We have addressed posture and breathing in depth. Now that those aspects are coming along, it's time to start addressing the constriction of the vocal tract. I think I'll start with the jaw, because you really can't release anything else if the jaw is tense. So. First I'm going to have her read something for me so I can see if there is a lot of jaw constriction in her speech. I'm going to have her massage her jaw/cheek area and then have her lie down on the inflatable ball. This will tip her head back but still support it, and stretch her jaw into a very open position. I want her to experiment singing in that position. We'll do some warm ups from there, very light easy ones, with the goal being release - not sound production. Then she can stand and we'll talk about the happy idiot face. We'll do some experimenting trying to speak without closing our jaws. Then we'll go to one of her pieces and see what we can apply there.
Next lesson we'll do tongue or larynx I think, and we'll just keep rotating through these basics. That's the plan!
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