{"id":82045,"date":"2015-12-12T18:57:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T02:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=82045"},"modified":"2015-12-12T18:57:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T02:57:11","slug":"the-top-5-breathing-myths-for-singersdebunked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=82045","title":{"rendered":"The Top 5 Breathing Myths for Singers\u2026Debunked!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.totalvocalfreedom.com\/top-5-breathing-myths-singers-debunked\/\">Peter Jacobson writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Reality: It is anatomically impossible to breath into your belly! While many teachers offer this instruction as a metaphor to avoid shallow breathing or shoulder raising, students often take it literally which creates a downward pull in the torso and puts unnecessary pressure on the spine and entire vocal mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>Solution: Update your breathing with an anatomically-accurate map based on your natural design.<\/p>\n<p>MYTH #2: In order to sing, you must deliberately \u2018take\u2019 a breath<\/p>\n<p>Reality: Deliberately \u2018taking\u2019 a breath creates excess tension and rigidity by interfering with the natural elasticity of your torso. You function most efficiently when you \u2018allow\u2019 or \u2018let\u2019 for a breath. Have you ever noticed how, at the end of a phrase, the air rushes back into your lungs naturally without effort? That\u2019s because the breathing process starts with an exhale. The inhale will happen effortlessly if you \u2018let\u2019 it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Jacobson writes: Reality: It is anatomically impossible to breath into your belly! While many teachers offer this instruction as a metaphor to avoid shallow breathing or shoulder raising, students often take it literally which creates a downward pull in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=82045\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexander-technique"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82046,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82045\/revisions\/82046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}