped a bit, but I still get MTD from talking with my normal voice tone. I also had dysphagia for a few years before MTD and always had a hoarse voice as long as I can remember. My ENT said my vocal chords look good. Do you think your course can get me over the hump? I love your multi prong approach by the way. I think the voice efficiency exercises alone are not going to cut it for me. Any wisdom?
Are those your cords? They're lovely.
Thanks!
03:05 omg I'm in for a treat with this video ... all the accumulated tension and a lifetime of having to *exert* to phonate clearly... Looking forward to discovering an answer
Wow! What an incredible difference this exercise made right off the bat. Excited to see if this will teach me to relax my voice in the long term!
What about when you have problems breathing when you sing or speak? Its so scarey. My heart and lungs are fine, Praise God \○/ A Dr told me it seems like Dystonia of the vocal chords and something else I forget. Please help. Please Pray for me ❤ 🧎♀️ ✝️
Hi! Thankz Katarina this video is very informative and i'm learning a lot...its very helpful for me too.
It really works my voice can do jigh notes now
I Had To Avoid Whispering Because I Realized That It Can Squeeze My Vocal Cords. So I Decided To Talk Softly In A Soft Voice Instead.
Can you please suggest any exercises for singers? Thank ypu
Oh my gosh i have been struggling with pain and tension under my chin for like 2 years. This almost instanty helped eleviate some of my throat tension! Thank you! You really have to try to bring your voice as low as you can.
I subscribed but i cant wait when she demonstrait how to massage to much blah blah blah so i unsubscribed again haha
This was wonderful!
I'll try this thank you!
This is AWARENESS. I like your presentation. I have this issue with not being able to talk loudly enough (it seems), but for instance if I have to call at the driver from the back of the bus, I have always followed almost the exact process you describe, and hell, I have EVERYONE'S attention. But, it makes me self conscious. And I just can't be YELLING like that in a noisy conversation, it's way too loud. I've been thinking more about it lately, it confuses me. edit: I notice the pitch change/resonance change in your voice when you do the technique. It reminds me of the change I get in my voice, I have a very similar neck/jaw ratio to you which makes me feel redeemable! lol also, I have almost the same glasses frames :D :D
Thank you for your very helpful videos. Any tips please for mucus which is constantly causing throat clearing, which then leads to loss of voice and hoarseness. Am steaming and now drinking more water. I am a singer and this is affecting my singing. I have tried many meds with no relief.. Could you also please tell where I would purchase a natural nebuliser? Thanks so much
Thank you so much for your very helpful videos. I am a singer and often get the hoarseness in my throat with feeling the need to constantly clear my throat of what feels like mucus. I have tried everything on the medical side and all they keep giving me are meds for nasal drip. None of them help.. I am now going to try some of your tips of steaming, hydration and voice rest.. Will these and other things you can kindly suggest help with this mucus. I am performing in a 10 night show in 3 weeks time and am afraid it has gotten so bad I can’t perform 😢 Any help please
Breathe mullien steam
Ok
Just tried of different sign happening everyday
Sorry I was diagnosed laryngitis 6months ago still have it and very hoarse
Hey, I’m Georg and 3 years ago I injured my voice while singing. For about 2 years I haven’t been able to talk without pain and swelling feeling at all so I’ve not talked at all. I’ve consulted with my doctors and they’ve told me to exercise speaking regularly even if there’s pain but I want to spread my story to get second opinions. I used to sing a lot for several years before my injury. Some days even about 3 hours a day. Went to singing school sometimes, learn a bit of the (CVT vocal technique) One evening, I started to sing and my voice was not that great that day and I also drank a milk product before what causes my throat to produce a lot of mucus and thick feeling. I tried to sing one high note, but I couldn't reach it, so I squeezed my neck and vocal chords to get that high note and that’s how I injured my voice. From that day on my vocal injury has gone worse to the point that for 2 years now, I haven’t been speaking at all. Just a couple of words in one year. The reason for it is now when I speak, my vocal chords and thyroid area get “swollen” and painful(nerve pinching pain). I put swollen in brackets, because I’ve been to a laryngoscope and the camera didn’t detect any swelling in my vocal chords when they looked at it. And also they didn’t find anything other than couple of granulomas(not on the vocal chords) which could have been caused by some food intolerance. The vocal chords were just weak and atrophied. Going back to 2021 when I firstly injured my voice. The symptoms then were similar, there was the swelling feeling, and nerve pain. (it’s really weird to me that there was no swelling detected on camera, because when I get the swelling feeling, my whole throat feels so swollen. I even got a thyroid ultrasound, but nothing was detected there) So back then, basically I still could use my voice after the injury. So I had to not speak for a couple of weeks and then the swelling feeling went away. And I could practice again and talk. But as time went on. The swelling came back and back. I gave it more and more rest, to make the swelling go away.(one doctor back then even said that don’t stop speaking, but for me it didn’t make sense cause my throat felt so swollen and nerve pinching pain was quite bad). So I gave it more and more rest and as the time went on, about a year from the injury, I could only speak about 20 minutes a day. And it was difficult to avoid the swelling feeling and pain away, so I gave it more and more rest, until it became so bad that last year I couldn’t even laugh and this swelling feeling came back. It has since got minimally better now, but still I can only laugh about 5 times a day or less. My question is, if I start to practice again and ignore the swelling feeling in my throat and the nerve pain, would it injure me even more. That’s what I’m worried about. If someone told me that “100%, you will not injure your voice more when practicing through the pain”, then I would start. The last doctor said exactly that, but I needed to get a second opinion somewhere else, because I’m scared to injure my vocal chords even worse, to the point that I could lose my vocal chords forever. Thank you for reading it the whole way through and I would love to hear your opinion! Thank you in advance! :)
I’ve used it fist time now and I think it tastes a bit weird one minute it’s disgusting then ok it’s ok then you smell it then gonna be sick with the smell then you still drink it so I don’t know if I like it or not x
Feels much better great exercise
Thank you Katerina.
Thanks a lot ❤❤
Thank you so much for sharing your expertise. Amazing video, well explained and nicely paced. It is a huge help for me - thank you.
Thank you!! I tried it and works magically!!😊
This is amazing, it has really changed how I sound.❤
I have an immense amount of tenderness and pain when touching my supra hyoid muscles under my chin. It literally brings me to tears. Would you recommend I do this daily , to hopefully relieve this tension?😞
Is it common to have MFD for 8 months or longer ?
Hearing this story made me cry. I have a doctor’s appointment the 16th for a consultation about seeing an ENT for consistent throat tension and soreness/pain that’s come on the last month. I am a singer and actor and am currently doing both as a job. I know it’s partially an anxiety thing but I’ve never had this consistent symptom before, unless my voice was just tired from speaking or talking unhealthily or too much. I know constantly stressing about it is making it worst, and access to talk therapy is somewhat difficult right now. It makes me sad that this can be such a long lasting thing but also hopeful that it gets better. I can even feel some tension release writing this comment. Fingers crossed I can get some solid answers and practice self-love 🩷
so a little over a month ago i got sick and lost my voice completely, as it was still healing and coming back, i went to a concert and screamed my head off. i’ve continued to talk and sing pretty much normally since then but don’t sound as good as usual and i feel so strained all the time singing, and even talking too much. i really hope this helps
I am not a singer but I love talking a lot and lately I feel I feel very tired talking, I have TMJ as well but I also have started to feel this stiffness in front neck side, I keep stretching my muscles of neck while speaking also, PLs help
Thank you. I realize that I really need it. I love to sing but I don’t remember the last time my voice was healthy. God bless you.
How often should you do this
I request you don't go about history of the subject. Please come down to the actual topic of the exercise. 30 minutes video but actual useful is only 08 minutes 😂.
Bruh i think i have sinuses cause i have alot of mucus whenever i start singing two years now ,and ive just found out that ive been over over straining my voice for three years,i used to go up the hill and shout aloooooot ,now my throat i dont know what to say 😢😢😢😢😢,,pliz just tell me what shoul i do😢😢😢
I feel this video is no help for situations like the ones you described at the beginning (restaurants, noisy discos) 😂 makes little sense and seems awkward
How can you scream for a role without harming your singing voice? I think I strained my vocal cords screaming for a role as Regina - now it’s harder for me to hit my high notes - I am trying to figure out HOW to scream! Please help!!!!!
Thank you
Thank you very very much!
You need to reach out to this ‘Dark horse’ in the presidential race that has a hoarse voice.
Excellent thanks. I'm doing this every day
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Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. Tried doing lip trills in the past but could not get it. Thanks to you, I managed to do it! Have subscribed already. Love to sing. But I don't know how to do it correctly.
This is great, but I would avoid the lip trill exercise. Here's why: Lip trills foster breathiness, and should only be used with someone who has excessive subglottal pressure. Let me explain physiologically. A lip trill is essentially making a reed or vibrating mechanism out of the lips. If you hold your finger in front of your mouth while doing a lip trill, you will feel the air blowing by your finger...the amount of air that is required to trill the lips. This lip 'reed' is on top of the same tube of air that the vocal folds are on top of further back in the air tube. When the vocal folds are phonating properly there is an economy of air (the vocal 'reed' is like an oboe reed...the proper sound of a 'double reed' instrument, which the voice technically is, is very focused and nasal-like). I.e., if you are phonating properly the voice is not breathy but very focused, and there is almost no air going by your finger if you hold it in front of your mouth when singing properly. In order to provide the amount of air for a lip trill, you would have to be much more unfocused (i.e., breathy) at the vocal folds to allow enough air to support the lip trill further along in the same air tube. I have had students complaining that they have not been able to remove breathiness from their voice, while all along they were reinforcing a breathy voice by practicing lip trills daily. In defense of this knowledgeable clinician, it is common practice to use lip trills in voice studios. I used them until I learned about this. If you want to loosen your lips and tongue, you can do these exercises unvoiced (i.e., with just air and no phonation from the vocal folds). The other exercises are good to do, though, and I would continue them.
Thank you so much for all your efforts! I love the content. Question: I have a laryngitis, is it ok if I speak from time to time? becus I have to use my voice during the day quite a lot. Will I be able to recover my voice that way? or I need to shut it for 3-4 days completely?
Does this work for singers too?
I have severe lpr. so the exercises make me choke. but I appreciate having something to aim for