In this episode, your hosts talk through Stephen and Jenevora's new paper, The Guarded Larynx. This paper was published in the Journal of Voice (2025) and discusses the concept and phenomena involved in 'guarding'.
If you are interested in learning more, why not join Stephen and Jenevora for their short course, aimed at clinicians and teachers at the link below:
https://voicecarecentre.co.uk/guarded-larynx/
The Intergrologist Conundrum
06/11/2025 | 1h 10 mins.
This fascinating and funny chat emerged from an absence of a question. Stephen, Robert and Jenevora explore the idea of the conundrums we face through linking the body, voice (and some ways) spirit, too.
The Anita Morrison Interview
26/09/2025 | 52 mins.
Jenevora and Robert are joined by Anita Morrison to talk about Feldenkrais training, lessons, philosophy, and practice. It’s not easy to describe a feeling and somatic learning experience in words, a bit like describing the taste of a mango. They did a wonderful job nonetheless. Please come and join Robert, Anita and Jenevora on November the 8th and/or 9th in London to explore your own feelings about the Feldenkrais experience: https://vocalhealth.co.uk/conversation-robert-sussuma/
The Failure Conversation
05/09/2025 | 1h 5 mins.
What about when things go wrong? This conversation happened several months ago but has only finished being edited. Jenevora, Robert and Stephen talk about the difficulty that we come across when things don't go well. Stephen tells a story about shower drains, Robert talks about disagreeableness leading to change and Jenevora shares insights from the studio.
This episode is full of laughter and fun and will take you on a philosophical journey to failure...
The Robert Price Interview
28/03/2025 | 1h 6 mins.
In this episode, Stephen interviews the legendary voice teacher Robert Price. Stephen and Robert talk about Robert's time in the circus as a metal clown, dropping out of law school and travelling the world teaching vocal massage. They also discuss the future of relational vocal massage and establish it -perhaps- as a method of Body Psychotherapy. Celebrating the launch of their co-authored book, The Handbook of Vocal Massage: A Relational Approach, this is a whirlwind episode best listened to in full.
For details on how to purchase the book, visit https://www.newvoicepublishing.co.uk/books/
The Thinking Voice podcast by Dr Jenevora Williams, Robert Sussuma and Stephen King is all about exploring the human voice through open conversation. The format of the podcast is split in to two types of episode; INTERVIEWS and CONVERSATIONS.The Interviews released will follow a standard interview format, with one host interviewing a special guest. The topic of conversation begins with how the guest journeyed into the world of Vocal Health, and often explores a more philosophical and idealistic avenue.The Conversations are played out in real time, and are unplanned musings between Dr Jenevora Williams, Stephen King and Robert Sussuma. These include phenomenological, existential, anatomic, pedagogic and experiential principles. Serious philosophy with some light-hearted interplay.The subject for these conversations is an unplanned topic, one of several that have been pre-set into a randomiser. In listening in, you will be steered down all kinds of cobbled conversational streets between the three hosts, unpicking relevant research or anecdotal concepts and “practice-based evidence”.
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