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Awareness Through Music Blog

What's in the Digital Library?

Members of my studio enjoy access to an exclusive space filled with resources for improving musicianship. This library currently includes practice strategy guides as well as over twenty movement lessons centered upon posture, breath, and general body awareness. New content will be added each month.

Wellness

The Quickstart Guide to Injury Recovery For Musicians

Wellness

Injury is no fun, but it happens at an alarmingly high rate among musicians. The exact number varies. In an Australian study of orchestral musicians, 84% reported pain or injury that interfered with their playing. In another study, 76% of musicians between ages nine and twenty-four reported that they had experienced pain during playing but only 56% felt like their complaints were taken seriously.

Wellness

To Breathe or Not to Breathe

Wellness

For me, the question of respiratory function and playing piano has been filled with frustration and uncertainty. To be we must breathe, and the way we breathe greatly impacts our quality of life and musicianship.

Wellness

Alternative Sized Keyboards Provide Relief for Small Hands

Wellness

Two weeks ago my friend Suzanne and I visited David Steinbuhler, founder of the D.S. Standard Foundation and builder of custom piano actions living in Titusville, Pennsylvania. The “action” of a piano includes the keys and hammers and all of the other moving parts. The name makes sense because this is where all the action happens! (Fun fact, this part of the piano has more moving parts than a car!) David custom builds piano actions with narrower key sizes, allowing the pianist to reach further distances while maintaining a more relaxed, less stretched, hand position.

Wellness

Performance

Reframing Performance Anxiety

Performance

The language we use to describe our experience has a major impact on our well-being. It’s not that we should paint over our negative feelings with positive ones, but that we should aim to use language that is both accurate and promotes feelings of safety and well-being. The efficacy of reappraising "performance anxiety" as "performance excitement" is supported by research and is a simple trick that's a huge game changer.

Performance

Practice

Preparing for an Online Movement Class

Practice

GETTING READY FOR AN ONLINE FELDENKRAIS CLASS? BELOW ARE SOME QUICK TIPS FOR CREATING A COMFY, COZY LEARNING SPACE A HOME.

Practice

FREE PRACTICE GUIDE

The Fostering Fluidity practice guide contains a chart of over fifty practice strategies to help you play with greater ease. Click below to download the PDF.