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Connect to Your Thought: Mindfulness Exercise for Sight-Reading and Speaking With Notes

On October 4, 2016October 4, 2016 By bespokecommunicationIn Managing Nerves, Mindfulness, Voice and Text, Voice work for Beginners

Hello Friends!

Happy October, it’s pumpkin time! This is the second part of our series on working with text and notes. We’ve put together a mindfulness exercise that aims to help you connect your breath to thought with the context of an important event or to simply get you in the headspace for practicing.

Everything starts to ramp up this time of year so please let us know in the comments if there’s anything you feel would be beneficial! And please give us any feedback you have on this exercise!

Take Good Care,

Lindsay and Christine

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