I’m very grateful for this nuanced account of the way the spine (cervical!) stabilizes our breathing!

Subtle approach of "raising the soft palate". Thank you!

Ma'am you so beautiful I'm from Malaysia ❤

This is my first time hearing about the beanbag trick. I’m excited to play around with this! I read your weekly email about prosody and realized maybe I do need to take a step back and read out the song first. I think by doing this I can find my beanbag words better too. Thank you Laura!!!

Fantastic video!!!!

excellent exercise, thank you so much

I've been worried about jaw tension recently, mainly in longer arias. Your videos are a gift. Thank you so much. I am officially a fan;-)))

This is hugely helpful. Love the hand gesture with the vowel exercise.

Thank you -- ahh felt so good to feel the ribcage move like that while the chest felt all big and open and relaxed 😍

Great exercise and so funny too! Thank you very much!

Thank you very much , your exercises and your channel are really great and very helpful! I was always told that my voice is a little far back so would this exercise be good for me or would the 'n' or another consonant be better? Thank's again for the amazing content!

Crazy but it worked. Now to build up the feeling of the palate stretching without the tongue. Good exercise!

Approximately Approximately how long does it take to learn raising and lowering the soft palate ? Please let me know . Your answer will be accepted as an approximation not as an iron clad definitive answer so please don't worry about that . I have been following your advice on exercises for raising the soft palate for the last 2 weeks without achieving even the slightest twitch of the soft palate , so please do comment on this aspect of how long does it take to learn raising and lowering the soft palate . Rafi Rashid .

You can use both right yawn and bite , can you?

Can you do a video about vowel modifications? Thank you!

The 1:30 "EEEEEEE" fucking ruined me, that was about the funniest thing I've ever seen a person do. Loving your video!

Can you Do That FROM LOW TO HIGH❤PLEASE & THANK YOU

8 LALA, thanks ❤Good job

This is wonderful! I’ve been overcomplicating this process for so long. Thank you for sharing this!

Oh wow this is spectacular! I have tried versions of this in the past but never with the emphasis on vocalizing after the movement. It makes the WORLD of a difference. Thanks so much! 💕

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Thanks so much!

I don't know why your channel still doent have million subs, you are freaking amazing, thanks a lot

Thank you so much, your channel is awesome!

I got it to work about 5 times while watching your video, but not consistently. I'll keep working on it. Thank you!!

Amazing! Soooooo helpful! Thank you!

spectacularly helpful! thanks so much!

My GOODNESS. I have absolutely never heard vowels broken down in such a technical but easily understandable way before. I am the type who really needs this sort of specific instruction so this was really helpful! Thank you so so so much!

I think I somehow like this one better than the NG sound. It just seems to work better for my voice and where its at right now i think. Thanks again!

I’ve have been plagued with issues regarding both my singing AND speaking due to trauma and working out of it has been such a struggle. That sovt really helps me out quite a bit in terms of support so thanks so much!

Does lowered soft palate blocked the air passage?

It seems like no matter how much I do this, my voice still cracks. Any tips?

Hi I have to do myofunctional therapy for TMD and this video really helped my singing so much. Can you teach more tongue extension singing practice like this? thank you

Have you a video dedicated to Tuck Forward? So the soft palate is forward not the typical yawn method that darkens the tone.

Wonderful explanation, thank you

this is incredibly helpful Laura!

a lot of really great information here. thanks for sharing.

And singing covers only

But through improvison

Is it possible to improve without vocal exercises?

Love putting the h before the ng

This is good but since I play an instrument while I sing I can not move around like this. Maybe good for practicing just the singing parts at home. Thanks.

Super helpful! Thank you.

Great video. About tea; since I tend to be tense, chamomile tea helps me to relax and sing better.

This is great. I am really starting to learn the importance of awareness. I will be coming back to see if I can perfect this. I hope when I start working again to make sure to compensate you for these great exercises. Thank you Laura!

That was great. I am now more aware that I am stiff when trying to do this in rhythm. This will be great to work with. Thank you!

How can you keep the soft pallet lifted through the song phases because sometimes it feels like it lifts at the beginning and feels like it drops during/in the middle of the phrase especially if you are having a lot of consonants on the phrase...?

Thank you so much

How did you find all of these tricks!? I’ve been trying for years trying to work with my soft palette issues but these all work so well I could cry! 😭 Due to my own personal trauma, despite working on my technique for years, I still have issues letting my voice out even with speaking and singing and addressing this has helped considerably to get beyond the “block”! Can’t thank you enough! 😭💕💗