about
about
Carmelle Moore
(B.App. Sc. Speech Pathology, MSPA, C.P.S.P)
I am passionate about supporting the full expression of the true nature of every individual.
I enjoy working with teachers, singers, yoga teachers, presenters or anyone wanting more flexibility and freedom with their voice. My approach is holistic, creative and sensitively tailored to the individual.
I am committed to assisting your alignment with your essential nature, so that your voice reflects who you really are. Your voice then resonates in a way that allows you and others to experience your fullest presence.
I consider myself very fortuante to be living and teaching in the Byron Bay area for the past 22 years.
about
Speech Pathology
In 1985 I graduated, with distinction, as a Speech Pathologist (B.App. Sc. Speech Pathology, MSPA, C.P.S.P.,). Since this time I have worked with individuals and groups in a wide range of settings. For the past 26 years I have specialised in the treatment and enhancement of voice production. I am a committed member of the Australian Voice Association.
My teaching embraces the alchemy of art, science and interpersonal therapy that voice-work encompasses.
I am constantly creatively inspired by working with voices and the changes created in peoples lives.
I consider myself fortunate to have attended and presented at early Australian Voice Symposiums at the beginning of communication and cross fertilization between voice professional scientists and artists: Speech Pathologists, Ear Nose & Throat Specialists, Singers, Teachers of Singing, Actors, Theatre Voice Teachers and Vocal Coaches.
A foundational inspiration for my work was an intensive “VoiceCraft” workshop in 1996 with Dr. Alison Bagnall who incorporated Jo Estills work, Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement, and Speech Pathology pedagogical approaches.
I am grateful for the guidance and expertise of Dr. Pamela Davis and Prof. Dianna Kenny whilst undertaking my postgraduate research on yoga and the voice at the Australian Centre for Applied Research in Music Performance (formerly the National Voice Centre, Sydney University). This period provided many opportunities for extensive exposure to a wide range of approaches to understanding and working with the voice (for speaking and singing). I was privileged to attend lectures, workshops and conferences with Kristin Linklater, Cicely Berry, Frankie Armstrong, William Weiss, Prof. Johan Sundberg and many other leaders in the field of voice. I enjoyed collegiate discussions and support whilst presenting my work at conferences alongside somatic based voice professionals including Catherine Fitzmaurice and Joan Melton. I am delighted to have had the opportunity to share my reflections on my clinical practice applying yoga in voice therapy at the Pan European Voice Conference in Marseille in September 2011 and to publish in the Logopedics, Phoniatrics, Vocolology Journal in 2012. Logoped Phoniatr Vocol. 2012 Dec;37(4):144-50. doi:10.3109/14015439.2012.731080. Reflections on clinical applications of yoga in voice therapy with MTD. Moore C.
Yoga training and experience
The essential yoga of effortless alignment to our natural state of well-being, has been key in my yoga training and has been much influenced by the tradition of Advaita Vedanta, for example; Ramana Maharshi, Gangagi, Mooji.
I have also undertaken extensive training in both hatha style and meridian based yoga. In 2000, I gained my Diploma in teaching Ki Yoga (Japanese style meridian based yoga) and have been teaching yoga since. In 1999 I attended the International Conference on Yoga Therapy Research at VK YOGAS, Bangalore and studied “Voice Culture” yoga therapy in India. I am very appreciative of the principles of precision, effectiveness and safety of teaching developed whilst studying Anatomy & Physiology and practising with expert yogi and physiotherapist, Simon Borg – Olivier at Yoga Synergy, Sydney. I consider myself extremely fortunate to have had Simon as one of my first hatha yoga teachers and an ongoing mentor. In Byron Bay I have studied with more wonderful teachers, particularly Jennifer Norman, Louise Solomon (Yoga Lates) and Rachel Zinman-Jones. Further yoga teacher training with Rachel – Zinman Jones in the Ishta system allowed me to bring together many threads of hatha yoga, tantra and ayurveda. It was a profound blessing to study in this lineage of Yoga which was influenced by: Paramahansa Yogananda, Venkatnsananda (Shivananda lineage), Nisreyasananda (an engineer with a very scientific approach to his Rama Krishna lineage) and Bharati (who taught the science of Tantra). I have also been influenced by many workshops and intensives completed with a range of wonderful teachers. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with Mark Whitwell whose faithful teaching of the core hatha yoga breathing process originally taught by Krishnamacharya, is often a key to achiving optimal voice.
I am currently in the process of completing the Advanced Certificate Program in ‘Bones for Life’ a development of the work of Moshe Feldenkrais by Ruthy Alon, one of his original students. The use of rhythm to by-pass resistance, sound vibration, neurological doplomacy and whole body re-patterning provide a beautiful, effective and easily accessible means of organically aligning the body to allow support and freedom for voice production.
