Workshops
Choose the workshop that would be most helpful to you and your students right now.
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Training Attention in an ADD World
You will learn:
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how some habits of attention get in your way
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why focus is better than concentration
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how to improve your sensory awareness
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how sensory awareness helps reduce performance anxiety
Alexander Technique
You will learn:
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how some habits of movement slow down your progress
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how whole body coordination produces ease in performance
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how everyday movements can help or hinder performance
What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body
6-hour course for whole body, shorter workshops for specific areas
You will learn:
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how faulty ideas about your structure produce faulty movement
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how to correct confusions about function, structure, and size of bones and joints
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how to base your teaching on accurate movement potential
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how Piano Moves and instrument-specific resources can guide you through the process
Now, Weight! A little bit of helpful physics
You will learn:
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how “weight” can become tension
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why it’s not possible to put weight into the keys - yes, I said that!
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how the piano action responds to speed
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why “relaxation” is a tricky word
Piano Moves: a spiral curriculum for Body Mapping in the piano studio
You will learn:
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how Body Mapping can get your students out of movement traps
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how to add Body Mapping to your teaching in a step-by-step method
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how to gain confidence when teaching anatomy
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how to use movement explorations and images to add fun to the lesson