Catch Your Breath Online Exhibition
Stop where you are and take a deep breath.How does it feel?What does it make you think?How many breaths have…
Breath in Classical Singing
“Breath is the beginning and end of what we do as classical singers” Miranda Wright In this episode we turn…
Movement, stasis and interoception: unsettling the body
14-17 August 2018, Stockholm Life of Breath team members Jane Macnaughton and Andrew Russell will be joined by Anna Harris (Maastricht…
Breath in Vocal Technique
Tue 10 Jul, Durham If you missed it first time round, you have another chance to enjoy this lecture-recital conducted by…
Festival of Nature
9-10 June 2018, Bristol – 10am-6pm (Sat 9th) and 10am-5pm (Sun 10th) Life of Breath will be hosting a stall at…
Breath in Choral Singing
Mon 29 Jan, Durham The fourth event of the Arts of Breath series will be practical lecture-workshop conducted by Julian Wright…
Breath in Vocal Technique
Wed 17 Jan, Durham The third event of the Arts of Breath series will be practical lecture-workshop conducted by classical singing…
Arts of Breath
Various dates 2017/18, Durham Arts of Breath is a series of lecture-performances exploring the role of breath in poetry, fiction,…
Arts of Breath
Various dates 2017/18, Durham Arts of Breath is a series of lecture-performances exploring the role of breath in poetry, fiction,…
Under The Surface
Under the Surface is a choral piece composed by Toby Young which was specially commissioned for, and premiered at, the…
Singing for Lung Health Group
Every Wednesday 10:45am, Bristol A new singing group, specifically to help your lung health and breathing, running as a free…
Singing Away Shyness
Singing teacher Deborah Hudson writes: There I was, lying on a couch with a whole lot of acupuncture pins in…
Under the Surface
Composer and academic Toby Young writes: ‘Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living and art…
‘Out of his nostrils goeth smoke’: whales, whaling and breathing fire
In the second of a series of posts on cetaceans (see also ‘The cetaceans may give rise to some perplexity‘),…
The First and Last Breath: reflections from palliative & neonatal care
Kate Binnie, yoga teacher and music therapist, writes: In his brilliant book Being Mortal (2015) Atul Gawande calls for all…
Singing for Breathing
Vocal coach, community choir and workshop leader and music therapist Phoene Cave writes: In 2008 I answered an advertisement for…
Near-death experiences: mortality at Medicine Unboxed
Kate Binnie writes about the recent Medicine Unboxed conference (November 18th-20th, Cheltenham). Next year’s conference is on the theme of wonder…
‘I need security to survive’
Kate Binnie, yoga teacher and music therapist, shares a memory of a hospice patient: Paula wakes early every day and…
Making the invisible visible (2)
Rebecca Oxley, post-doctoral research fellow on the Life of Breath project, writes about the recent project launch in Durham (see…
Making the invisible visible (1)
Sarah McLusky, Project Manager (Durham) writes: What is breath? We all know what it feels like. We can perceive the…
Way up high
Jess Farr-Cox (Project Manager, Bristol) writes: Our recent official launch of the project was in many ways a model of…
‘Sing sweetly for tobacco!’
In the second of a series of posts about smoking (see also ‘A three-pipe problem’), Project Manager (Bristol) on the…