A Voice Apart

When the person with a voice disorder is trying to live a (so to speak) normal life, he/she is definitely experiencing some difficulties in communication with others; nevertheless, at their work place and even in their family lives. They are usually very frustrated with their voice which is not, by far, sounding the same as before. They are also not very well understood and are, quite often, being asked several times to repeat or to reiterate what they were trying to say. That makes those people with voice disorders understandably very irritable and overall, very emotional. They feel like they are handicapped (in a manner of speaking), and understandably so. Some of them are so disillusioned that they carry with them a sign, advising the strangers that they have difficulty to speak. Others who have lost the hope to regain a normal voice are even starting to learn sign language.  How sad is that?  A lot of those people have lost hope with respect of living their norma

Needless to say that lately, especially since the recession kicked in, people became even more stressed out than before opposed to when they had good jobs, decent money to live on, and reasonable family lives. I always said that the voice is the spirit and it does reflect the state of the persons’ being. When the persons’ livelihood is in jeopardy and his/her world falls to pieces, it is no wonder that their spirit will be very down and, respectively, their voice will start sounding much lower in tone, much more stressed, less announced and with much less clarity. In some cases, the voice gets so laid back that it begins to gradually fall onto the lower part of the throat; and thus begins to sound very dull and somewhat hoarse .  Then the person might experience what’s called acid reflux , as the voice is drawn so low, that it evidently meets gastric acid. The person will experience the burning on the back of the vocal cords and sometimes even difficulty of breathing m

Naturally, since I am in the voice repair business, I have been getting a lot of calls and e-mails from people with various voice problems  and voice disorders. Some of them had those problems for the longest time (in some cases even for 30 years and longer)! Nevertheless, the long-time sufferers were pretty much adjusted to their adapted lifestyles, as they thought that they tried pretty much everything, but nothing worked for them. So, on that premise, they were trying to learn how to "live with it"...? Can you blame them? In a real sense... YES and NO. No, because they have suffered enough and were unable to find the desired solution. Yes, because they probably did not try hard enough and, nonetheless, did not try smart enough. At least that category of people whose voice problems /disorders were actually treatable and even, partially curable. The category of people described above, probably - and most likely, gave up too fast and too soon. Not too

Given what’s written by Evie Bonella below, we could easily make a projection to the rapidly upcoming Year 2014. The best is certainly yet to come for our very dedicated and extremely focused former voice repair client, Evelyn Bonella. She still remains to be our client, but now to become a professional opera singer. And, as her voice repair ordeal is finally behind her, nothing will stop us from prospering this beautiful girl full of dreams and hopes to a professional opera world. We hope that one day soon, she will serenade us, (and the whole world for that matter), with her newly found, beautiful coloratura soprano. We also know for a fact that she will never experience any vocal problems ever again, as now, Vocal Science technique became her… “Hi Diana, I am writing to thank you for helping me achieve my dreams this year.  You made the impossible, possible. I never would have believed over a year ago that I would have recorded 2 songs, started auditioning i

From Cindy G. Official “I’ve known Diana Yampolsky for quite a while.   I took lessons from her since I was 17, which would be now 10-11 years ago. Due to family circumstances, I had to take quite a significant break and now almost 10 years later, I am back in her studio. Due to the heavy-duty emotional impact, my throat nearly closed and I was not able to squeak a sound for the longest time. When I came back to experience more of Vocal Science and also treat my vocal anatomy, and along with that get into the needed balance, I realized that singing and music is my calling, and my life assignment. Diana has done a lot of counselling with me, as well as, a lot of herbal and homeopathic treatments for my voice and for my physical and emotional being to bring me back on track. It took some time, but now my voice is ready to soar.   My vocal anatomy is strong and healthy and can withhold any amount of sound. I can last for hours and my voice will never