It's really important to work on your posture as a speaker, it helps you to look a lot more confident onstage. And there are also things that it does that relate to nerves are going to make you feel a lot more confident. So let's take a look at how you should be using the body when you're speaking. First of all, and this is a real thelia ism, I want you to have heavy legs. So Stan, now with me with both feet hip width apart on the floor, and really enjoy feeling the connection to the earth. That connection is there to support you.

You want to be really careful that you're not lifting one foot off the floor when you're speaking to very, very common, particularly I find in women who often like to cross their legs, which doesn't look good, it looks like you have a very narrow base and therefore could easily topple over. So make sure that both in your warm up like this and when you're onstage that you try as much as you can to stay on both feet and have very heavy legs. On top of that, we want to stack the spine nice and naturally above that heavy platform. That means that you're going to have a natural S curve in the spine. We don't want to be to military like this, because what that does, if you listen to my voice is it introduces Tension up here and the voice gets really high. So you want to relax the body and just let it be stacked up nice and evenly on top of this heavy base.

And a good way to do that is to imagine that you have a golden thread coming out of the crown of the head reaching up into the sky, just pulling you upwards nicely. It's a really lovely feeling. So allow yourself to be connected at the top. This is where you're going to get your inspiration from. If you're ever stuck. I want you to look up and trust that you will think of something today.

So get your feelings of support from no connection at the bottom and you're feeling a bit lost. From your connection at the top. A very quick way to see whether you're going to be in the right position for speaking, is to do a very simple exercise that I call the corkscrew. So if you get a chance to go on stage first, before you're speaking and test out the space, you can do this as well. I just want you to raise your arms up, and those your arms should be pointing towards the corners of the room. This is another way of measuring the space that you're going to speak in, breathe anything out.

And then breathe out and bring the arms down as you bring them down. Don't change anything else about your posture. So this helps you to relax, but it also sets the chest in the right place for where you should be speaking. It's very open. It's very, very slightly tipped back, which allows you to pull up the head and it's a good confident power pose. So try to use the corkscrew as a very quick cheat anytime that you need to.

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