Episode Details

Today Alexa is joined by a singer-songwriter, speech pathologist and voice rehabilitation specialist. She's also the author of Everyday Voice Care: The Lifestyle Guide for Singers and Talkers, with other publication credits including the Journal of Voice and Voice and Speech Review. Joanna Cazden is on Singing Teachers Talk to tell you how you can help your singers maintain a vocally healthy lifestyle.  

KEY MOMENTS

‘I was afraid to tell anyone about it. I had no clue what was going on. I had no idea of going to a doctor’

‘Contradiction is part of the health journey’

‘That system is designed by survival to be out of mind and unconscious’

‘We're balancing this seesaw of considering vocal health, but also not becoming neurotic’

EPISODE RESOURCES 

Guest Website
joannacazden.com

Social Media
Youtube

Book Link - Everyday Voice Care: The Lifestyle Guide for Singers and Talkers by Joanna Cazden:

Hal Leonard

Amazon

RELEVANT LINKS & MENTIONS

• Vocal Health Education
• Homunculus
• American Speech-Language Hearing Association: asha.org
• Brain, Mind and Voice Therapy by Joanna Cazden at the ASHA Convention (2017)
• Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others by Marco Lacoboni 
• Joanna Cazden’s talk on Empathy and Self-Care for The Voice Foundation
• Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
• Kate Devore
• The Vocal Pitstop: Keeping Your Voice on Track by Adam D Rubin MD

ABOUT THE GUEST

Joanna Cazden is a voice rehabilitation specialist, singer-songwriter, and educator in Santa Cruz CA, recently retired from the Voice Clinic at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, where she was senior speech pathologist for 18 years. Her book Everyday Voice Care: The Lifestyle Guide for Singers and Talkers (Hal Leonard, 2012) is widely used in vocal performance and pedagogy programs, and her lectures to national and international groups are regularly praised for her ability to bridge medical, artistic, and humanistic points of view. Other publication credits include the Journal of Voice, Voice and Speech Review, and numerous music magazines and guest blogs.
Joanna toured widely in the feminist-folk circuits of the 1970s-80s, released six solo albums, and continues to perform with local folk, jazz, and chamber ensembles. In addition to her musical and clinical credits she has also trained deeply in theatre arts, counselling, and energy healing. Consistent themes throughout her work include preventive wellness education and advocacy for performing artists; the interdisciplinary nature of voice training and care; and the need for improved communication and understanding among all voice care professions. She is Certified in HealthCare by the Performing Arts Medicine Association.

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