In today’s very scrappy video, I talk about how to wake up your voice when you’re absolutely exhausted — like the day after teaching a two-day workshop .
When you’re tired, the worst thing you can do is force energy into your voice. That sudden push makes the whole system tense, which is exactly what leads to strain and injury. Instead, voice work on low-energy days needs to start from where you actually are.
In this video, I explore:
• Why pushing your voice when tired backfires
• How physical exhaustion changes the vocal system
• A clown-based check-in exercise for “arriving in your body”
• How to warm up without overriding your fatigue
• The counterintuitive reason slow, tired warm-ups work better
• How honoring your energy creates a healthier, more reliable voice
Chapters:
00:00 How do you wake up your voice when you’re exhausted?
00:16 Why pushing your voice makes things worse
01:30 What tired muscles do to your sound
01:45 A clowning exercise for embodied check-in
02:14 Letting tiredness move through the body
03:18 Starting with breath + low-effort warm-ups
04:20 When to add movement, resonance, articulation
04:55 How honoring your energy protects the voice
05:47 Warming up without forcing yourself “awake”
06:11 Why this approach works long-term
06:45 Final thoughts + resting as voice training
If you’re someone who uses your voice — actor, improviser, singer, teacher, tour guide, human being — this approach will save your voice on your worst days.
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