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I had a music teacher who insisted we exercise breathing in such a way that we could hear our lungs touching our ribcage. He held his hands in the air, signaling that we should keep opening and opening our chests to gain a sense of all the organs implicated in singing. “Two tubes are connecting your insides now with the windows to the exterior world!” — he meant the esophagus and the trachea, while the windows were the nose and the mouth. Singing, he thought, was meant both for our inner organs and the outer world.
I never thought much about it until one day — during the pandemic — I saw an interview given by a Buddhist nun talking about the importance of getting to know our inner organs. She said, rightfully, that Western culture talks non-stop about the body and yet has no interest in gaining proper knowledge about what is inside us. She implied that because we can’t see our inner organs, they remain abstract — and this is very misleading. Our organs are far from…
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I had a music teacher who insisted we exercise breathing in such a way that we could hear our lungs touching our ribcage. He held his hands in the air, signaling that we should keep opening and opening our chests to gain a sense of all the organs implicated in singing. “Two tubes are connecting your insides now with the windows to the exterior world!” — he meant the esophagus and the trachea, while the windows were the nose and the mouth. Singing, he thought, was meant both for our inner organs and the outer world.
I never thought much about it until one day — during the pandemic — I saw an interview given by a Buddhist nun talking about the importance of getting to know our inner organs. She said, rightfully, that Western culture talks non-stop about the body and yet has no interest in gaining proper knowledge about what is inside us. She implied that because we can’t see our inner organs, they remain abstract — and this is very misleading. Our organs are far from…
