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Since 1982, the VoiceCare Network has offered courses to thousands of music educators, choir directors, voice teachers, performers and voice enthusiasts from all over the world and shared research, knowledge and techniques to reshape what they know and do with voices.
The VoiceCare Network invites you to rejuvenate your passion for the voice and transform your knowledge by immersing yourself in a creative, hands-on, 8-day graduate level course
(4 semester credits/54 contact hours) where, regardless of your level of experience, you can:
- Develop your singing through powerful evidence-based vocal techniques
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Explore classroom and rehearsal approaches to help singers build confidence, grow and succeed
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Discover how to sing for a lifetime and teach others to do the same
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Invite freedom in yourself and others to produce rich, effortless, and expressive sound
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Learn strategies to keep your voice healthy all year long
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Enhance choral sound and expression through non-interfering singer centered conducting
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This site is for MUSIC EDUCATORS, CHOIR/CHORAL CONDUCTORS, VOICE TEACHERS, SINGERS, SPEECH PATHOLOGISTS, AND EAR-NOSE-THROAT PHYSICIANS
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BODYMIND AND VOICE:
Foundations of Voice Education
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NEWS & EVENTS
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Have we lost touch with you?
If you are a VoiceCare Network member and have not received an email or postcard from VCN in the past year, please email us your new information. atheimer@csbsju.edu
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VOICE HEALTH TIPS
Mucus Monsters
Throat mucus can stop your vocals in their tracks. The thick secretions from chronic mucus monsters affect voice quality and voice control. Throat clearing helps temporarily, but the monster quickly returns. Habitual clearing makes the problem even worse. Chronic, persisting thick mucus is often caused by upper esophagus irritation (such as reflux) allergies, asthma, or other bio irritants. This level usually requires some medical intervention. Temporary mucus accumulation has many causes. A partial list includes dehydration, food sensitivities, air born irritants, inhalers, poor air quality and the residuals from colds and upper respiratory infections.
Treating mucus problems is a challenge. Treatments include sipping water, throat steaming, medications, throat sprays and teas, lozenges, hot lemon drinks, lemon drops. The most recent home remedy I heard was to sip pineapple juice as hot as is tolerable. What are your special treatments for your throat monsters? Email me at the Fairview Voice Center cklitzk1@fairview.org. I’ll list them here at the Voice Care Network site.
Avoid caffeine, drink 8 glasses of water per day, don’t eat/drink dairy and drink ginger lemon tea for colds. These are a few of the dogmatic suggestions I’ve heard during the past week. There probably is some truth to these, for some people. There is a study that showed a 60% increase in upper esophagus reflux (if the subject already had reflux) with caffeinated versus decaffeinated coffee. The “truth” of 8 glasses of water has been repeated for eons. Some people would bloat and float away with that much! Eating dairy products often causes increased throat mucus-for many. Does it for you? Ginger is used to soothe digestion, not for sore throats. But it might feel good for YOUR cold, or it might burn YOUR throat. Self monitor and get to know you and your responses. Then decide what goes into your body.
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Our 29th Anniversary Year
Impact Course
St. John's University
Collegeville, MN
July 8-15, 2010
Continuing Course
St. John's University
Collegeville, MN
July 18-23, 2010
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VoiceCare on the Road
See where we are and what we are doing:
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Purchase Bodymind and Voice!
Click here to find out about the Bodymind and Voice book and to purchase your copy.
IMPORTANT: If you intend to register for this summer's Impact course, receive a discount when you purchase it during course registration.
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