Linklater voice

Level 1 workshop

Saturday and Sunday

June 29-30, 12:00 - 5:00 pm

Kitchener, ON

Level One will be an introduction to the Linklater Voice Work or a refresher for those who have already had Linklater classes.  This workshop will help you free your breath, develop resonance, loosen jaw and tongue tensions and wake up your vocal range. No previous experience is required.

Relaxation and release is essential to opening, freeing and ultimately strengthening your voice.  In this initial workshop, you are becoming aware of how your voice and body carry habitual tensions and beginning to undo them. This is the start to freeing your breath and vibrations of sound.  As your voice begins to loosen up, the next step is to develop resonance by sensing and spreading the vibrations through the bony hollows of your body.  Once this connection is established we can move onto addressing deep tensions that develop in the jaw, larynx, and tongue and encourage your sigh to find a free and focused pathway beyond those tensions that filter your message.  By giving your sigh of sound a clear passageway from the lower body all the way up through the mouth, you will be ready to begin to strengthen the voice and activate more expressiveness with the resonating ladder.  In Voice Level 1 you will contact the chest, the mouth, and the teeth resonators and blend to find a warm, relaxed and focused connection between your thoughts, feelings and your voice. 

Freeing the natural voice

This ground-breaking method was developed by Kristin Linklater to provide actors with the tools to explore freedom and authenticity within human vocal expression. It is taught in top theatre schools and conservatories around the world and is considered one of the most effective and trusted voice methods for actors to date. “The voice runs on emotion and free breath”. Kristin Linklater

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If you are interested in learning more about how you can free your voice, contact Amanda Brunk, Designated Linklater Teacher, to request information about private and group coaching and upcoming workshops.

Freeing your natural “belt”

As a singing voice specialist and vocologist, Amanda is unceasingly curious about how “the work” can influence the freedom of the singing voice. This is especially exciting when working in contemporary commercial music and vocal styles. Whether you identify as a singer-actor or an actor-singer, this progression can be adapted for your experience.