Breathing Exercises
1. Inhale slowly and deeply through the nose. Exhale slowly through the mouth. Repeat.
2. Inhale slowly and deeply through the nose. Exhale slowly making the sound "ahhhh". USE YOUR DIAPHRAGM
3. Inhale deeply. Exhale in short explosive bursts (huh! huh! huh! huh!).
4. Inhale slowly and count aloud clearly enunciating each number until you run out of breath. This is also a good warm-up exercise for your articulators.
5. Read the following sentence as many times as you can on one breath. This sentence is filled with words that use air.
He hid at home and sobbed when his sister seized whatever he had on top in the thin five-shelved closet.
6. Take a deep breath and see how far you can read through this grouping of words. Make sure you are making each of the words come alive as you say them. Don't just race through them -- interpret!
Collecting and projecting,
receding and speeding
and shocking and rocking
and darting and parting
and treading and spreading
and whizzing and hissing
and dripping and skipping
and hitting and splitting
and shining and twining
and rattling and battling
and shaking and quaking
and pouring and roaring
and waving and raving
and flowing and going
and heaving and cleaving
and foaming and roaming
and moaning and groaning
and dropping and hopping
With special thanks to:-
Connie Terwilliger
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