I didn't realize I never posted this lesson summary...
The focus of this lesson was two fold- firstly we worked on muscles of articulation. It seems like an ongoing theme with my lessons is that Cindy is constantly trying to help me use only the articulators I need for a certain word rather than chewing on consonants and closing my jaw for every single new word rather than keeping the space open. We went through the text of my italian aria just speaking it while holding a finger to my jaw and checking myself for keeping the jaw open. The second main focus of the lesson was about posture, singing in the the position as if you were about to take off with the weight not on the arches or the toes of the foot but on the arches. We also focused a lot on keeping my hips below my rib cage and not having that small arch of the back that I so naturally fall to. We even did some stretches against the wall that focused on keeping an upright, balanced posture.
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