Singing for Self-Soothing - Awaken Your Natural Voice

1. Introduction: Hello and welcome to my class, singing for self soothing, awaken your natural voice. In this class, we're going to relax your body and mind to get ready to sing. We're going to practice warm ups so we can get used to the sound of our own voice and warm up our lovely vocal cords. And then we are going to learn a simple folk song together. And to finish, we will perform our folks on to the most loving, accepting, and compression audience that there is Mother Nature. Hello, my name is Laura Lee and I'm a folk singer and artist, and I've been performing and recording music for over 10 years. When I first started music, I started with spoken word poetry and wrap, wrapping over music. But I always had this secret desire to sing. But when I tried, it sounded horrible and actually hurt. My vocal cords was so tight, tense, and stressed, but I actually couldn't sing. But the desire was really strong. I was so desperate. So I went on this long healing journey to heal my voice and with it also my mind and my body. And since then I've recorded and released two albums and my last one made it into the top 20 of the UK folk album charts. Who's this class for? This class is aimed for beginners. So if you've been nurturing a quiet desire to sing, this course is for you. Whether it's because you want to perform eventually, or whether it's gives you wanted to sing in the car, in the shower, either a welcome. Also, maybe you're a more experienced singer, but want to find a more relaxed and natural way to sing, then this class is for you to, by the end of this course, you will have cracked open the door into the world of folk singing. You will start to develop a relationship with your own voice and drop all the tension and shame that you carry around your voice. Practice makes progress. Like with all creative endeavors, the more time we put in, the more we get out. So this class encourages you to start your own daily or weekly singing practice so you can continue your singing journey. Continue enjoying your voice and watch it improve over time. Okay, I'll see you in class. Bye. 2. Getting Started: Welcome, thank you so much for joining in with this class. Let's get started. So first of all, a little bit about my philosophy around singing. I believe that we can all sing and that singing is a central part of community. It's a way of connecting and it's a way of celebrating. All the way to Peru where they sing. It grows in healing plant medicines, ceremonies. To the Far East where they sing Buddhist chance for meditation to right here in England, or maybe wherever you are, where we sing happy birthday when it's someone's birthday. Since the dawning of pop culture and pop music and recorded music, things have changed a bit and now music experience is a bit more passive. We are listening to and receiving music, were expected to watch and enjoy it, but not really get involved ourselves. There's seemed to have developed some kind of standard around singing and that you, that you can't, you can't sing if you're not good enough. Which to me is completely ridiculous. If you meet a friend for coffee and you have a nice chat, you wouldn't come home and say, or Victoria can't talk because you weren't maybe you didn't like her accent or you didn't like some of the things you could she said, but you were just it was a way of communicating and that's how singing originally was. It was in the home, in the community. It was a way of connecting. And I'll talk about because of this standard with recording music, a lot of people in their childhood get shamed out of singing. I remember joining the school choir when I was about ten years old at primary school. Very strict schoolteacher. When we're singing, scanned everyone over and said somebody is singing out of tune and glared at me. And I felt my whole world crumble. And I think that was the beginning of my voice shouting down, maybe you've experienced something like that to in this course, we're going to reverse all of that, reverse the damage that's been done, and start to reconnect to our authentic voice. And we're going to bring singing home where it belongs right now, let's get into what you need. So the amazing thing about singing is you don't need any expensive equipment bought. There are still a few things that you'll need and those things are time, space and a good attitude. So starting with number one time. So I don't believe in talent, I believe in practice and being committed and being regular with that practice. So if you are going to be a friend, you might call them Leah. Yes, I'd love to meet you for t Let's meet at three o'clock on Tuesday. Okay. Great. I'll see you then. And if somebody else asks you to do something, you say, oh sorry, I'm meeting my friend Julia at three o'clock then. So I can't make it. And that's what we want to get around all singing songs, sort of boundaries. So we say, Okay, this is what I'm singing and nothing else is getting in the way so that we actually put the time in, pause the video and decide when you are going to seeing and what's realistic for you. A little extra note here. Don't make it really ambitious or over the top. You might want to sing for an hour a day, but it might just be a bit too much and end up being such a big ask that you end up feeling overwhelmed and don't do it. So the best thing to do is book the smallest amount of time that that will start to make a difference. So say ten minutes a day and then slowly let that expand. Or it might be it might not be every day, it might be every, you know, twice a week. Book The days I count gonna sing on a Tuesday and Thursday. Okay, So we've booked in some time. And now second we're going to move into is space. We need a private space when nobody else can hear us and what we're not going to be interrupted. So for me, I live in England in a very old house with very, very thin walls, were next door neighbor probably heard me knocking like that and my family can hear me in the kitchen, in the bedroom. It spreads out through this house so I don't have any privacy here. You might be the same. If that's the case, then I recommend going out in nature, which is a wonderful place to sing. Maybe you can go and sing in your garden or there's a private spot in nature that you can go and sing. Okay, So we've got time, we've got space. And then the third one is a good attitude. I'd like you to bring some curiosity and open-mindedness to this class. If we imagine two different kinds of people, we've got this person here and they say, I can't sing. There's no point. I've never been any good or not even going to try. Or somebody says, I can't sing. But I really want to. Maybe I could, might be, it might be that difficult, but maybe I can give it a try. Which person do you think it's going to succeed? I want more people like this. So if you're like this, you're in the right place. And then with that good attitude as well, I want some reverence and respect for yourself. And that is by being kind. Like I said earlier in the video, many of us have been shamed or embarrassed for our voice. And then what ends up happening is we internalize it and we start to be really mean to ourselves and say horrible things. We're going to drop that for this class. We might notice that the mind starts saying horrible things about them, but we're just going to drop it and put it down while we enjoy this class and start to sing together. Okay, So we've got time, space, a good attitude, and then an extra bonus thing that you might want to bring along is a journal because singing will take you on a healing journey. And maybe you want to make some notes about things you notice about yourself or things you learn. Okay, So we've got everything we need. Now let's get into the structure of this course. In the following lessons, we are going to learn about ritual and relaxation and why they are important when we prepare to sing. And then we're going to have some practices that we do. We're going to do what I call an opening space practice, which is a meditation to get ready to sing. And then some vocal warm-ups. You might like to include those two videos in your regular singing practice. Then we're going to learn a song by ear. And once we've learned the song, we're going to perform it in nature and then wrap up and close the course with some goodbyes. Okay, so let's get stuck in. 3. Ritual and Relaxation: Welcome back. In this class, we're going to talk about ritual and relaxation and why they're important when we get prepared to sing. So you probably have some rituals in your life without realizing it. Maybe you wake up in the morning and make yourself a coffee. Maybe you go out to work and you leave your front door and then walk into the door of your office. Or maybe you like to go running. And when you go running, you put on your running shoes. These little things that we do, let our brain, body, mind know that we are about to go into something. And it's good to be intentional about that. So with our singing, what could you do to prepare to make your space welcoming? Here's some ideas. I like to burn a candle or maybe burn some hubs or incense of the room smells nice or making noise hopped cozy, drink like a ginger tea to take in with me while I'm singing. If you're outside, it might just be finding that little spot that you like to sing in and arriving there. And then another part of that ritual that we can do is our opening space meditation. That's going to be in the following lesson where we will relax. And that is the second thing that's really important with singing is relaxation. If you've ever experienced anxiety, that feeling where it's like fight, fight or flight mode, stress. It's so horrible. It causes a series of physical reactions in our body that are really not nice and not good for singing. So think racing mind, sweaty palms, your heart racing, your stomach, tense and knot in your stomach, your, your chest or tense. All those things are really not a good way for our body to be when we sing. And then we can also think another state that we can get ourselves in is shame. So I talked earlier before about shamed up, being shamed out of the choir. And that physically is shoulders dropped, head hanging low, and this feeling of closing down. I have named these two things, this combination, stress and shame shut down. And when I look back at when I first started singing, that is why I couldn't single, so stressed and so ashamed, there was nothing that could come out. I remember when I first went on this journey to start singing. And I had some private lessons with an opera singer. And the volume she could make was quite astounding. If you're in the room with her, it almost gives you a headache, how loud she could be. And in all singing lessons she used to say to me, sing louder, sing louder, sing louder. And I was already so embarrassed and so timid about my voice. And when she asked me to sing louder, It just made me shut down even more, Was get smaller and smaller. So in this class, if anything, I'm going to say seeing quieter signal gently because I'm sure like me, you've experienced anxiety and stress in the past. And the whole point of this style of singing is to bring deep relaxation on to relax and enjoy your voice. This process of learning to sing is maybe different to our approach to life. We're not trying to rush ahead. We're not trying to get anywhere. It's like planting a seed, watching a little flower grow and then watching the flower bloom. Okay, so now we know why ritual and relaxation are important. Let's get into our relaxation practice. 4. Opening Space: Welcome back. In this video, we're going to get the body and mind prepared to say, first of all, let's get ourselves comfortable. If you're outside, there might not be somewhere you can sit. In that case, plot your feet firmly on the ground and stand up tall. You might be indoors like me. And if so, you could sit on a chair like this with a nice straight spine or maybe with your legs crossed or your legs tops onto your knees, whichever is most comfortable for you. Okay, let's get started. First of all, we're going to do some deep breathing together. And what we're going to do is we're going to breathe in for three and breathe out for six. And let's take our hands and put our hands on our lowest red fill with that lowest rib is. And just take one breath into that lowest rib. So you can feel us like. And for these deep breaths, that's where I want you to focus, focus on expanding your lower ribs. You might like to close your eyes and I'm going to count us together. First of all, breathing out, breathing in 23 out, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 in 2, 3 out, 23456 into three out 23456. And now we're going to do short body scan to bring the mind and body into this space. Starting with our fingertips going to bring awareness to the top of the head. Bringing awareness to the scout and letting the scalp relax. Coming down to the forehead, fingertips gently on the forehead. Forehead relaxed. With every out-breath, letting the muscles relax down to the eyes. And the corners of the eyes. Letting the eyes relaxed. Arriving here. Giving the temples little Rob. Taking a few deep breaths as you robot temples down to the cheeks. And then very important point for relaxation is the jaw. The jaw is often where we hold a lot of tension to invite you to keep that tight jaw muscle a little rub. And your jaw hanging open, your mouth wide open to you. Hanging open slightly. Hundreds with each breath, relaxing the jaw and giving the door good rope. Coming down to the neck. I think that relaxation from the tool come down to the neck giving the neck little rub. Getting into any tight spots or not some of the neck. Bringing that all the way down to the tops of the shoulders, giving the tops of the shoulders nice Rob again, are there any not sag getting them a good Drop? The shoulders, relax. And then we're going to rest our hands gently and our lap and travel through the rest of the body. So we're going to come to our right shoulder. Breathing and relaxing the right shoulder. The top of the right arm. With every breath relaxing and arriving. All right. Elbow, our lower right arm, and our right-hand. Bringing presence and awareness to our right-hand. How does the palm of our right-hand feel? Is it hot? Is it cold? Can you feel any tingling? Sensations are there. In the palm of your right-hand? And the left-hand side to the top of the left on the left elbow, the lower part of the left arm, and the left hand. Can you feel the palm of the left-hand? What sensations are there? Any temperature, any tingling? Coming back to the center of the body, checking in with the jaw. The jaw still relaxed. Harnessing that spread down to the ribs to hand deep breath into the ribs. Down to the belly, letting the belly relax. Our right hip. Flexing the right hip. The top of the right leg. The right knee. The right cough. The right foot. Can you feel the sole of your right foot in your SOC? There any other sensations in the sole of your right foot? Now the left side, the left hip, top of the left leg, the left knee, and left calf. And the left but the sole of the left foot. Well, sensations Can you feel can you feel your foot on the floor, your foot in the Salk. Just checking in with that Jorgen letting the jaw relax. K So we've traveled all the way from the top of our head down to the soles of our feet. Noticing now that presence and awareness that exists within us. Does it have a color? Taking a few moments to really relax and enjoy this quiet presence. Keeping the jaw relaxed. So we're going to wrap our palms together. Palms over our belly. How does our body field today? We feel energized, we feel tired. We go any aches or pains. Taking a moment to notice how the body is today. Given the palms and the hands on the heart, How are we feeling today? If we got any anger or upset, we've been encouraging your content. How are we feeling today? All it's welcome. Rubbing their hands together again, and finally, hands on the head. How's our mind today? We clear and focused. We busy and overwhelmed. What's going on with the mind today. Giving their homes one last final graph. Given the real rock gets some heat. Hands over the eyes. Enjoy that. And your eyes. And then slowly back to your eyes open and peel your hands away. And then just to wake ourselves off after that relaxations. And over here we're just gonna do a few taps. So tacking up and down one arm, tapping up and down the other arm, talking down the chest and the legs and give a little shake. During our relaxation, we took a moment to notice how our body, our heart, and our mind is feeling. You might like to write that down in your journal so you get a bit of a picture of how you are today as we prepare to sing. Okay, In the next lesson, we're going to do some vocal warm-ups to get ready to learn our song. See you in the next lesson. 5. Vocal Warm Ups: Welcome back. In this lesson, we are going to warm up the voice and we're going to start with a little bit more breathing, with some controlled breathing where we engage our diaphragm. So what we're going to do is going to place our hand just above our belly button. If you call her, she fell it move. And what we're going to do is we're going to breathe in, take a deep breath in, expanding our ribs out sideways as we did before. And then we're going to breathe out with it's when you breathe out, feel that muscle on the hearing age. So a quick breath and breathing in. And then let's breathe. So with our current here, we're going to take a deep breath in and then breathe out and hold as long as we can. So let's do it together. Breath then. Could you do it long as me Let's do one more together. Breathing in, making sure our shoulders don't tense off and just staying relaxed down here as we do these exercises, we're gonna do some sirens, so it's like this. So we start low. Together. You on your own. Lovely, well done. And now let's do that with some different sounds we're going to do. Say down here. When we come down, we can go as low as we can and click event. Let's have a go. There, we go. Notice if there's any, any crackling or tension in your voices, you may have three, the SFU listen, I think at the top of my range you here to have croaking or of Coloborhynchus will phrase so we start the bottom. E, e, e to the 0. A few shoulder rolls. Yes. When we seeing we're seeing with our whole body. And now we're going to make some long drone sounds and just notice where we can feel them in the body. So we're going to start, we're gonna go through the vowel sounds, AEIOU. And I invite you to close your eyes when you sing it and notice where you can feel it. Can you fit in your head, in your chest and your feet? Whereas that sound, so we'll start on a jet, have to sing the same as me. If you like task area, you can sing higher. Whichever you fail. Breathing out. Breathing in, breathing out. Breathing in to begin. In sea, keeping your eyes closed and noticing where you can fail is if you meet a sound with hay in the chest, you might want to pause the video and do each one of these on your own after you hear it with me. So you can just hear the sound without, without the video and just really feel where that sound is in the body. So let's go through the other vowel sounds. So E Next, taking a deep breath in EBI to the e sound for me was much more up here in my nose and my throat. Where was it for you? Again, these are all things that you could write down in your journal if you want to make a note, a, E, I, O, U, by thin. You, I've heard fugitives in there that was just me relaxed muscle this because I noticed that will happen to us. Tension in the jaw and the shoulders clenching up. So really keeping everything relaxed as we make those sounds and paying attention to where we can feel it. So we've done a, e, I, o, say Oh For little critical there, but this video is not about judgment, is about noticing. So on that note, I had a little bit for crackle. That's okay. Just paying attention to where my voice has gotten intention. Okay. There's a bit of tension that today, Let's move on. A e, I, o, ou, a scope really apply f2. So breath in WACC, would you feel about one making a mental note of that and paying attention to where each sound resonates. And you might like to go through and do those sounds on your own as a e, I, o. Again on your own with your eyes closed and go through it once nursing where in the body. And then go through it again, they're just seeing in this space, how can you feel it in the space? Does it feel like it's bouncing off this wall? Does it feel like it's traveling out an op your head, experiencing your voice from within. I'm feeling it, how it fills the space, whether you're outside and you're like, Whoa, it really feels like it's going down into the ground or feels like it's going up into the sky. A, e, I, o, oo in the body and in the space. Now we're going to notice some of the resonating chambers in our head and neck with ink. So we're going to start with a uw. And u. Your lips will think when you do this, they should be so tingly that it's almost irritating the world. Feels HE. So let's try it together. Breathing and you might want to try different notes as well. So if you're singing the note, I am and it's, you're not really getting the tingling. Might want to move it up so deep breath in. Maybe less than the jaw. Relax as well. We'll try bit higher. Did you get to that tingly feeling in your labs? So now we're done. Now we're going to assume that the latter end of your tongue should talk The, should touch the top of the review mouth and you feel it in your nose. You can put your fingers on your nose and feel the bridge of your nose vibrating. So deep breath in. Can you feel that? And you'll notice moment about bit higher or lower. Let's mask Aha. And why can really feel it when it's high. Then the last one to G, I'm going to fill out in the throat. Can you feel that? And then we're going to try a few times where we move that to know. So making sure again, relax shoulders, relax Joel, deep breath in. I know. It's interesting to feel where the voice moves around your head and around your throat. And the final exercise before we do a little warm-up song is going to be glottal stops. So these, these really helped me improve the breathiness and my voice has an example. Let's pick a and we're going to sing a as breathy as we can, like this. Hey, can you do that together? And then we're going to feel overcome quotes, closing. I've heard it called a glottal stop. So it's like this. A, we can move from breathy a, a, a breathy a plagiarize can feel that like a full stop. Or period, as he said in America. A, a, a, Let's try it. One, ie, really breathy. And closing off. A breathy. Then e, e, e. Now we've got closed feeling. Let's try and sing those notes closed. So what you can do is you can do the glottal stop and then continue the night side. This can you hear the difference I from here? It's much clearer sound. It's a nice one to practice to really get your vocal cords walking. And now, before we start to learn a new song, we're going to sing a song that we already know as the final part of our warm up. And that is row, row, row your boat. Row together, breathing in. And now checking their shoulders, checking that Joel breathing in to begin. Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream. So that was quite high for me. So what we might want to do is move a bit lower row. Let's go here. Row, oh, row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life is, but the dream was quite low. We're just experimenting here and having fun with all voice. Hope you enjoyed our little warm up, and now we're going to move onto our next lesson. 6. Learning by Ear: Welcome back. In this short lesson, I'm going to talk about listening and confidence because in this method of singing, we are learning by ear. To give you an example of how natural learning by areas, I just like to ask you earlier before I talked about singing happy birthday. When you learn happy birthday, How did you learn it? Was there sheet music? Did you know what key it was in? Could you see the notes? Did you know how many balls you held each note for? Note? I'm saying that because it's ridiculous, isn't it you just learned, isn't you heard it so many times and then you were just able to sing it. When we sing Happy Birthday, were not singing it is a performance for ourselves to show off. We're singing it for that person. We're singing together. And that's a little essence of what I want to teach as well, that, that singing is a gift that you give to somebody else. Rather than I'm singing, Look at me. I'm singing, be here with me of what she wanted. The big reasons I hear what people say they can't call saying is because they say that they don't understand music theory and the can't read music. Well, let me let you in for a little secret. I honestly sheet music. Looks like a foreign language to me. I do not understand. And I've recorded two albums, one of them with a huge group of professional, highly trained jazz musicians. And it didn't matter that we need to just let out, throw that out, throw it in the rubbish bin for it in the garbage because we do not need that. We don't need that rubbish that we can't sing because we don't have any music theory knowledge. So in this next lesson, we are going to learn a song by ear, as we've done for years and years and years. 7. Learn a Simple Folk Song: Welcome back. In this lesson, we are going to learn a folk song by ear. This is a song that I wrote and it's inspired by nature. So I thought would be a perfect choice for the song that we're going to sing to nature. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to break it down into little parts. And you can just copy me. And we will slowly put the song together. As always, just paying attention again, tall shoulders, tall Jewels. Have we got tenants again. So it's like this. Let me be together. Let me be one more time. Let me be let an amine. So I'm going to point to me and then I'll point to you or pointed together or you can just join in as soon as you got to. Let let me be more like a tree together. Let me be more like a tree. Again. Let me be more like a tree. And then the whole phrase, Here we go, we're going to add a bit more. Let me be more like a tree standing tall for all to see. Again, let me be more like a tree standing toes to see if this range I'm singing, it doesn't feel good to you. You can always learn this tune and antennae off and the way you experiment with changing the start node. So if I'm starting here, lead, lead, lead or anger. So we can experiment like that. So if you go away afterwards, anything or I can hit high no, then just do that. Using a lie down here for, for an experiment. Let, let me be more like a tree standing TOEFL to see. Again. Let me be more like a tree standing tall furrow to see me be more like me. So that bit's the chorus. So let's do that again. Let me be more like me. Again. Let me be more like me. So the tree with the bus and the space, the chorus. So let's sing the vast twice, and then the course twice. Again, paying attention, shoulders job, Deep breath in to begin. Let me be more like a tree standing TOEFL to Save As again, let me be more like a tree standing tofu to see chorus, let me be more like me. And other chorus, let me be more like me. So this song has got four verses where different elements of nature called in. And we bring in a little bit of that energy of that element of nature. Let's go through and learn the lyrics from each class. Singing and learning larynx is really good for your brain as well, your brain and your memory. Okay? Okay, here we go. So the second verse is the sky. So if we imagine the first one, we did the tree, the tree reaching up and then we're reaching out. We're like the sky. And the sky stretches out far and wide. So we'll sing that one so we get the verse that one. Let me, The more like this sky stretching out foreign wide. Lovely. Now as we look up to the sky, it becomes nighttime. So we think about the night. Let me be more like the night turning all our wrongs to rights. Ready? Deep breath in. Let me be more like the night turning. All allow rollercoaster rides. Lovely. And then the final one, which is my favorite one, is the sun. So it's become night and then the sunrises and were more like the sun shining love to everyone. Deep breath in. Let me the most like the sun shining love to every one. Let me be more like me. Okay, now we've learned the song. We're going to practice it a few times. So in the next video, I'm going to sing through all the verses and we're going to sing each first twice, and then the course twice. See you in the next lesson. 8. Practice Track: Welcome back. Now it's time to enjoy the song that we learned together. I encourage you to close your eyes when you're singing, to really relax and enjoy the song. Have a special prop with me. You like Laura, what's this word, Nike twig, you've got? Well, this is actually a leaf shaker that I've made, just bound together, though it's of leaves and it makes a lovely relaxing and soothing sound. And that's going to be our accompaniment to all singing. What I'm going to do is I'm going to sing the whole song through twice. And to get ready, Let's just close our eyes for a moment. Fill our body in the space. So I feel our legs on the chair or philosophy on the floor, just paying attention to our body in this space as we enjoy the singing together. So we're gonna take a few deep breaths and then we're going to breathe in and start singing. We're going to breathe in for three and out for sex. Ready breathing out in 23. How 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 in 2, 3 out, 23456. Reading in to begin. Let me be more like a tree standing to see. Let me be more like tree search. To see me, me, me, me the sky. Let me be more like the sky stretching far and wide. Let me be more like the sky stretching. Foreign me be a law. Like me. Whoa, like me, the night let me be more like the night. Turning turbines. That may be more like the light turning around stir rides me, be more like me, the sun, let me be more like the sun shining to free on. Let me be more like the sun shining to me the law like me, me, the law like me. Again tree. Let me be more like a tree, standing toes to see let me be more like a tree standing toe to see me be more like me. Let me be more like me, the sky. Let me be more like the sky searching far and wide. Let me be more like the sky stretching far and wide. We be more like Min let me be low, like me the night. Let me be more like the night turning. All right. Let me be more like the night turning. All Lauren's story writes. Me be more like me, me, me the sun. Let me be more like the sun shining love to everyone. Let me be more like the sun shining love to B31. Let me be a law like me. Let me be a law like me penalize for the last one. Let me be more. And tooling that quiet moment. That quiet center we find when we sing. Taking a few breaths to enjoy that moment. Well done, That was brilliant. Time to move on to our next lesson, where I'll talk about are singing challenge. 9. Sing to Nature Challenge: Welcome back. We're getting to the end of class Bu, so enjoyed spending time with you. In this short video, we are going to talk about the singing to Nature Challenge. I invite you to go and sing that lovely song that we learned together. And go and sing it to a point in nature that means something to you. It might be in your garden, there might be a special flower or plant in your garden. It might be out in nature. I'm very lucky to live in Kent, which is nicknamed the garden of England. So there's plenty of fields, rivers, lakes, trees, find somewhere that special to you and hopefully somewhere private. So you can do this on your own and sing the song we learned together to nature to document this moment, please take a picture. It could be a selfie of you with the tree, with the flower, or it could be a picture of nature in its magnificent glory on its own, which ever you prefer. And then take a moment in your journal to write down what the experience was like for you. And then I would love you to share that in the project section of the Skillshare site. On this page, some way you will see the Project button at my project and you can upload your picture and write a little bit about it. I can't wait to see this stream fills up with pictures of glorious nature all over the world. I look forward to seeing them. And now it's time for our final lesson where we're going to wrap up and close this costs. See you there. 10. Closing and Well done! : Welcome back. To close this class. We're going to do a really quick practice. There's something you might like to try at home when you do your singing practices as well. So we're going to wrap the hands together. Nice and warm. Put the hands on the heart and preposition. And I'm going to sing it once, and then we'll sing it three times together. First of all, just closing the eyes, taking a moment to think about something that you're grateful for, could be that you're grateful for this singing experience we've had together. Could be grateful for the drink you're drinking. Something else, is taking a moment to find something. Checking him at the jaw and the shoulders. I'm going to sing once and then we'll sing together, deep breath in and 3 together. Deep breath. Another deep breath. Last one, filling in your heart. Hello, I love that. Thank you so much for participating in this class. This is my first class here on Skillshare. I'm really excited to be joining this community, joining this platform. If you've got any questions or any comments about the class, please go to the Discussions tab and right in there and I will respond. I hope this course has inspired you to take some more steps forward and you're singing journey. You might like to make those videos part of your daily or weekly singing practice and watch your voice slowly bloom like a flower. If you haven't already do, make sure you upload your photo of nature and your feedback about how the experience was of singing outdoors for you. I can't wait to see that. I have plans to upload more classes on skill share. So do follow me on my Skillshare profile page. That's where you can find out a bit more about me and there'll be links to my music. For example, if you wanted to hear my albums. Thank you so much again for watching. And may this class have opened your heart, opened your mind to singing, being a part of your life. And may singing bring joy, connection, community piece, and wander into your life. And may all the nature around you, all the trees, the radiant and joyful that you are singing. Thank you so much. See you. Buh-bye.