Body
Rag dolls
Stand with your feet a shoulder width apart, breathe in through the nose and bending from
the waist allow yourself to flop like a rag doll while breathing out through your mouth.
Shake any tension out of your arms, neck, shoulders and allow yourself to literally hang
loose. And then breathing in through your nose very gently and slowly bring yourself
upright and breathe out through your mouth.
Shake outs
Shake out your arms and hands until you feel them warm and relaxed. Do the same for
your legs.
Shoulder hunch
On an in-breath hunch your shoulders as high as your ears and then let go while breathing
out. Repeat until they are at ease.
Neck rolls
Let your head flop foward and then slowly, smoothly and gently roll it up and around to the
right and then back. Repeat for the left side.
Face scrunch
Tighten every muscle in your face as much as you can and then release.
Jaw release
Yawn widely, letting all the tension it might be holding go. Repeat. Massage any points of
residual tension.
Mouth
Smile and stretch as wide as you can. Hold and release.
Tongue
Extend it as far as you can (poke it out) and now sweep it around the outside of your mouth
- a complete rotation to the left and then another to the right.
Repeat with your mouth closed, running your tongue around the outside of your teeth. Once
to the left and then another to the right.
Lizard tongue
Flick your tongue rapidly in and out of your mouth as fast as you can.
Breath
Diaphragm breathing
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Stand with your feet a comfortable shoulder width apart.
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Support the weight of your body through your hips and legs rather than locking your
knees.
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Consciously release and relax your shoulders.
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If you're holding your stomach in, let it go.
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Place your hands on your stomach.
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Breathe in through your nose to the count of five. Count slowly. As you inhale feel
your diaphragm rising.
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Breathe out through your mouth to the count of five and now feel your diaphragm
expanding.
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Do several rounds of inhale and exhale while making sure you keep your shoulders,
stomach and legs relaxed.
Exercise
1. Stand with your feet a comfortable shoulder width apart.
2. Support the weight of your body through your hips and legs rather than locking
your knees.
3. Consciously release and relax your shoulders.
4. If you're holding your stomach in, let it go.
5. Bring your palms together in the center of your chest.
6. As you slowly inhale through your nose, keeping the palms of your hands together,
raise your arms as high as you can above your head. At the same time raise
yourself on to your toes.
7. Hold your breath briefly at the top of your inhale keeping yourself fully
8. stretched and pushing without strain toward to the sky.
9. Exhale slowly through your mouth and while keeping your arms fully extended,
bring them slowly down and round back up to your chest, palms together in the
starting position.
10. At the same time slowly lower your feet.
11. Repeat for ten rounds.
Voice
Diction Exercises for 'B' words:
Betty bought a bit of butter, but she found the butter bitter, so Betty bought a bit of better
butter to make the bitter butter better.
Bill had a billboard.
Bill also had a board bill.
The board bill bored Bill,
So Bill sold his billboard
And paid his board bill.
Then the board bill
No longer bored Bill,
But though he had no board bill,
Neither did he have his billboard!
For 'D' words try:
Did Doug dig David's garden or did David dig Doug's garden?
Do drop in at the Dewdrop Inn
Diction Exercises for 'F' words:
Four furious friends fought for the phone
Five flippant Frenchmen fly from France for fashions
For 'H' words try:
How was Harry hastened so hurriedly from the hunt?
In Hertford,Hereford and Hampshire hurricanes hardly ever happen
Diction Exercises for 'J' words:
James just jostled Jean gently.
Jack the jailbird jacked a jeep.
Diction Exercises for 'K' words:
Kiss her quick, kiss her quicker, kiss her quickest.
My cutlery cuts keenly and cleanly.
Diction Exercises for 'L' words:
Literally literary.
Larry sent the latter a letter later.
Lucy lingered, looking longingly for her lost lap-dog.
Diction Exercise for 'N' and 'U' sounds:
You know New York,
You need New York,
You know you need unique New York.
Diction Exercises for 'P' words:
Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
If Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked?
Pearls, please, pretty Penelope,
Pretty Penelope, pretty Penelope,
Pearls, please, pretty Penelope,
Pretty Penelope Pring.
For 'Q' words:
Quick kiss. Quicker kiss. Quickest kiss.
Quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly...
For 'R' words:
Round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.
Reading and writing are richly rewarding.
Exercises for 'S' words:
Six thick thistle sticks
Theophilus Thistler, the thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve of unsifted thistles, thrust three
thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.
The shrewd shrew sold Sarah seven sliver fish slices.
Sister Susie sat on the sea shore sewing shirts for sailors
Moses supposes his toeses are roses,
But Moses supposes erroneously,
For nobody's toeses are posies of roses
As Moses supposes his toeses to be.
(Pronounce the word 'toeses' to rhyme with 'Moses'.)
For 'T' words:
Ten tame tadpoles tucked tightly in a thin tall tin.
Two toads, totally tired, trying to trot to Tewkesbury.
For 'V' words:
Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently.
Vera valued the valley violets.
General tongue twisters
Red leather, yellow leather...
Red lorry, yellow lorry...