Meribeth is offering sample CoreSinging® sessions via Skype for the first 75 people who register. The one-off fee for this is 20 chf (in other currencies it is about $22, £ 13, or €16) for fifteen minutes. In Fifteen minutes you can experience at least one astounding change in your voice. The dates of the sessions will be May 20 – June 20. Register online now to book your place.
CoreSinging® has been touring. Recent short courses in Manchester, Horsley, and Edinburgh left participants astounded with their newly found additional singing abilities.
Vocal Performance Pedagogy at its best - The Teacher Certification Course is unrivalled in its content and attention to the personal development of teachers of singing in all genres. Small, intimate courses and personal mentoring in the teaching of singing is rarely available. Teachers from Canada, the USA, Scotland, Wales and England, Brazil and Latvia have benefitted. There is currently last minute availability in May and spaces in October this year. As Betsy Blades-Skinners has said: As a "graduate" of the first US CoreSinging® workshop last year, I say RUN! Don’t walk! to sign up for this amazing, life-changing experience!
CoreSinging® will visit Fort Lauderdale, Florida with two workshops: July 6 for Voice Professionals, and July 7 for anyone interested in singing. Teachers and students gain new ways to enjoy and improve their voices on all courses. Further information on website.
CoreSinging® short courses will continue in the UK in October and November. Look on the website for the dates to be announced shortly. Topping the list are Glasgow, Birmingham and London. Autumn courses are being planned for Geneva and other cities in Europe. Meribeth will be attending the NATS Convention in Orlando and looks forward to seeing old and new friends.
Current Events of Interest
& Geneva TBA
Start planning now. There will be a wonderful residental retreat and workshop for certified teachers in the Alps of either France or Switzerland the summer of 2013. This will be limited to six participants.
Congratulations to: Cynthia Vaughn who recently returned to the 
stage as the Mother Abbess in Sound of Music; Ellie Seglimann for the success of her new choral ventures and performances with Opera Colorado; Aimee Woods on her adventurous project “Sirens & Maidens”; and Christie Connolly for the courage to change directions. Well done all of you!
More forthcoming from other teachers in the next edition of News..
“Basically, reality is neither fact nor fiction but is the emphasis we place on various parts of our stream of consciousness”. Valerie Hunt (Infinite Mind: Science of the Human Vibrations of Consciousness)
“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.” Chinese Proverb
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The User Illusion; Cutting Consciousness Down to Size by Tor Norretranders
Did you know that when you choose to do something consciously that it takes a minimum of a half a second for the reaction? That’s a bit too long for fast coloratura and taking breaths. Hmmmm. Is conscious breathing a help or a hindrance?
This book is full of fascinating research in the field of Consciousness. His chapter: Maxwell’s Me is particularly pertinent to performers. There is a discussion about I and Me (much like Eckhart Tolle) where the I is consciousness and the Me represents the vast unconsciousness and intuitive knowing. He basically states that the I practices and the Me performs. “If I does not set Me free, we get a performance riddled with vetoes. As a result the performance is uneven and lacks credibility, because no emotion appears credible if it is controlled and hampered by the consciousness. It requires trust on the part of the I. A trust that comes through practice.” This is a small sample of some very interesting writing. It is not an easy book to read, but full of useful information.
