Basic Exercises Before Taking a Step to Face the Crowd in Public Singing or Public Speaking.

Steps to the Basic Stance (you posture)

a.         Close your eyes.

b.         Your feet are shoulder width apart. In your mind’s eye, see that your feet are

directly beneath your hip bones, and your hip bones are directly beneath your

shoulders.

c.         Your weight is evenly distributed between your feet. Rock slightly forward

and backward and from side to side to test this.

d.         Your knees are slightly bent.

e.         Your pelvis is slightly tipped under.

f.          Your spine is like a long vertical rope with knots (the vertebrae). It hangs

from the first vertebrae of your neck straight down to the last vertebrae above

your tailbone.

g.         Your head balances on the top of your neck. In your mind’s eye your head is

suspended by a helium balloon, attached by a string to the place on the top of

your head where your hair swirls around.

h.         Your shoulders are relaxed back and down. Roll them around in their joints

a few times backward to check this.

i.          Your arms are loose at your sides.

j.          Your hands are relaxed, and all your fingers are loose.

k.         All the muscles in your face are relaxed. Your jaw is slack. Your mouth is

relaxed and open.

l.          You are breathing through your mouth.

m.        our stomach is loose, fat and flabby. In your mind’s eye, see the air come in

cool over your tongue, go all the way down the inside of your torso into your fat,

flabby relaxed stomach and come back up and out warm as you exhale.

m.        A deep, relaxing inhalation and let out a deep, relaxing exhalation.