Instructor Often performers find that habits of unnecessary tension and muscular strain are getting in the way of practice, performance, and daily life. The Alexander Technique helps one function more comfortably and effectively. It is a simple and practical method that teaches us to redirect tension into useful energy. For the last 80 years many performers have found this technique, taught in many conservatories and theater programs, to be a useful tool for improving perception, posture, coordination, and control. Small introductory classes run for seven weeks with the option of continuation.
Private lessons are also available at the private instrumental rate.
In these weekend intensives, we integrate the practice of yoga into your practice of music. Yoga addresses the central issues in technical mastery of our instruments and opens the way to emotional and spiritual expression. As we build a strong and open body through yoga, we find new ways to play faster, slower, louder, softer, higher, and lower. We also find new ways to learn concentration and to redirect performance anxiety into performance energy. We learn to be sensitive enough to our own pain and tension to learn how to prevent injury over the long stretch as we build our virtuoso techniques.