Performance Anxiety Coaching
Jann Arden has it so does Barbara Streisand and Canadian superstar Shania Twain.
What is it they have? Performance Anxiety, or some call it Stage Fright.
Just what would we learn if we really got close to this energy? If we began to understand it and make it friend, rather than foe.
The Anxiety...
So you’ve worked really hard on your art, whether that’s singing, dancing, acting or speaking.
You’ve spent years developing, practicing and honing your talent and you want to share it with your audience.
You’ve developed your voice and you feel confident in singing when you’re offstage but when the show approaches you can feel the anxiety begin to build in you.
Sometimes you’re excited about performing and sometimes you’re scared and you can’t control this flip flop of emotions in you.
When the big day arrives you wait backstage in anticipation of the moment you will step onto the stage.
You feel fearful and anxious and feel like there’s nothing you can do about it.
When you reach the stage the grip in your stomach has increased, there’s a pressure in your head and you feel a tightness in your chest.
‘Just get through it,’ you tell yourself but you can’t wait for it to be over.
You enjoyed some of it but you wonder will this always be my experience of performing?
Will I always feel anxious or fearful and never get to really feel comfortable on stage?
Performance anxiety is crippling but there is a way out of this habitual cycle and into experiencing performances that are filled with confidence, relaxation, passion and joy.
Vocal Coach and Health Professional Anna has been speaking, writing and teaching about Performance Anxiety for many years.
She takes artists back-stage to see what is really happening with this anxiety. Anna speaks from personal experience of her own crippling anxiety’s that appeared hours, days or weeks before a performance and what she has learned over the years to understand this anxiety.
The business of being human and feeling all that artists feel on stage and beforehand is Anna Beaumont’s business. In her work of The Natural Voice Anna helps artists not only to understand what they are feeling but can help them to rewire their nervous systems back to a state of balance through various tried and true practices.
A Health Professional in Integrative Body Psychotherapy, Singer and Voice Teacher for 25 years Anna has studied the voice and body through the eyes of the nervous system as well as the meat and bones of our human emotions.
She speaks eloquently about this taboo subject and helps everyone uncover a little more harmony, relaxation and ease inside of themselves.
“Anna created the perfect environment – warm, friendly, and inviting. I felt safe to explore and experiment. Her approach allowed me to coax my voice out from shy hiding, swirl it within my body, and pay attention and intention to where in my body my voice was picking up energy. My voice emerged like I had not heard it before! Was that me?!?! My goal of pushing my comfort level with my singing voice was absolutely accomplished. Thank you Anna for your guidance, wisdom, and openness. ”
