Improve Your Voice with Yoga - How Yoga Can Help to Improve Your Singing and Public Speaking

Ann Grant
Yoga is a hidden secret in the professional singing and public speaking world, since it is a cost effective method to rapidly improve your voice and overall speaking abilities. When the throat is particularly loose or flexible, it encourages the vocal cords to properly resonate, yielding better sound.

Stretching the entire body with yoga can also improve breathing abilities and help to improve your singing and public speaking, since this encourages highly efficient oxygen transport through the body (makes the heart and lungs function more efficiently). Certain yoga poses are also better than others in helping to make you a better singer or public speaker.

A perfect yoga pose for helping to make you a better singer or public speaker is the sun salutation. The sun salutation is not a single pose but a series of poses that can help to improve your voice tremendously. This particular pose also helps the efficiency of blood transport through the body as well as increasing the efficiency of the cardiovascular system, which goes a long way in making you a better singer or public speaker.

Another excellent yoga pose for helping to improve your singing and public speaking voice is the wheel pose. The wheel pose is particularly effective since it is a backward bending pose that helps to increase blood flow to the lungs and chest. It is a wonderful stretch that also helps people looking to improve their public speaking and singing skills.

The shoulder stance is not a pose but a sequence of poses that can help you to improve your singing and public speaking skills, a particularly effective pose in this sequence is called the savagasana (a term meaning that it encompasses and has some effect on every part of your body.

This simple pose is an inversion and has two counter poses associated with it; the bridge and the fish that help to relax the entire body. The fish pose helps to loosen the chest and can help sufferers of respiratory conditions like asthma and can help to increase your singing and public speaking skills.

The relaxation pose also helps to increase your singing and public speaking by helping to increase breathing control. Yoga also helps to cleanse the respiratory system of excess mucus and phlegm and can help to improve your voice. These advantages help yoga to improve the singing and public speaking voice of any aspiring singer and public speaker.

References1. http://nitawriter.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/bad-teachers-teach-bad-yoga/
2. http://ezinearticles.com/?Basic-Yoga-Techniques-For-Beginners&id=2561989

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