Interact with Impact - Week 3 Tutorial - Breathing

This tutorial will help you understand the movements that happen in the body to allow for breathing and how postural issues interfere with them.

You'll also learn about common misconceptions of breathing and how breathing and posture can work together to support your voice.

Please take this all as information that will inform Wednesday's class.  Try to avoid directly changing your breathing and simply observe what you notice about how you sit/stand/focus and if it affects your breathing.

At the end, there's a suggestion for an exercise to try out while speaking.  

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Schedule Individual Coaching

  • 45-minute individual session
  • 20-minute check-ins

Introduction

  • Welcome Video
  • Welcome Letter - Course Overview
  • Preliminary Questionnaire

Week 1 - Body Awareness

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  • Week 1 Tutorial - Body Awareness
  • Body Awareness Sitting Guide
  • Audio guide - floor exercise - "Thinking" in your body
  • Progress Tracker - 4 Quadrants
  • Set Up Your Desk for Success.pdf
  • Interact with Impact Live Class Feb 7.mp4

Week 2 - Take Up Your Space (and free your shoulders)

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  • Week 2 Tutorial - Take Up Your Space
  • Standing Alignment Reset - Short Video Guide
  • Picking the Apple - Shoulder Range of Motion Exercise
  • The 3 Circles - How do you engage with people and things?
  • Interact with Impact Live Class Feb 14.mp4

Week 3 - Breathing: the link between posture & voice

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  • Interact with Impact - Week 3 Tutorial - Breathing
  • Floor Exercise - Breathing Space
  • Interact with Impact - Feb 21 Live Class.mp4

Week 4 - Feet & Legs - Being Grounded

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  • Week 4 - Being Grounded.mp4
  • Lunge Exercise Short Video
  • Energize your Feet & Legs - Floor Guide
  • Pelvis Movements - Short Video
  • IWI Practice Class Feb 27.mp4
  • Interact with Impact Feb 28 Live Class.mp4

Week 5 - Vocal Power - Project without Pushing

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  • Week 5 Tutorial - Vocal Power
  • Freeing the Jaw & The Whispered "Ah" - Short Video
  • Interact with Impact Practice Class Mar 4.mp4
  • Interact with Impact 3_7 Live Class.mp4

Week 6 - Whack-A-Habit: Simple, fun tools to get unstuck

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  • Week 6 Tutorial: Whack-A-Habit
  • Habit Detective Cheat Sheet
  • Floor Exercise - Diagonal Directions
  • Shoulder Exercise & Sequence for Picking Things Up
  • Hand Exercise Short Video
  • Interact with Impact Live Class - March 15.mp4
  • Interact with Impact Practice Class - March 10.mp4

Week 7 - Fitness Foundations

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  • Week 7 Tutorial - Fitness Foundations
  • Integrating Exercises
  • Playing with Rhythm
  • Interact with Impact March 21 Class.mp4

Week 8 - Putting it all Together

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  • Week 8 Tutorial - Putting It All Together
  • Interact with Impact_March 24 Practice Class.mp4
  • Interact with Impact 3_28 live class.mp4
  • Interact with Impact 3_28 live class.mp4
  • Interact with Impact March 31 Practice Class.mp4
  • Recommended Reading