Breathing exercises are fine but what about when you have to sing a song?Is breathy sound in singing always bad? Can you sing healthily with abducted vocal folds?What's the difference between breathy and leaky sound?And should you be breathing in through your mouth or your nose? Dr Gillyanne Kayes and Jeremy Fisher dive into the answers to all these questions in this Golden Nuggets. This is part 2 of our Golden Nuggets on breathing - it's such a huge topic for singers and singing teachers, and we have so many resources already in the Learning Lounge, in our books and in this podcast series. And in Inspiration of the Week Jeremy talks about overwhelm, the prefrontal cortex and finding yourself doing strange things You can go straight to the Learning Lounge and dive into 600+ videos and resources on singing, voice and performance, including our Troubleshooting Breathing webinar, here https://vocal-process-hub.teachable.com/p/the-vocal-technique-learning-loungeOr check out the video version of this podcast on our YouTube channel here https://youtu.be/rb7TVvB-TaQ Read Dr Emma Kavanagh's article here https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/24/invisible-threat-had-pushed-us-to-limits-small-wonder-our-brains-overwroughtOr sign up for the newsletter to read Jeremy's articles on superpowers and brain fry here https://vocalprocess.co.uk/build-your-own-tilting-larynx/