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Singing Teachers TalkEp.160 Tuning into Trauma: Strategies for Singing Teachers with Psychologist Dr. Lydia StoneIn this week's episode Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Lydia Stone, joins Alexa Terry to discuss the topic of trauma. Lydia specialises in working with fostered and adopted children and families, she also runs a choir and is currently on the BAST Training Level 5 qualification course. Lydia explains the potential impacts of trauma on the singer, and helps us understand how we can conduct more trauma-informed singing lessons. KEY MOMENTS "Trauma responses impact muscle tension and vocal control""Accept and empathise but maintain professional boundaries""Self-care helps teachers support singers' me...
2024-05-0852 min
2022-04-2031 min
A Voice and Beyond#54. Celebrating All Voices: Building A Thriving and Collaborative Community Part IIWe are so excited to announce it is our first birthday. Yes, it is one year since we launched our very first episode of A Voice and Beyond and to celebrate this exciting milestone, we would like to share some brilliant highlights from our interview rounds, where our internationally acclaimed voice teachers and music artists offer their pearls of wisdom from lessons they have learned throughout their own personal and professional experiences in the music industry, in the teaching studio and beyond. Each guest shares with us their empowering words of advice, as they speak c...
2022-03-131h 06A Voice and Beyond#46. Establishing Boundaries Between Teacher and Therapist in the Voice Studio with Petra Raspel BorzinskiToday’s guest is Petra Raspel Borzinski.Petra is an accomplished musician and educator, who is trained in psychology, somatic therapy and cognitive-behavioural approaches. Petra speaks candidly about how her limiting beliefs around perfectionism, led her to suffer from performance anxiety throughout her entire career. Based on her own personal experiences, as well as the knowledge she acquired through her own education, Petra teaches performing artists how to regulate their nervous systems, reconnect with their bodies and their deepest values so they can perform and live freely. In this episode, Petra confesses that she has an obsession wi...
2022-01-161h 16
Empower Your VoiceES049 Growth Mindset for Creatives w/ Petra RaspelPetra is a Vocal Coach, Singing Teacher, Life & Career Coach for Creatives in Glasgow, United Kingdom. she has special expertise in helping (performing) artists and creatives to overcome limiting beliefs and emotional blocks to perform better and without fear. She has helped hundreds of people to prepare for or sustain a singing career, find personal fulfilment through music and overcome limiting beliefs and performance anxiety. Our conversation is broken into two parts, first dealing with performance anxiety for the singer, and second, setting oneself up for a growth mindset as a professional. Petra began in this field by want...
2019-01-1029 min