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Ageless Voice Bootcamp

It’s not too late to join us, even though Ageless Voice Bootcamp is now in progress. Please contact Julia at julia@singerspace.com for information on how to register for our final live session (#4 on Dec. 7), and receive video access to all the prior sessions (#1-3) and video workouts (#1-4 out of 6 total) that have already been released.

Would you like to sing the way you did 10 years ago?

10 years from now, would you like to sing the way you do today?

Do you wish there were something you could do to keep your voice from aging?

As a singer, you know that your body is your instrument. And if you’ve been lucky enough to sing for many decades, you also know that as your body changes from year to year, you may experience occasional or persistent challenges or changes to your singing.

But are these challenges and changes unavoidable?

Are you at their mercy?

During our Fall seminar series, Ageless Voice Bootcamp, we will study how can you take the best possible care of your physical instrument, to ensure that your singing voice remains healthy and vibrant throughout your entire lifespan.

In fact, with the right vocal health and fitness plan, you may find that you can actually sing better now than you did 10 years ago, even if you are in your 50s, 60s, 70s, or beyond!

You’ll finish this bootcamp with clear and actionable answers to three questions that are crucial for any mature singer:

1. What happens to the singing voice as we age?

2. What types of vocal exercise prevent and reverse age-related voice changes?

3. What specific actions do I need to take to keep my voice ageless?

Topics include:

• The Ten Commandments of Vocal Health. You’ll complete an exhaustive Healthy Vocal Behaviors audit, and plan for “vocal lifestyle” changes in these ten realms where necessary.

• Use It or Lose It vocal exercise plan. You’ll learn and customize several versions of vocal exercise routines, and work to establish or reinforce good practice habits.

• Menopause and andropause. What are the potential vocal consequences of these hormonal shifts?

• Age-related voice changes, like vibrato and vocal range. You’ll learn solutions to common technical challenges, like a slower vibrato or loss of vocal range.

• What’s normal? You’ll learn to distinguish vocal symptoms that are normal and healthy vs. common but undesirable, possibly age-related vs. more likely related to vocal technique. You’ll also learn when a consultation with a medical professional is recommended.

• The Ageless Voice Mindset. How would you describe your mental, emotional, and spiritual relationship to your voice? To singing? To music? You will explore how you can adjust these attitudes and beliefs, if needed, to support your vocal longevity.

What does this experience include? 

• Four live Zoom sessions. Four 90-minute online meetings, which will include presentation, self-assessments, discussion, and master class (in two of the four sessions). All sessions will be recorded, and can be accessed through February 28, 2025 PT.

• Vocal workouts during each live session. Each Zoom session will include a minimum of 20 minutes of vocal exercise, related to the topics being covered.

• Six short vocal workout videos, released once a week during the bootcamp, that cover the six types of vocal exercise that are crucial as we age. (Singing along with a video workout 2-3 times each week is recommended.)

• Workbook. You will receive an extensive workbook (delivered in 4 parts, as a PDF document), full of research on keeping mature voices healthy, and notated vocal exercises.

• Accountability group (optional). Every participant will have the option of being assigned to a small, singer-led accountability group of 2–4 program participants who will encourage each other informally, and meet on their own time occasionally if they choose.

Ageless Voice Bootcamp is a series, and participants are registered for all four dates when they sign up.

Bootcamp Dates & Times:

Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024 10:30am–12:00pm (PT)

Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024 6:00–7:30pm (PT)

Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024 6:00–7:30pm (PT)

Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024 10:30am–12:00pm (PT)

Cost: $280 for the series

Level: All levels

Recordings available! All participants are encouraged to attend all four live events. However, recordings of our meetings will be available to all registrants through February 28, 2025 (PT).