💫🎤🌈🗣️Vocal Qigong: Jump that Octave Like Judy Garland (AKA Press Shoulders)

I love to sing and I love to do qigong. Both are better when you do them together. In this video I talk about using a relatively simple qigong move, Press Shoulders or Shoulder Press, to aid you as you move your voice up and down the musical scale.

In particular, I talk about how to use the movement to help you jump all the way up an octave. I use the most famous song from "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), "Over the Rainbow" by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg , which opens with an octave jump, to demonstrate how to use the movement of your body to support the movement of your voice.

I learned everything I know about qigong and some of what I know about singing from Malcolm and Annie Dean, who founded and run Luminous Ground Online Tai Chi and Qigong Classes.

Malcolm & Annie teach Press Shoulders better than I ever could. In fact, Malcolm gave me the idea for this video by mentioning vaudeville as he demonstrated the move in class. You can learn more about Press Shoulders here:    • MORNING QIGONG = Tuesday, Jan 13, 2026, 8:...  

You can register to study with Malcolm & Annie here:
http://luminousground.com/

If you want to feel 100% better in the new year, I highly recommend this class. This class helps me start the day on the right foot every single daty. @Malcolm is a real-life Obi-Wan Kenobi and @Annie has taught me more about art through her qigong practice than any art teacher ever has.

They offer a daily live qigong practice over Zoom every morning Pacific time. This is a perfect way to work on your singing, or your living! You can follow along with their daily practice on YouTube. They post almost every single day:
/ @luminousgroundschooloftaij1500