Ting Song - Qi Gong For Singers

Hi my name is Darren Clarke and I’ve been singing, acting and making music for nearly three decades. 
My study of singing and singers has been parallel with my practise of Qi Gong and has similarities to more modern practices of Alexander Technique, Feldenkreis and other amazing systems that work with breathing and body mechanics in order to release unnecessary tensions that don’t serve us as individuals or our singing and performance.
For me singing and Qi Gong is about how the body breathes us and not just how we breathe. It’s also about kinaesthesia (self and body awareness) and proprioception (awareness of ourselves in space and time) and how paying attention by listening to our bodies (ting) can help with our intentions. 

“The whole organism is perverse because the brain is split from the belly and the head unconscious of its union with the tail.” 
Alan Watts , The Wisdom of Insecurity 

“…The whole human being is the instrument, not only the larynx.” 
Baritone Thomas Quasthoff.