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VOICE mentors the self-examination of your voice and the related emotional processes. Once you get to know yourself, become increasingly self-aware and acknowledge your vulnerabilities as well as your talents, your voice and your message will become more powerful. As a result, you will build self-confidence, express yourself better and be heard. Do you experience your voice as a limitation or a blockage? Do you feel that you are not always being heard? Does your voice change according to the situation you're in? This book provides an answer to why your voice doesn't always seem to be in your control. Voice coach Laura Stavinoha struggled with stage fright from the age of fourteen. In this superb book she shares with you the knowledge she gained in the field of vocal development. She explains her own experiences and those of her clients within two theoretical frameworks: the polyvagal theory and the theory of positive disintegration. The exercises she offers are practical, down to earth, and will contribute to your personal development. Laura has found her voice, and offers you a guide to do the same.

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This book is an eye opener for everybody who works with the voice. Likewise for people who want to learn more about their voice, those who speak for a living, and for voice coaches who guide professionals to increase their vocal possibilities. What makes it different from other books? Stavinoha maps out the inner factors which take influence on the voice and make it sound as it does, especially during stress situations. By including her own journey, it becomes very personal and 'breathes' both experience and expertise. It's clear, accessible, profoundly researched and combines abstract definition with practical hands-on application how to implement the insights. Especially the explanation of the overexcitabilities bridge the gap why working with the voice is more than just exercising to change vocal habits. I have been coaching leaders of corporate companies for over eleven years on their vocal skills and physical presence. VOICE has put the dots on the I for me. Read it. -Claudia Kratzheller, coach for embodied presence, public speaker and holistic health practitioner I am so excited for the world to have this gem! What a unique 360-degree picture of the singing voice from this scholar of a woman on the subject. There is NOTHING out there like this to date, and this book has a chance of going down in time being used by universities and vocal students everywhere. This is the first of its kind with new research that has not been talked about anywhere else. If you're a singer of any kind or singer curious but shy, this book is for you. Stavinoha offers us a new perspective on speaking and singing, with as added bonus an emphasis on being an overall good human-something our society desperately needs right now. -Jennifer Zuiff, recording artist, holistic vocal coach and creator of Conscious Singing & Vocal Tribe Stavinoha brings together various facets of growth, translating them into practical exercises. This book has enormous value, reaching far beyond the music world. As a therapist and trainer, it is a pleasure to read and use the exercises-for myself, in treatments and in trainings. -Lia Jaeqx - van Tienen, nurse practitioner mental health and therapist A journey that guides you from unconscious voice habit to conscious use of the voice. You'll learn to play your voice purposefully, as a musical instrument, with clear effect on yourself and your listeners. Many people who work with their voice will be inspired by this. -Cees Manintveld, founder of MultiVoice International Voice Agency

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My name is Laura Stavinoha, and at the moment I work as a musician, performer, writer, producer and coach, with the voice at center. I have a university master's degree in musicology, a minor in private law and I am trained as a classical singer. After my education, I took on various professional identities: project manager, business manager, copywriter and booking agent for a voice agency. All these previous experiences turned out to be the perfect preparation for what I love doing most: coaching people with their voice, and expressing my own creativity through making music.As a vocalist, I've been involved in many styles: from classical to house music and from experimental to my own pop songs. In recent years I have performed a lot abroad, and released several EPs with my own compositions, which you can find on www.laurastavinoha.com. With my live looping program I have played several concert tours through Mexico and California. For years, I have studied the spoken and unspoken rules of various music styles and singing traditions, to conclude that I no longer want to conform to certain styles or singing traditions. For myself �nd for the people I coach, I aspire for an authentic, intuitive speaking or singing voice that communicates from the heart.As a voice coach, I not only have a lot of knowledge about the voice as an instrument, but I also use behavioral therapy and personality theories to put voice coaching in a broader context. The voice is one of the most direct ways to to communicate and to express yourself creatively and emotionally. Genuinely connecting with others gives me a lot of energy. I experience working with people from this same principle as creative and meaningful. Creating awareness and connection through the voice; that is what I want to contribute to this world. More on my work as a voice coach you can find at www.useyourvoice.nl

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