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Your Free Voice

Your Free Voice

By: Julia Norton
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 Are you getting the most out of your voice, either singing or speaking? This show is for anyone who is holding themselves back from a full, free and expressive voice. Whether you're a novice or professional voice user, a singer, actor or presenter, Julia will be joyfully offering you solid technique and mindset shifts to get the very most out of your voice. Julia qualified as a Voice Movement Therapy Practitioner in London in 2000 and has been helping singers and voice professionals for over 20 years.2022 Art Entertainment & Performing Arts Personal Development Personal Success
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  • 056 - Solstice Rituals for your Voice and Self Expression

    056 - Solstice Rituals for your Voice and Self Expression
    Dec 20 2025
    In this episode I'm sharing with you some of my ideas for creative rituals for the winter solstice. I also wanted to make sure this one was properly grounded in our voices and how we feel about them so I offer: Working with the pause between the in breath and the out breath.Writing a Shadow Inventory.Writing a letter from the self you are ready to become.Making a collage.Singing the things from your shadow inventory as you release them into flames.Scanning your body for the holding and stories that are hiding there. I also invited you to join my mailing list which you can do here to be the first to know about #7 which is the new resource I'm creating for the new year about releasing ancestral blocks. Take care of yourself in these cold months, give yourself up to the darkness for a moment to relax and listen to what your body is telling you. You'll be glad you did. And lets make 2026 the year you fully Free Your Voice! Happy Holidays! Julia Messy transcript [00:00:00] If you would like to give yourself the gift of a free voice in 2026, I am accepting a few, coaching students for the new year, so reach out to me. That could be for singing or public speaking confidence. My real area of expertise is about overcoming performance anxiety and stage fright, but also stepping into your whole voice. Through the process of individuation, which is a Jungian approach to becoming your full self. I've been a registered voice movement therapy practitioner for over 25 years. I've been a folk singer, a jazz singer. I have an award-winning lullaby album, and I'm an award-winning voice actor, so I know a few things. I don't know all the things, but I know a few things, and if you like my vibe and you think we could work together, I would love to help you on your journey to a free voice. Reach out to yourfreevoice.com and contact. See you then. Hello and welcome to [00:01:00] your Free Voice with me, your host, Julia Norton. This podcast is for people who use their voice professionally or for fun, and they want to understand how it works a bit better, or to get over old stories that might be holding them back. Whatever level you're playing at right now, my goal is to bring you lots of actionable stuff from the technical to the creative, to the deeply woo, to help you free your voice. Hello, hello, and welcome to episode 56. In this episode, we are coming right up on the solstice from where I'm recording this. The solstice begins really at dusk tomorrow till dawn on Sunday. This is a little late getting out to you, but I hope that it's helpful anyway, and just you can really just use it at this time of year when it's dark [00:02:00] and everything is drawing in, and I thought that. And when we are thinking about what we want to let go of, what hasn't been working for us this year, or that we've just had enough of and doesn't suit us anymore, and what we want to open into next year, and this is a very kind of quickie episode because of course, you know all the things are happening, but. I wanted to take some solstice rituals that I love and really put them into a voice user perspective. You know, for somebody that has their voice as their primary, either way of making a living or tool for communication in terms of the creativity and performance, all that kind of thing. So, if that's you, why don't you walk along with me here and try these practices. So if you want to, you could get yourself, uh, ready with a notebook. And a cup of tea, and we can just imagine that we are sitting next to a cozy fire together, and we're gonna jot these things down. You can [00:03:00] go into them in more depth by pausing the recording or just coming back and listening to this another time. Okay, so let's start. First of all, take a lovely quiet breath through the soles of your feet into your belly and releasing, feeling yourself connecting to the chair. Or maybe you're lying on the floor, but just reconnecting with your breath and your body. You don't need to change how you're breathing. You just need to notice that you're breathing. When we are talking about the solstice, the winter solstice in particular, there's a pause between the letting go. And they're taking in the new, it's that dark space where we're waiting for the transformation to happen. So let's just try a breathing exercise, first of all. So let's say, let's take the solstice in breath and [00:04:00] let's do the breathing for four. Hold for five and then out for seven, which is again, a lovely nervous reset, uh, when you're around. Uh, family, just overstimulated, all that kind of thing. So let's do this breathing practice together. Breathe in for four. 1, 2, 3, 4. Hold for five. Relax your body. Five and out for 7, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Let's do it one more time. So exhale, breathe in for four. 1, 2, 3. Four, hold for five. 1, 2, 3, 4, [00:05:00] 5. And exhale for seven. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Okay, so first action is coming into your breath. Second action is to write a ...
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    11 mins
  • 055 - 12 Tips for a Healthy Voice This Winter

    055 - 12 Tips for a Healthy Voice This Winter
    Dec 11 2025

    It's that time of year folks! 🎤 If you need your voice to make a living, share your message or bring the joy (I'm looking at you voice actors, podcast hosts and carol singers!!) ..keeping your voice in great shape should be a daily routine, but sometimes it's even more important.

    Like during the cold season :)

    In this episode I take you through my favorite remedies (many of which you can create in your own kitchen) and yu don't even need to take notes because you can grab my free guide Get that here.

    An episode full of simple remedies for prevention, relief and comfort, from saline to nebulizers, to self massage, it's all inside the guide.

    Stay healthy my friends 😷 ❤️

    Important disclaimer - I'm NOT a medical professional, but I've been coaching singers and actors for over 25 years and have found these remedies to be super helpful.

    Please help me get the word out about this podcast 🙏🏻 Follow rate and share with your friends especially the ones who need to step into their light and shine!🌟

    Follow me on Instagram: @julianortoncoaching
    Visit my website: Your Free Voice #voice #singing #vocalhealthtips #vocalhealth #voicecoach
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    24 mins
  • 054 Gratitude and a quiet breath

    054 Gratitude and a quiet breath
    Nov 26 2025

    This is a very quick episode as I'm actually prepping for Thanksgiving hosting, but I wanted to share.

    • Discover how to tweak your gratitude practice (or create one) so that you can begin to manifest your future. 🌟

    • It's not selfish to feel gratitude when so many are suffering… in fact it's essential. ❤️

    • An intention practice for when you're bustling through holiday traffic and shopping, to not add an extra burden to those you encounter… you don't know how many invisible things they are already carrying. 🙏🏻

    • And a quiet breath. 😮‍💨

    Please subscribe and rate and share with your friends and I would LOVE to welcome you to my community of open hearted voicey people, you can find me in all the following places, but the best stuff happens in my private newsletter my website

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    I'm so grateful for you!

    See you next time!

    Julia xox
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    9 mins
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