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Quantum Leaps
Have you ever made a quantum leap in your practicing? You’ve tried, and tried. Put in more and more effort. Doggedly plugged away forever. And still you don’t get it. Until one day, you let go somehow. Maybe you stepped away for a while, and you’re less invested in getting it perfect now. And lo [...]
You can be a good musician. Or, you can be….
Recently, I discovered a wonderful blog by Jeffrey Agrell and Evan Mazunik on improvisation. They recently posted an equally great quote by podcast interviewee Stephen Nachmanovitch which I think bears repeating: “You don’t have to practice boring exercises, but you have to practice something. If you find the practice boring, you don’t run away from [...]
Happy new year!
Checking in to say that I am now an official teacher of the Alexander Technique! It’s been a long, life-changing and thoroughly worth it road to get here. I’ll say more about the details of my story in later posts. For now, however, I am thrilled to say that I am offering lessons here in [...]
Announcing: Enhanced Lessons!
How are things in your musical world? Otherwise? I have been busy this fall with the onset of a new group of young violin students. Enthusiastic, full of energy – often hard to direct that energy towards the study of the violin, but that is the special joy/challenge of grade schoolers! However, I have a [...]
New article up on MajoringinMusic.com!
You can see the article I wrote for MajoringinMusic.com on the Alexander Technique for music majors! The photo above and on the article is of Robert Rickover of AlexanderTechnique.com and the Body Learning podcast. A special surprise bonus for me on the page is a video by Michael Frederick, an internationally renowned AT teacher. Announcement [...]
Off to camp! And have you gotten your free ebook yet?
You’ve signed up to be on my mailing list and gotten your free ebook on learning, recovery, and an exercise to make you feel lighter and easier right away, right? Just checking! It’s the box to your right. I’m off to my second year at Voice Camp with Kathryn Armour! It is such an amazing [...]
Spiffed up the site, and my musical autobiography.
Hey there! I’ve made a bunch of updates to the About + Contact, What I Do, and Why I Do It pages, which I think you all will enjoy. So please check them out if you haven’t already! I recently was inspired to write my musical autobiography, and thought it was great to see a [...]
Off to the Performing Arts Medicine Association symposium!
I’m off tomorrow morning to the PAMA symposium in Snowmass, Colorado! I’m really excited to meet authors and interviewees that I’ve admired from afar. I’m a tad nervous about traveling with my violin, however. I know, I know – the cellists are scoffing at me. I just am hoping there won’t be any issue with [...]
Exercise terminology for the exercise-allergic: Part 2
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on often-confused exercise terms. Why is this important? Besides impressing your physical therapist, I think having a clear definition of terms to describe things helps us to be clearer in our thinking about a concept. Think of how you feel when Uncle Albert refers to a flute [...]
Scheduling for July!
Happy July 4th weekend from our nation’s capital! Too bad our biggest tourist week is also our hottest. I’ve opened up scheduling slots for physical therapy sessions for July. I have a limited number of donation-only Alexander Technique slots as well, so if you are interested in one of those, sign up quickly! If you’re [...]
