Caroline Goyder

Often when directors are working with actors, they'll say, move the thought, let the thought move you across the stage because it shows that you're changing your thinking.

So maybe I've made my point and now I want to move it on.

If I move to another point in the stage, the audience kind of follow me in thinking.

So it's a way to move ideas on for you and for the people listening.

And it's really different to the Tony Robbins school, but it can be really powerful.

Oh, gosh.

I mean, I was told, you know, way back when your voice is thin, you have no resonance.

And I just thought, oh, it's never going to change.

And all I can say is that I've spent the last 10, 15 years doing five minutes of

of humming, chanting, singing every day.

And if you just spend five minutes singing in the morning, your voice will naturally start to have more projection and more resonance.

But if you're on a stage and you're worried that you don't have enough power, first thing to think about is ground.

Get your feet really planted.

Then think posture, get your spine aligned.

So make sure that everything is lined up properly as if you're in a Pilates class or standing against a wall and you're not doing text neck because when we stick our heads forward, it's really difficult to project.

Then think about sending the voice from the tummy.

You know, if you think about where you laugh from or yawn from, that kind of big yawn or big deep laugh that you do with friends, it comes from your lower torso.

We don't speak from the throat.

That's just the channel.

The power is the belly.