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What if the body already knows the way? This was the question that concluded the previous thought. It touches on something that has accompanied me throughout many years of working with the voice: our bodies possess abilities that do not wait for us to explain them or consciously control them. We breathe. We swallow. We find our balance. We respond to touch, movement, closeness and distance. Much of this happens before we even think about it. The voice, too, emerges from such

There are moments in singing that are difficult to explain. Sometimes they last only a few seconds. Suddenly, something feels different. The breath flows. The body carries. The voice unfolds without the sense that we have to produce it. And for a moment, something disappears that so often accompanies us when we sing: the idea that we have to do everything ourselves. Many singers know this state. We often call it FLOW. Yet whatever we choose to call it, something essential bec

“Just let go.” Most of us have heard these words at some point. And almost always they leave us with the same question: How? How do we let go of our thoughts? How do we let go of tension? How do we let go of fear? The harder we try to let go, the more firmly we often seem to hold on. Because letting go is not a technique. It is not another item on a checklist. It is not a skill that can simply be practised. Over many years, my students surprised me again and again. Whenever a

Sometimes something remarkable happens. The more important a moment becomes to us, the narrower everything feels inside. Our breathing loses its spaciousness. The body begins to tense. The throat tightens. The voice becomes smaller – or it begins to struggle. We call it stage fright. But perhaps what is happening begins much earlier. Perhaps fear is not the beginning. Perhaps it is the consequence. The German language preserves a remarkable insight: Angst kommt von Enge. (Fea