Catch Your Breath 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…
Under The Surface
Under the Surface is a choral piece composed by Toby Young which was specially commissioned for, and premiered at, the…
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…
Bristol Life of Breath Launch Event
The Life of Breath team and guests gathered at Royal Fort House on 14 May 2015 to launch the project…
‘A physical event’
Project Manager (Bristol) for Life of Breath Jess Farr-Cox writes: I have written elsewhere (see ‘Taking a deep breath’) about the…
‘There is something in there’
Project Manager (Bristol) for Life of Breath Jess Farr-Cox writes: The second Breathing Space meeting (see ‘Taking a deep breath’ for an…
