Index of Resources

Please find downloadable text versions exercises here.

Full Sessions

Weekly Offline Audio Sessions
ENO Breathe Week One Mini Session (audio)
ENO Breathe Week Two Mini Session (audio)
ENO Breathe Week Three Mini Session (audio)
ENO Breathe Week Four Mini Session (audio)
ENO Breathe Week Five Mini Session (audio)
ENO Breathe Week Six Mini Session (audio)

ENO Breathe Anytime
ENO Breathe Anytime with Suzi (video)- an offline session to gently connect with your breath even on a bad day
ENO Breathe Anytime with Lea (video) – an offline session to align body, mind and breath to start the day with focus
ENO Breathe Anytime with Suzi (audio) – an offline session to help get unstuck and unlocked
ENO Breathe Anytime with Lea (audio) – an offline session to free up accessory muscles and voice

Individual Exercises

Aligning mind and body
3 Tips To Get Started (audio) – Suzi 
Mind and body check in (video) – Suzi
Mind and body check in (video) – Lea
Spring mind and body check in (audio) – Suzi
Evening warmth mind and body check in (audio) – Lea
Mind and body check in (audio) – Abigail
Mind and body check in (audio) – Nicola

Exercises to encourage balanced posture
Seated twist stretch (video and audio)
Eyes right, eyes left (video and audio)

Exercises for your neck and shoulders
Neck massage (video and audio)
Stretching the side of your neck (video and audio)
Hello World (video and audio)
Shoulder shrugs (video and audio)
Finding space in your ribs (video and audio)
Finding space at the top of your spine (video and audio)

Release tension in your face
Release tension in your face (video and audio)

Breath work – Connecting with your breath:
Gesture and breath (video and audio)
Imagery and your breath (video and audio)
Connecting with your breath – circles (video)
Ocean Visualisation (audio)
Countdown to Calm (audio)

Breath work – Breath pacing:
Box Breathing (video and audio)
4-7-8 Breathing (video and audio)

Breath work – Encourage nasal breathing:
Unblock your nose (video and audio)
Breathing through your nose and humming (video and audio)

Vocal warm ups
Sirening for the male voice (video)
Sirening for the female voice (video)
Spellcasting (video and audio)

Vocal re-set – exercises to encourage greater ease when using your voice
What is SOVT? (video and audio)
Exploring SOVT (video and audio)

Other

The science behind singing
What happens in our body when we sing?
Why does Singing Make You Feel Good?

Alternatively, if you would like to use written prompts to guide you through the exercises, here is a downloadable written guide of all the exercises.

Weekly Offline Audio Sessions

In response to requests from participants of ENO Breathe, we have prepared an offline version of each week’s session in the form of an audio track which you can listen to like a podcast. Settle yourself somewhere calm and comfortable and revisit week one to six of ENO Breathe.

ENO Breathe Anytime

You can now access ENO Breathe Anytime with our offline pre-recorded sessions.  Explore the resources below.

Aligning mind and body

All ENO Breathe sessions begin with building awareness of habits and connecting mind and body. Thinking about the way we hold ourselves and focusing on how we breathe at rest is a good way to begin the day, and a useful thing to check in with at any time. Good posture supports efficient breathing, speaking and singing, and being present in your body and feeling attuned to your mind prepares the soil so that new ideas might take root. However, observing yourself at rest is not straightforward; as soon as you focus your attention on your breathing, it is tempting to change or ‘correct’ what you are doing.

The videos and audio tracks below will help you to bring your attention to your mind and body, with an awareness of your breathing. It takes practice to inhabit your body and observe what is happening without trying to change it.

Exercises to encourage balanced posture

These exercises encourage good spine alignment to better facilitate low easy breathing.

Exercises for your neck and shoulders

Stress, anxiety and tiredness can all cause tension to be held in the neck, shoulders and upper back. These will help to build sensory awareness as well as releasing some of that tension so that both breathing and voicing can function more efficiently and freely.

Pick and choose from the exercises below to find the ones that work for you.  Remind yourself of old favourites, or try something new.

Release tension in your face

Just as we hold tension in our shoulders and necks, our faces can also become unhelpfully tight, which has a knock-on effect for our breathing and can lead to vocal strain. 

The exercises in this video will remind you of things we have done in sessions to warm up and engage facial muscles and to ease tension in the jaw.

Breath Work

Connecting With Your Breath

Moving your body along with your breath externalises the internal and this can be a useful way to calm rapid breathing and alleviate the associated anxiety. Connecting gesture to breath can make slowing your breathing feel more achievable, because slowing the pace of a movement you can see and feel is often more manageable than just obeying an instruction to slow your breathing.  Images and visualisations can work in a similar way.

Countdown to calm (audio) – Suzi

Breath pacing

Box breathing and 4 – 7 – 8 breathing instil a sense of calm, helping to slow down your breathing. Practising this will make the exercise feel more natural over time. Both have a positive effect on the heart rate and nervous system, calming your mind and helping you to ground yourself in the present and are a safe way to challenge a breathing habit and to be intentionally curious about air hunger.

Encourage nasal breathing

Breathing through your nose at rest is a good idea – your nose is there to filter and humidify the air.  However, if you have been in the habit of breathing through your mouth then it may feel tricky at first and you might find that your nose feels blocked.  These exercises will help.

Vocal warm-ups

It is easy to get confused about the mechanics of coordinating breathing and voicing and it can feel frustrating to have to think about something that previously came naturally and effortlessly. Sirening is a simple low-impact way to warm up your voice and Spellcasting is a story-based vocal warm up that promotes easy coordination of voice and breath, helping you to make sound without straining and encouraging healthy voice use.

Vocal reset – exercises to encourage greater ease when using your voice

SOVT exercises are a useful as a reset for your voice when you are tired, because working this way allows your vocal folds to unpress and stretch without strain by changing the air pressure above your vocal folds, meaning that they are able come together with less stress and impact than when you speak or sing.

For some of these exercises, you will need a glass with about an inch or so of water in, and for others you’ll need the straw from your welcome pack, so you might want to grab these things before you start.

The Science

…Behind Singing