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Alise Ojay graduated with a first class degree in Philosophy from the University of York, UK and later qualified as a Dramatherapist. Singing has always been her love and she was a founding member of the Natural Voicework Practitioners' Network which promotes singing as a natural expression, open to all. She directs a community choir in Devon, specialising in unaccompanied part-songs from around the world and a choir for University students at the University of Exeter. She also delights in performing 'a cappella' with two friends as AmaVoché. Alise has researched the use of singing exercises to reduce snoring as an Honorary Research Fellow at Complementary Medicine, Peninsula Medical School, UK (formerly the Department of Complementary Medicine, University of Exeter). From June 2005 she began collaborating on a controlled trial of her "Singing for Snorers" exercise programme taking place at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital (Wonford).
Alise first had the idea that singing might reduce snoring when talking with a friend who was troubled by his snoring. Having explored different singing traditions from around the world, Alise was very familiar with the inside of her own throat and how different kinds of singing exercised it. She immediately wondered whether a well-toned throat would be so inclined to vibrate in the very lax-sounding way her friend's throat vibrated when he demonstrated his snoring noise. Thus began a quest.
First of all Alise discovered that Dr. Elizabeth Scott, a medical doctor living in Scotland, had tried singing exercises on her snoring patients. She claimed to have had considerable success (27), but had been unable to carry out a clinical trial.
