We work with anyone and everyone for whom breathlessness, dysfunctional breathing patterns, the voice, postural integration and/or chronic lung disease might have relevance.
The Spring 2024 Course (April / May 2024) is now fully booked.
To find out more and to register interest in future courses, visit the Singing for Lung Health Online Training page.
“The workshop had quite an impact on me and I found that it was surprisingly moving and affected my whole being – not just my voice.”
Claire RosscornesMusic Therapist
Our first breath welcomes us into the world and our last breath ends our life.
We don’t notice our breath until our attention is drawn to it, either through a meditative practice or when we have been exercising strongly or if we have a pathological condition. We hold our breath with fear and excitement. Working with the breath is vital, powerful and intimate. It is a transformative experience for participant and practitioner.
”…breath enables speech and expressive gestures…
Breath energises movement and enables bodily activity.Nothing is possible without breath; breathing marks life.
Havi CarelInvisible Suffering (2015)
We all have a base pulse, a core tempo, a rhythm that is ours to dance.
Every individual is unique.
When our breathing goes awry for whatever reason, it affects us profoundly as it knocks our internal timing. The judicious, sensitive and participatory use of a beautifully timed and paced melody can elongate the outbreath and slow us down, calm any anxiety and return us to a sense of equilibrium.
”People's core relationship to music often remains sound and whole, even if everything else around this seems disrupted or damaged.
This basic attachment to music is often a key resource for people to locate what is still healthy in themselves and others
Gary AnsdellHow Music Helps (2014)
