Hello! I see that you sometimes talk about anchoring your singing in your core, but what do you mean by that? Do you mean just breathing from your diaphragm? Or are there muscles in my core I should be tightening or anything like that? Thanks!
I was just talking to a student about how difficult it is to describe this in words, rather than in person. I guess the simplest way to boil it down is that we want to be doing the work in our core. Breathing from the diaphragm is really a misnomer--we always breathe from the diaphragm. We cannot breathe without the diaphragm. It facilitates every breath we take by expanding and contracting. Without it, our lungs wouldn’t function! But anywho, we often find ourselves squeezing to get notes out, or using our throat to do all the work--we want to fight that squeeze and take all of the strain out of our throats and put all that work in our core. Beyond that, I can’t really describe it any further without working with you personally. It’s a pretty odd concept, and words simply can’t capture it fully!
