WOW have these two men wonderfully/significantly altered my singing and every aspect of my life. For those unawares of the powers of finely tuned kinesthesia, I wholeheartedly recommend picking up these two texts:
_Freeing the Natural Voice_ by Kristin Linklater (Drama Book Publishers, NY, 1976) It's primarily a book for actors but BOY was/is it useful to me as a singer/teacher. Her ideas are mighty Feldenkrais-based.
_What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body -- The Practical Application of Body Mapping and the Alexander Technique to Making Music_ by Barbara Conable. (Andover Press, OH, 1998) I show pages of this playful, illustration-laden, clear, powerful text to students SEVERAL times daily; I shudder to think that I taught for a year without this knowledge. (Conable's book _How to Learn the Alexander Technique_ is also fabulously accessible/applicable to singing.)
Somatics Rule! DKL
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