Case Study: Dr. Suwanna Gauntlett

Client Problem:

Severe Voice Strain, Loss of Projection, and Vocal Stamina

Suwanna experienced a complete lack of vocal impact, often straining to be heard in male-dominated business meetings, noisy helicopter flights, and other challenging situations.

Our Analysis:

Upon assessment, we identified several key areas contributing to Suwanna’s vocal challenges:

• Incorrect Vocal Technique: Speaking from the throat instead of the diaphragm, hindering effective communication. Incorrect and conflicting vocal placement due to being multilingual.
• Disassociation between Voice and Body: Poor understanding of body-voice integration leading to a lack of muscular vocal support.
• Historical Body Injuries: Leading to tension throughout the body and voice mechanisms.
• Incorrect Breath Technique and Control: Poor breathing technique leading to pressure on the throat, causing vocal strain.
• No Voice Projection or Strength: Resulting in severe vocal pain and a lack of sustainability and stamina when speaking.
• Vocal Problems: Leading to a feeling of less authority and a lack of personal confidence.
• Strong Voice Patterning: Leading to strain and inhibiting full voice and body expression.

Our Solution:

We implemented personalised strategies and exercises for both voice and body, including:

• Physical Alignment: Aligning the body for better posture and core muscle support. Implementing simple and effective physical exercises to understand fundamental core muscular function. Improved breath control to support the voice, leading to increased vocal health.
• Vocal Technique: Personalised exercises to improve vocal health and build up musculature for projection and stamina. Speaking from the diaphragm, enhancing articulation and pronunciation, projection, pitch, tone, confidence, and speaking rate. Re-placement of accent vowels and glottal stops.
• Presence, Presentation, and Camera Technique: Building a greater presence, confidence, and sense of authority through voice and body language in-person and on camera; using emotional recall for more creative narrative arc and storytelling on and off screen.

The Results:

Suwanna experienced significant improvements:

• Improved Body Alignment: Leading to muscular core strength which supports the breathing mechanism, allowing for better breath control, vocal health, and projection.
• Improved Vocal Technique: Enhanced breath control, vocal stamina, and projection, with techniques to soften accent-related vowels.
• Greatly Improved Vocal Health: Speaking with vocal variety, pitch, tone, rhythm, and vocal athletics.
• Correct Breath Control: Improved breath control to support the voice, increase vocal stamina, and projection.
• Improved Vocal Stamina: Leading to greater vocal sustainability with no strain or pressure on the throat and vocal cords, and a greater sense of vocal ownership, confidence, and authority.
• Projection: Greatly improved through better vocal health, vocal power, volume, and timbre.
• Script Refinement and Storytelling: A cohesive narrative arc taking pressure off the vocal cords by using an emotive narrative as well as data-led information.
• Authority of Voice: Enhanced ability to be effectively heard in male-dominated business scenarios and on a global platform, with greater vocal ability, technique, and confidence.

In Conclusion:

It has been our pleasure to work with Suwanna over the past three and a half years. Witnessing her dedication to improving her voice and everything she undertakes has been truly inspiring. From extremely poor vocal health, stamina, and projection, she has vastly improved with the V Vibration Voice Method. Her consistent efforts to improve body-voice alignment and vocal technique reflect her commitment to becoming a global orator and advocate for conservation.

We are proud to have supported Suwanna in her journey to vocal excellence and look forward to her continued success in the conservation community.