Voice

Why are the recorded exercises important for your vocal development? Personally important?

1) Ankle rotations - Ankle rotations help to release tension from your ankles, up to the small of your back and your neck.This is very important, since you will be more grounded if your legs and lower spine are relaxed and free of tension. Also, if your spine is free of tension then that lessens the risk of straining your body as you sing, and makes breathing techniques easier. I find this personally important since I carry a lot of my tension in my lower back and legs.

This is a video of Michelle doing the exercise, it visibly shows the steps and if you do this exercise just once or twice a day in your spare time then you will make significant progress.

2) Sun Salutation/Surya Namaskara - Sun Salutation is incredibly beneficial due to the fact that it not only focuses and grounds you, making you prepared and ready to perform, but it also stretches more or less every part of your body. If your body is stretched and relaxed then singing becomes far easier and you will find yourself more awake and ready to perform at your best.

What do you want to improve on? Take from list.

I'd like to work on the tension in my lower back, which I find constricts my lower diaphragm and makes singing and breathing exercises more difficult. So I'd like to start doing spinal peels more, since this not only releases tension in the spine but it also increases flexibility.