Dominika Plonka unpacks the physiology and acoustics behind the exercises you already teach - so you can stop borrowing methods and design your own.

You already use lip trills, double resistors and octave scales. Dominika Plonka shows you what is happening inside them. She lays out registers from three angles - physiology (M0 to M3, CT/TA coordination), acoustics (first and second formant tuning, open versus closed timbre) and vibrotactile sensation - then connects each to exercise choice. You will cover good flips versus bad flips, air-muscle balance, tongue and jaw position, the cobra tongue tip, soft palate work for nasal students, glissandi for stability, voiced versus voiceless consonants, and the consonant-vowel pairings (G, K, NG, Z) that pre-set the vowel you want. For teachers who want to invent exercises, not copy them.