Reading Assignment #7
1. The three general ideas the exercises in this chapter are based on are that vibrations are
2. In step one, Linklater suggests we search for ways to create and re-create a personal
3. Instead of responding mechanically when asked to hum, we should let the vibrations flow
from the middle of your body, through your mouth: close your lips and let the vibrations
5. Linklater says she wants to condition a combined muscular and emotional release at the
6. If you repeat an exercise only in your habitual speaking voice, you will tend to remain
within your customary range and habitual patterns of inflection and never expand into
unknown areas.
7. If tensions exist in the back of the neck, jaw or throat, vibrations are trapped in contracted
muscles.
8. Three distinct muscle groups of the involuntary breath system are diaphragmatic,