The holiday season is beautiful… but it can also be overwhelming. Between family gatherings, travel, year-end responsibilities, and emotional ups and downs, vocal practice often takes a backseat.
Yet your voice practice is one of the best ways to stay centered. It grounds your energy, reconnects you to your body, and restores confidence, creativity, and inner calm.
Even if you can’t practice as much as usual, small, intentional moments can keep your voice strong, expressive, and connected. Here are 8 practical tips based on voice coaching and EmbodiedVoice® practices.
Tip 1. Find Your 5 Minutes
You don’t need a long practice session to see results. Just five intentional minutes of humming, breathwork, or gentle slides can:
- Release tension
- Keep vocal cords agile
- Reduce performance anxiety
- Reconnect you to your body
- Support the mind–body–voice connection
Choose one small practice — lip trills, humming, or your favorite warmup — and do it daily. In voice coaching, quality often matters more than quantity.
2. Use Your Voice While You’re Already Doing Something
Your voice doesn’t only belong in your practice space. Try incorporating gentle vocalization into daily routines:
- Hum while cooking
- Do soft sirens in the shower
- Practice breathwork on a morning walk
- Harmonize with music during car rides
These micro-practices keep your voice awake and expressive. Integrating your voice into daily life is a key principle in holistic voice coaching.
3. Make Your Voice a Tool for Stress Release, Not One More ‘To-Do’
The holidays can bring joy, nostalgia, and sometimes overwhelm. Your voice is a powerful tool for regulating your nervous system. Sound moves stuck energy and creates internal spaciousness through vibration and breath.
Try:
- Long, audible exhales
- Humming into your chest
- Gentle mantra or toning
Voice coaching often combines these practices for both technical development and emotional wellbeing.
4. Practice One Song (or One Line) You Love
Simplify your artistic focus this season:
- Pick one song
- One chorus
- Or a single uplifting line
Sing it daily with curiosity and ease. Consistent repetition builds vocal muscle memory and emotional connection — a principle emphasized in voice coaching.
5. Remember the playfulness!
Mindset changes everything. Approaching your voice with play instead of pressure softens the nervous system and opens your sound. Visualize singing on stage as a joyful experience rather than a performance — a simple shift that can dramatically improve results in voice coaching sessions.
6. Give Yourself Permission to Be Where You Are
Self-judgment can block your voice. Practice compassion this season. Your voice thrives when your body and mind feel gentle, open, and relaxed.
Therapeutic, embodiment-based voice coaching supports you emotionally, energetically, and technically — the foundation of the EmbodiedVoice® approach.
7. Sing for friends, family or your community!
Singing for others is nourishing and connects you to your community. Authenticity matters more than perfection.
Ideas to share your voice:
- Volunteer for holiday songs in your community
- Attend an open mic
- Join a performance masterclass
- Gather friends or family to sing together
Sharing your voice builds confidence and connection — a principle reinforced in voice coaching programs.
8. Closing thoughts
If your practice looks different this month, that’s okay.
You’re still a singer. You’re still a powerful speaker.
You’re still growing.
You’re still connected.
Your voice doesn’t disappear when life gets busy.
It just asks to be met with presence in a new way.
Even 5 minutes of embodied practice keeps your channel open, your confidence alive, and your artistry expanding.
Want to go deeper?
If you’re ready to fully activate your voice, heal blocks and sing or speak with masterful technique and confidence, there are several ways I can support you:
✨Join a Vocal Workshops to connect with your voice and practice in a safe space.
✨Book a brief 1×1 Voice Consultation so we can talk in more depth about what you’re looking for and what would be the best fit for you, whether that’s 1×1 voice lessons, group classes, or drop-in workshops.
And remember, your voice is sacred.
It’s not just about sounding “good” (although, the practices will make your voice sound good as a natural by-product 😉 ).
Rather, it is about being true. And as a result, your voice comes out authentic to you. Your unique vocal blueprint.
This holiday season, allow your voice to ring out with clarity, power, and love! Share the joy!