Books about Voices by Angela Caine

VoiceGym Book - get to know your voice

VoiceGym Book contains the background, teaching experience and research, sometimes in disciplines not previously related to voice, that has created VoiceGym. This book updates information on important issues with chapters on ...

Early development
Breathing
The importance of tongue position,
The function of face muscles and how to maintain their efficient function
Balance and posture
Jaws and teeth
How to manage a voice for life

... and much more.

Simple diagrams, models and photographs make clear the interaction between brain, body and voice. This multidisciplinary approach will help you to think out of the box and question received wisdom when this is not supplying the answers that you need.

VoiceGym Book is ...

A book for the development and understanding of voice in the 21st Century
A book to bring together all the fragmented information related to voice and explain how it interacts to give efficient speech and singing to everyone
A book to explain to singers, actors, teachers and other professional voice users the links between functional anatomy, dentistry and skeletal misalignment and the danges of ignoring structural integrity and function..

VoiceGym Book costs £17.95 from the VoiceGym shop

The Devil Within - the story of recovering a lost voice

Reviewed in Positive Health, July 2007, by David Hefferon

Few people realise what an important role the voice plays in all aspects of your life. 'The Devil Within' is Angela Caine's story of the failure of her singing career and the discovery that, even though the problems with her voice were affecting her whole life, no one could solve them or even considered they were important. It is the passionate 'gloves off' story of the struggle to recover personal power and the quality of life, through finding the way to recover her voice.

The determination that quality speech and singing should be available to everyone went on to be the incentive for the development of VoiceGym and Early VoiceGym. Along the way she discovered the lottery of dental care and the way most dentists ignore the way the teeth interact with the rest of the body, the lack of any voice development in education, even for teachers and the lack of any cohesive physical fitness training and maintenance for the developing singer.

It is a poignant story that touches everyone who has ever asked "Does my voice really express who I am?" It is also a stark warning to those who don't think it's important.

It promoted the design of Early VoiceGym because throughout my life it has become increasingle clear that generation by generation children in the Western world are losing the fundamental freedom to develop through play while increasing their chances of acquiring more and more health and life problems through poor development of posture, voice and dentition in the early years. What happened to me fifty years ago should not be happening now but it is ... all the time.