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Nasal breathing: Not only will breathing through your nose reduce the risk of you becoming dehydrated, it has many other significant health benefits, as Patrick McKeown explains in his TEDX Talk (16 minutes) ‘Shut your mouth, change your life’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBqGS-vEIs0

The effects of stress on your speaking voice: Voice coach Nancy Daniels describes the negative effects stress has on your voice, and reinforces our message about the importance of diaphragmatic breathing: www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the_negative_effects_stress_has_on_your_speaking_voice

Least dehydrating alcohols: Not all alcohols are created equal, and some will dehydrate you less than others. It also depends how you drink them: www.foodandwine.com/news/whats-least-dehydrating-alcohol

Q: How do you think stress has previously affected your voice?

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Unit 1: Orientation

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Your voice and you

1.3. How will this course improve my voice?

1.4. How does Better Voice work?

1.5. Before you begin

1.6. Voice exercise: an introduction to the hum

1.7. How your body affects your voice

1.8. Follow-up resources

Unit 2: Getting Started

2.1. Tips for all the voice exercises

2.2. Voice exercises: the essentials of the hum

2.3. Voice exercises: help with humming

2.4. Better breathing: the Better Voice approach

2.5. Better breathing: the diaphragmatic breath

2.6. Follow-up resources

Unit 3: Changing Notes

3.1. Onward but not upward

3.2. Voice: thinking horizontally

3.3. Voice exercises: changing notes

3.4. Voice exercises: strings of notes

3.5. Better posture: keeping your head balanced

3.6. Follow-up resources

Unit 4: Opening your Mouth

4.1. Can you feel change happening yet?

4.2. Voice exercises: opening your mouth

4.3. Voice exercises: Solving possible problems with opening your mouth

4.4. Better breathing: relax and breathe out

4.5. Keeping your voice healthy

4.6. Follow-up resources

Unit 5: Spoken Words

5.1. Goodbye to the hum?

5.2. Voice: forming words

5.3. Voice exercises: Mix and match consonants and vowels

5.4. Meet the friendly phrases

5.5. Better posture: sitting well

5.6. Follow-up resources

Unit 6: Expand your Better Voice

6.1. Bringing Better Voice into your life and introducing it to others

6.2. Voice exercises: different notes

6.3. Voice exercises: float the notes

6.4. Better breathing: the complete breath

6.5. Better posture: standing well

6.6. Before you go

4.6. Follow-up resources

Nasal breathing: Not only will breathing through your nose reduce the risk of you becoming dehydrated, it has many other significant health benefits, as Patrick McKeown explains in his TEDX Talk (16 minutes) ‘Shut your mouth, change your life’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBqGS-vEIs0

The effects of stress on your speaking voice: Voice coach Nancy Daniels describes the negative effects stress has on your voice, and reinforces our message about the importance of diaphragmatic breathing: www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the_negative_effects_stress_has_on_your_speaking_voice

Least dehydrating alcohols: Not all alcohols are created equal, and some will dehydrate you less than others. It also depends how you drink them: www.foodandwine.com/news/whats-least-dehydrating-alcohol

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