Vocalize

01/09/2023

Incredible Opportunity for a Musical Director/Choir Leader in London from Pop Up Choir👇

12/08/2022

After some serious confusion and realisation that finding out what I'm doing is actually quite hard I've decided to consolidate everything into a website! HOW NOVEL haha finally I join the 21st century! Everything you need to know about the too many things I'm doing and how to get involved! ###

28/06/2022

www.patreon.com/blythepepino

Folks,

Tonight’s class is back on @ 6pm-7pm

I hope this finds you all well. Seems like Summer is heating up both in temperature and in the sheer amount that is going on - feeling that?

However you are we will find stillness and strength by coming back to our voices and space in the body of our instrument today.

I will also be doing another class live on Zoom with the same link tomorrow at 6pm. This will also be recorded and sent out by email on Thursday.

Blythe

xXx

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30/05/2022

Still a few places left for the

Priske De Handschutter: Two Day Voice Seminar

1st and 2nd July, London, Venue TBC

Incredible, singer, actor and teacher Priske is coming to London from Amsterdam to create a rare opportunity to experience her exceptional teaching skills using The Lichtenberger Method…

“For everyone with questions about the phenomenon of the voice, its movement and direct relations with the body. For anyone who is prepared to be guided through a process of sensory perception. A warm welcome to come and join a two day introduction seminar and reading about voice and sound development on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd of July!

Immerse yourself in the wonderful world of sound and the art of listening!”

FIND OUT MORE HERE

Email me at pepinopiano@gmail.com to book your spot

So much love to you all,
Blythe x

26/05/2022

Vocalize Classes start again from 7th June, join up now to be involved, regulate your nervous system, bring more resilience and flow to your existence and have fun with your voice while you do it! Here's some writing on Polyvagal Theory and how that will be incorporated into the classes...

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19/05/2022

Hello Growing Voices,

I am soon to start Vocalize again...but when??!

Here is my most recent newsletter asking if you would like to have a summer period for classes or and if you would like Zoom recordings ...

https://mailchi.mp/e9aef4be4515/vocalize-week-2-16109018

If you have not yet signed up to my mailing list or Patreon you can do so at www.patreon.com/blythepepino or just comment below if you would like to be in touch. Equally text me on the number here for Vocalize classes or one to one sessions!

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14/03/2022

Hello Vocalizers!

Just 3 weeks to go until we pause…

Wow it really feels like the weather may have taken a turn for the Spring! I’m seeing blossoms on the trees and there’s a grand magnolia tree on my street very proudly dressed. I am starting to want to parade a bit more myself, colourful clothes, less clothes more skin, going out more, general energy levels - how about you?

This week we will be continuing with the theme of choice. I cannot emphasise enough how seminal this area is for our voices and, dare I say it, our lives. So, I want to give us a bit more time to sit with what comes up when we actively engage with it. This is especially because we will be pausing lessons soon and I hope to leave you with a stronger connection to your ‘will’, your sense of desire, so that if the call to express and to play with your voice comes you create the space to listen for it, to really hear it and feel naturally motivated to act on it.

Choice is important to our sense of identity and to our alignment with that identity. I can identify with being a writer but be avoiding the call of my soul to write. Why? It’s always fear - of embarrassment, of disappointment, of judgement and of pain and ego death. But in reality the worst pain always comes when we suppress ourselves, when we don’t act on our true desires. As I mentioned last week, in voice work, choosing to answer the call from deep inside you (aligning your actions with your will), is often the difference between open resonation and an uncomfortable battle with oneself.

I want to inspire you with a scene from my favourite film of all time The Piano by Jane Campion. This film is all about ‘will’. The ‘will’ of a passionate and stubborn selectively-mute woman who is sent to the New Zealand outback for an arranged marriage and falls in love with someone else. Whose power of choice wins out even in times so oppressive as the late 1800’s. It’s only 5 mins long… WATCH THE CLIP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTn4ibTb_sw&ab_channel=theairinthebranches

One to one classes are also available in person where I live in Hackney, London or online at £40/hour £20/ half hour. Just email me at pepinopiano@gmail.com

Joyous blooms to you all,

### Blythe ###

Ending of Jane Campion's "The Piano."

07/03/2022

Hello Beating Hearts!

Just four weeks to go until we pause…

It’s a beautiful sunny, if still a wee bit chilly, day. I’m hoping each of you get the chance to feel rays on your skin!

Last week we were exploring the importance of chaos and engaging our sense of courage and playfulness as well as digging into our very essential need to express.

This need calls for a space to feel what is really going on for us. Where we can acknowledge/accept uncomfortable aspects of our lives, especially when issues are ongoing and complex. Doing so helps us alleviate what I like to call ‘negativity multiplier emotions’ NME’s (see what I did there) like fear and shame and guilt.

When we do create space and feel into the underbelly of our busy lives chaos can ensue. In the voice this often transpires as messy vocalisations, full of exciting but scary energy, that feels out of control and can come alongside emotional outbursts - laughing or crying. In an unsafe environment we might then react yet again with fear/shame/guilt! But, in Vocalize, we find we not only have every right to express but that it is absolutely essential to the sustenance of our voices literally and metaphorically.

Using the tree analogy again, it is a process of tending to our foundation by growing strong roots down as we extend our courageous shoots up and out.

So, our shoots are growing - but which way to grow and how?!…

This week we will continue with the themes above to give us all the chance to explore them further. But I will also be introducing the concept of choice! So important to our sense of identity/alignment. In vocal work choice, or alignment of will, is often the difference between open resonation and an uncomfortable battle with oneself.

I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow to discover more!

25/02/2022

Absolute Beauties

Please be aware there will be new links shared on Monday for March.

But right now I’m doing another push of my teaching skills via the Super Prof website and I would be incredibly grateful if you were to recommend me.

On website like this recommendations will go a long way in encouraging people to try my lessons.

Please spend a few moments clicking on the link below and leaving a recommendation in return for which I would love to give you a free hour coaching session online or in my home in Hackney.

Recommend me and get one hour personal vocal coaching and consultation for free!:

https://www.superprof.co.uk/ir/19771490-66d15e

### Blythe ###

Private tutoring for ambitious students: Superprof, the site connecting tutors and pupils.

21/02/2022

Hello You Uniquely Stunning, Resonating Humans,

Welcome to the middle stage!

Our new shoots are burgeoning out of the ground but, oh! the wind is blowing and it’s still bitingly cold out there! “What’s the point!” “Is it all worth the effort”? our minds creep in. Or rather, more sneakily, “I don’t have time for this!”

We are 8 weeks in, we are challenging our nervous systems and voices to open in ways we may have never done before; there can be unrest. At the same we are sitting on unfamiliar ground. It can all combine to have us turn away from our practice. This is the time when we must ask for an extra push to turn up and get through to the next stage full of gifts and blooming!

You are worth it, keep going
This week we will continue investigating resonance via the finger on the tongue but we will be oscillating between that exercise and closing off our outer ears and listening internally - as our vibrations move through our fascia, bones and airways of our magnificent bodies. We will see if we can notice similar resonance in both positions and also note any differences of interest to us. We will also be letting off some steam by having messy fun with some sung phrases…

One to one classes are also available in person where I live in Hackney, London or online at £40/hour £20/ half hour. If anyone you know might enjoy these classes then please do recommend them. This is really meaningful work for me and I would love to be able to continue teaching and improving the classes.

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Much love and vibration to you all

### Blythe ###

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08/02/2022

Vocalize Spring Update
Hello Wonderful Folks,

A massive thank you to you all who are supporting me in these classes so far this year. I hope the exchange is working well for you and you are learning through our work together…

I am planning to take a pause at the end of April. For anyone new, that means I will pause the payment cycle until term starts again in June. I plan to take myself off on a walking holiday with my partner. It’s a trip we’ve been meaning to do for 3 whole years and having finished my album I’m looking forward to this as a great reward :)

It will also give you the chance to take the tools we’ve delved into and work them into your week with the freedom of just your own inner guide!

In summary, so far we have come at the work somatically, from the body, learning groundedness, balance in energy and attitude. Then last week we pivoted to another angle - coming to the voice directly via focus on active listening and resonance. Moving away from the conscious mind and allowing healing to happen as we focus on the beauty of sound. All of this introduces us to our voices more intimately. If you feel any of this has not landed with you please don’t feel despondent. The more we are open to the struggle the more likely we are to find our way across ragged ground. And ragged ground is required for us to learn the big lessons. Just keep trusting yourself and the journey.

One to one classes are also available in person where I live in Hackney, London or online at £40/hour £20/ half hour.

Much love and vibration to you all

### Blythe ###