Tongue Tension

Tongue Stretches
Out, Down, Around
Just Hold Your Tongue out with a tissue moistened for 3 minutes. Don’t pull it

Tongue Exercises
Warm Up

 Siren holding tongue. Siren waggling tongue. Don’t exceed range

 Raspberry

Isolate the tongue

 Tongue up against top teeth

 1-5 on AH

Thumb and forefinger in mouth or just forefinger. All on a 1-5 scale with Lazy Consonants

 Glay Glah Glay

 Diga Diga Dee
 Ya Ya Ya Ya, La Ga, la, La Da la
 Lee-ah-Lee-ah

Cat Hiss. Dentist Suction Sound… Feels like and EE vowel. Use and Unfinished sound

 Start with just the hiss…aim for turbulence

 Add the voice
 You must hear the air and use the finger trap
 Phase 2…add a yawn on the hiss and then repeat normal
 Variation is the Spanish ‘G’ Gorge…send the tongue further back
 Uvula Trill
 What do you notice??

Thumb, fingerTrap Other Ideas

 Ng-Ah Mark Meylan Move Around

 Tongue thrusting Shake your body/ voice
Tongue Out Stand on a chair, to feel empowered
 Bla
 Blah
 Mum
 Da

Negative Practice
Try variations of a chosen easy song with your tongue back, forward, up, flat, percussive, and see what tension
it causes..or relieves