Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

Powerful Speaking is (full) bodytalk!

Ever experienced twitching knees, a desert-dry mouth, sudden beads of stage sweat, or shaking hands – just yours - when presenting yourself?

Speaking involves your entire body, more so than just your voice.

Just as you lose power when certain body parts seemingly fall out, it's crucial to engage your innermost being when wanting to impact your audience.

The deeper your connection with anything happening within your body as a whole, the stronger the bond with your listener, and the more transparent and complete your communication becomes. When showing yourself completely, your listener will perceive you as trustworthy, confident, genuine, and - as one of my fANNtastic coaches, Ria Bauhofer, often puts it, 'unmessable'.

I see clients keeping their bodies stiff, almost rigid, with minimal movement below their necks and heads, barely allowing enough air. This approach doesn't work.

To speak fluently, one must BECOME FLUENT and allow the breath to resonate from and within the entire body. Sometimes it seems as though we resist certain parts of our being, myself included, as if we fear something inside us will show that will 'ruin everything,' potentially leading to our entire presentation being rejected.

If you were labelled as 'bold', 'clumsy', 'loud', 'exaggerated', etc., as a child, you may still be struggling to mask, cover, or control those - perceived - annoying traits.

In my practice, I often witness people consciously or unconsciously avoiding incorporating all of their being into their presentations. Many clients tend to speak solely from the upper part of their body, resulting in a 'thin' voice and strained breathing, which can lead to hoarseness and sometimes even cause them to abandon their speaking task.

Personally, I've learned that there's no such thing as positive or negative traits. Your focus determines which side of the coin you engage with. What's 'bold' to one person is 'confident' to another. Similarly, 'clumsy' can be seen as 'spontaneous', 'loud' as 'expressive', and 'exaggerated' as simply 'enthusiastic'.

So, speak freely with EVERYTHING that speaks to and within you, engaging your entire body. Relax knowing you can instANNtly reverse any self-judgment, like a sparkling gold coin.

​Speaking powerfully and authentically means sharing yourself completely, authentically, from and with every single part of your body, from head to shoulders, knees, and toes!

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