Featured teacher for Vocal Health Education and co-host of the Thinking Voice podcast, Robert Sussuma joins Alexa this week on Singing Teachers Talk. He’s here to discuss how you can develop a singer’s self awareness and clarifying intention. Robert will also be presenting at BAST’s Focus On: The Body and the Singer event on the 27th of June.
KEY MOMENTS
I have a student who calls it updating the motherboard
Working with novelty is really effective but strange compared to what most people do
The lesson isn’t what we do, it’s what we’re learning having done it
We can all do the same lesson and learn something different

RELEVANT LINKS & MENTIONS

• BAST Focus On The Body & The Singer Event
• Vocal Health Education
• The Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education 
• Thinking Voice Podcast - The Endings Conversation
• Vocology in Practice
• Singing Teachers Talk Podcast - Ep.32 - The Bio-Psycho-Social Model with Stephen King
• The Joys of Singing and Sex?!? - A Somatic Approach (Blog)
• Sense and Sensuality Event

ABOUT THE GUEST
Robert Sussuma, a native New Yorker, is an explorer and a connoisseur of connections: movement, speaking and singing, voice science, emotions, music history, motor learning, existentialism, neurology-in-action, consciousness and deep personal development, to name a few. His formal education is in vocal performance (Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance and Master of Music in Early Music Voice Performance). He discovered the Feldenkrais® Method of Somatic Education and has seen the two fields as inseparable ever since. He is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner.
Robert has taught Private Voice Lessons and Voice and Movement Classes at Naropa University (Boulder, Colorado), Haverford College (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and PACE University (New York) and has maintained an active private studio for over 20 years, working with with well-known and successful actors and singers in NYC. Robert has also been a guest teacher at Harvard University, the University of Michigan and Barcelona University.
Robert now teaches mostly online working with singers of all kinds and training voice teachers to work somatically. He has created two extensive online courses THE SINGING SELF PROGRAM and THE SINGING SELF PROGRAM: TEACHER TRACK

EPISODE RESOURCES
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Guest Website
@robert_sussuma

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