A powerful voice is one of the most valuable tools to achieving success in the workplace – it lets people know where you stand, throws your ideas into the mix, drives collaboration and much more. Oftentimes however, showing up on a call, to the table or to the stage with a confident and powerful voice can feel difficult.
During this call Heather Lyle, will share insights from her combined training in singing, theatre voice, yoga therapy, human anatomy, and vocology. She’ll help us understand on a biological level, what happens to the voice when it shuts down and provide tools and techniques to dial it back up.
You’ll learn:
The core elements that cause the voice to shut down (emotional experiences, trauma and social pressures).
Tools and techniques to overcome the unconscious (and limiting) reactions of the “fight or flight” response on the voice.
Insights and exercises to strengthen your voice through breathwork
Who should attend: This talk will benefit women who desire a stronger voice and whose voice shuts down during moments of stress. In the workplace stress could be – responding to an emotional colleague, speaking in front of an audience, engaging in a difficult conversation, etc. If you find yourself often wishing you had spoken up or did something different vocally this talk is for you.
Meet our Speaker:
Heather Lyle: NCVS Vocologist, B.M., M.M., F.V., E-RYT, C.Ht. Lyle is the author of Vocal Yoga, the Joy of Breathing, Singing and Sounding and a contributing author to The Voice Teacher’s Cookbook. Lyle is considered one of the leading voice teachers in Los Angeles for singers, actors and public speakers. She is a dedicated educator who received her bachelor’s and master degree’s in voice, specializing in singing, diction and speech science. A winner of the Sally Casanova Doctoral Scholarship, Lyle completed doctoral voice research and a doctoral internship in vocal pedagogy at the Indiana University School of Music under the tutelage of renown voice teacher Paul Kiesgen in 2000. In 2006 Lyle became a Certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, and has taught in the Fitzmaurice Teacher Certification Program. In January 2017, Lyle and Catherine Fitzmaurice took 28 people to India to teach Vocal Yoga® and Fitzmaurice Voicework® in the UNESCO site Auroville, India. In summer 2017 Lyle graduated from the National Center of Voice and Speech's Vocology Program with voice scientist Ingo Titze and received a certificate in Vocology. In 2015 she studied at NYU Medical Center with Swedish voice scientist Johan Sundberg and Dr. Brian Gill receiving a certificate in voice science/vocal pedagogy.
In addition to operating a busy private L.A. studio, Lyle has taught singing, vocal technique and Vocal Yoga® for the University of Southern California's School of Dramatic Arts (USC), Santa Monica College, the UCLA Anderson School of Management, Mt Saint Mary’s College, Loyola Marymount University, LA Mission College, the Los Angeles High School for the Arts, Studio 5 in New York, The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Loreto College, Probir Guha's acclaimed “Alternative Living Theatre” and Indian Idol Academy in Kolkata. Lyle is also a certified yoga teacher and the founder of her patented Vocal Yoga Method®, a voice work synthesizing techniques from Yoga, Pranayama, Alexander Technique, Physical Therapy, Roy Hart, the Bel Canto School of Singing, Qi Gong, kirtan chanting, primal voice work, circle singing and voice science to free the voice. Lyle began her practice of yoga at age 14 through the influence of her father, yoga teacher Auro Arindam. She has been a life long student of Integral Yoga and a devotee of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
