where is the diaphragm live in the body where's my diaphragm right here singers learn something about this when you teach a singer to sing what are they taught anybody singer in here what are singers taught sing from that what does that mean sing from the diaphragm it means let's try this for a second when you breathe in what is you what what is it we'll call it your stomach for right now but it's really your diaphragm when I breathe in what should my diaphragm do if I breathe in it should expand gee no you're right and then when I breathe out comes back in the problem is most people struggle to use their diaphragm when they speak most people speak from their throat not from their diaphragm when I speak from my throat it kind of sounds like I'm in this little teeny bottle and you can't really hear it but when I speak from my diaphragm and I let my words float off my mouth the air flowed out of my mouth and the words floating on top of the words it sounds more resonant whatever my natural tone is will come out this is why the great singers do this the problem is most people don't know how to coach themselves to speak from the diaphragm well let's change that I actually had a singing coach for around three years I'm not a very good singer which is why I need a singing coach but I learned something really cool about the diaphragm this coach taught me this I'm gonna model this for you now it turns out that when you lay on your back and I'm gonna do that for you now so you can see this when you lay on your back you cannot possibly not breathe well so watch this when I lay on my back I have to breathe from my diaphragm I can't talk in my throat at all it's all my natural resonant tone can't change it this is how I actually sound when I was born but most people don't know that and then they'll get in front of people and they'll talk like that and they'll start to talk in their throat especially when they get nervous and they won't sound like they're normal diaphragm self see the difference resonance non resonance