Vocal Breathing Exercises Made Easy

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There are several vocal breathing exercises a person could do with either their body or
their voice in order to prepare for singing or public speaking.

Beginning in breathing exercises for your body there are eight steps to the first
exercise. You can by imagining your lungs as a tire around your entire body,
contracting and expanding on the sides of your torso and your back, in addition to the
front. To the count of three draw in a steady breath; wait for the count of three
thinking of your breath as suspended instead of being held. To the count of five allow
your breath to flow outward. Listen to your blowing breath and try to keep the breath
even and wait for a slow count of three. Repeat this exercise.

Another breathing exercise as you lie flat on the floor and slowly raise your right leg
to a 90 degree angle. While holding this position to the count of three, breathe in
slowly. Breathing out slowly lower your leg to the floor and then repeat the exercise
with your left leg. Raising both legs at the same time while pulling in your abdomen
will build up and tighten the muscles required for proper breathing. Repeat this
exercise five times with each leg and then with both legs.

Another set of breathing exercises has someone standing on the floor bending over at
the hips, not the waist to keep the spine straight and be sure not to lock your knees
allowing them to soften with a slight bend. Feel your arms, body and face relax,
become like a rag doll. Inhale so that you may feel an expansion in your lower body,
your thighs and low back. Now stand up placing your hands on opposite shoulders
crisscrossing your arms being careful not to lock your knees or tense up. Relax the
pelvic muscles and your stomach; breathe in feeling this same lower body expansions
however do not move your shoulders. Repeat these movements slowly 10 times.

A few vocal exercises one can do to help their breathing before singing or public
speaking include saying the following with the vowels in an Italian manner say la and
le (saying la rather than la-uh and le rather than lay-ee ). Join the vowels e and a
together with an I in an arc of sound while flicking your tongue briskly in order to
make the I sound as short as possible.

Another helpful vocal exercise to help with breathing is to say the Italian vowels a, e,
i, o, u, prefixed by the lips constant m. There are many Internet sites with
pronunciation keys that will pronounce vowels sounds in Italian so that one will
become familiar with the sounds and be able to pronounce them on their own.
Another helpful hint is to spring your lips apart in order to allow the right vowel
sound to be projected and flow while producing the correct m sound. Always keep the
flow of your breath constant throughout these vocal exercises.