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Voice of Your Life is dedicated to the healthy voice inside you.
I'm Joanna Cazden, a speech pathologist, singer, voice coach, and teacher. I help people with a variety of voice problems, transgender women seeking voice feminization, and healthy performing artists who want to fine-tune their technique. (find out how to work with me here). I created this site and wrote my book to help you take care of your voice—avoid some of the most common problems—and to find the right kind of help when something does go wrong.
UPDATE: I was interviewed in American Theatre Magazine about singers' health, in a roundtable with Kristen Chenoweth & others, January 2010. Read it here.
Everyone - performing artist or not - deserves to understand the amazing instrument inside your throat: a small but powerful organ that unites breath and muscle; words and music; spirit, sound, and communication. The voice is precious yet robust; you can protect it with simple daily life habits. And it's getting easier all the time to find teachers, therapists and physicians who are as dedicated to voice as you are.
So please browse in the Health/FAQ resources and Readings archive; take the quiz; sign up for a bi-monthly newsletter; and check out my book and meditation CD. Thanks for visiting! |
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How to Take Care of Your Voice: The Lifestyle Guide for Singers and Talkers
 "Joanna's book should be required reading of every person whose voice is important to them....Highly readable, practical and full of actionable, voice-saving advice. I use the concepts in my career and recommend it to my students." —Judy Rodman, vocal coach, creator of "Power, Path & Performance" vocal training method, Nashville TN. |
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Visualizations for Singers: Guided Imagery for Vocal Health & Performance
(audio CD/MP3)
"Joanna Cazden has a unique ability to marry the technical and spiritual aspect of voice.
—Andrea Odinov, Loyola Marymount University
“This sold out right away! As soon as people heard about it, they wanted one.”—Jane Grady, CTMS Festival Store
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 Meet Joanna:
"One of the premier vocal trainers for professional voice users" -- Kay Meyer, LinkedIn.
I'm from a musical family, earned college & graduate degrees in theater, then became a singer-songwriter, touring nationally in the women's music movement of the 1970s-80s. Retrained in medical speech pathology, where I now specialize in voice rehabilitation for artists. I also teach healthy performers and their teachers about vocal wellness, teach other speech therapists about voice and alternative medicine, and write for various publications on & offline. In my spare time I workout, study intuitive healing, and enjoy visual hobbies like photoshop and interior design.
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