Your tummy, chest, laterals and shoulders support your your lungs. Your spine is the backbone of the instrument and needs to be held straight for the air and energy to flow fully. Your face is a resonate chamber. Your nasal passages, your mouth throat and ear canals all resonate the sound. Your tongue, jaw and soft palate all combine to create different shapes that create different sounds. Through this lesson we will be exploring how it all works and what it all means. Start to train yourself to become more breath conscious.

Placement of the resonance of your voice determines your voice resonance quality. Singing is a whole body experience and we need to be conscious of where our attention is when we produce the sound and vibration. In this video we will learn where the voice comes from and how to move it around so we can achieve the resonance and clarity of tone.

In this session you will learn how to do simple exercises to warm up your voice and prepare your body for toning and singing practice. You can do these exercise on a daily basis.

How Vocal Toning can deepen your practice. When we begin a practice by filling our bodies and our meditation environment with sound - our own voice, the sound of a singing bowl, gong, harmonium, or other instrument, it creates contrast with silence when the sound is gone. In this lesson we are going to tone simple sounds according to our energetic centers.

In this video you’ll learn how to make a single tone (UH) and find your own “home tone.” Music has seven tones in an octave and we have seven main chakras in our body so we have matched a tone with a chakra to help you work through this exploration. Once you have spent at least five minutes toning with the expression ‘ah’ you can move into the vowel sounds A E I O U. You will see by changing the shape of your mouth slightly, different sounds are made – slight changes in the vibration of the same tone in Carnatic classical singing the tones are named Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni and this is what we are going to use

You voice is a living instrument and because of this it is constantly changing and is affected by many things. For example your voice will sound different in the morning when you rise as to what it will at night after you have been speaking all day. This is why it is very important to develop a daily practice with your voice and to always warm up gently. In this video you’ll learn some tips on how to take care of your voice.

The word swara (meaning notes) is derived from the Sanskrit word ‘Svar’, which means sound. There are different forms of sound. But the sound which is soothing to ear and which is musical is known as swaras or sur. In this video you will practice hearing and recognizing different types of sounds. You will practice how to identify different pitches.

This is a practical video which will help you to differentiate all the 12 notes, understand the full scale. You will find out more about intervals and do some ear training exercises which will be given according to the level of complexity.

Being an ancient traditional form of Indian classical music, Carnatic music is complex but inspiring. In this video we’ll learn more about the origins of Carnatic music and singing, its composition and elements. Also we’ll learn about gamakas (linking elements) and their types.

In this video we’ll learn about different types of ragas their origin. You will learn about different musical instruments which are used by classical raga musicians. You will learn how to differentiate the main conceptions of ragas in Carnatic style.