I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.
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Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.
At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath.
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.
Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.
I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us.
Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.
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