🎄Holiday 2025 Challenge

The holidays can be a whirlwind, but they also offer a beautiful opportunity to slow down, reconnect with your voice, and share music in a spirit of joy and generosity. Our tonebase Voice Holiday 2025 Challenge is designed to bring a sense of grounding, creativity, and community into a busy season—through small, meaningful prompts that fit easily into real life. Whether you’re singing between gatherings, carving out a few quiet minutes for yourself, or simply looking to stay inspired, we’re so glad you’re here. Let’s celebrate the season together, one mindful musical moment at a time.

Two Weeks · Six Activities · One Stronger Voice

Celebrate the season by grounding your technique, reconnecting with artistry, and sharing your voice with the tonebase community. Each prompt is designed to be short, doable, and meaningful, even in the middle of holiday chaos.
Participants post inside the tonebase forum using video or audio (or text, if preferred).

WEEK 1 — “Warmth & Foundation”

Focus: Breath, resonance, and ease during a busy season.

🔹 Activity 1 — Holiday Breath Reset

Task: Share a 30–60 second video showing your favorite calming breath exercise (e.g., silent inhale, straw breathing, low-release exhale).
Prompt: How do you reset your system when life feels hectic?
Goal: Reduce tension and create space for efficient holiday singing.

🔹 Activity 2 — One-Line Resonance Check

Task: Pick one line of a seasonal song or aria (carol, hymn, art song, whatever you love) and record it using a simple resonance check: hum ➝ vowel ➝ text.
Prompt: What changed when you prioritized vibration over volume?
Goal: Reconnect with forward resonance and sensation-based singing.

🔹 Activity 3 — “Gift Yourself” Practice Moment

Task: Share a 1-minute clip of a mindful practice moment — scales, sirens, or a gentle warm-up that feels nourishing.
Prompt: What micro-habit are you committing to this season to stay vocally grounded?
Goal: Build consistency through small, sustainable actions.

WEEK 2 — “Joy & Expression”

Focus: Interpretation, storytelling, and artistic play.

🔹 Activity 4 — Lyric Connection Spotlight

Task: Speak (not sing) 4–6 lines from a winter or holiday text, focusing on meaning, color, and emotional intention.
Prompt: What word or phrase revealed something new when you spoke it aloud?
Goal: Strengthen interpretive clarity before adding vocal complexity.

🔹 Activity 5 — Festive Phrase Challenge

Task: Sing a single phrase from any seasonal repertoire and experiment with one interpretive choice: dynamic shape, articulation, tempo play, or color.
Prompt: What artistic risk did you take? How did it change the musical moment?
Goal: Explore expressive freedom without pressure to “perfect.”

🔹 Activity 6 — Community Carols / Holiday Sharing

Task: Post a short clip (15–60 sec) of a holiday song, lullaby, hymn, or winter piece you love — sung casually, even in pajamas.
Prompt: Tell us why this piece matters to you.
Goal: Celebrate community, connection, and seasonal joy.

As we bring this Holiday Challenge to a close, take a moment to honor the small steps, gentle check-ins, and creative sparks you cultivated over these two weeks. Even in the busiest season, you showed up for your voice—and that matters. We hope these prompts brought you connection, clarity, and a little extra light. Keep singing, keep sharing, and know that your tonebase Voice community is here cheering you on as you carry this momentum into the new year.