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Music Performance and Body Seminar

Towards a musician’s guide to understanding the performing body.

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  • No pain no gain
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  • Life changes…
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Towards a musician’s guide to understanding the performing body.

Towards a musician’s guide to understanding the performing body.

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  • About
  • Booking Payment Confirmation
  • Booking Payment Failed
  • Booking Received
  • Brainstorm!
    • All minds can make music: Understanding depression
    • Don’t be SAD! Exploring the effects of seasonal affective disorder on musicians
    • Dopamine and Rewarding Yourself
    • Enhanced Learning and Retention Through Combined Practice
    • Help! My hands have brain cramps?! Could I have focal dystonia?
    • Injured? Or is it all in your head?
    • Learn smart, teach smart: An exploration of motor skill learning in music performance training
    • Mind over matter: The power of imagination in music
    • Music Neuroscience, What Do You Think?
    • Music Research in the Psychedelic Renaissance
    • Performing from memory: How to make it less stressful?
    • The Hidden Harmony: Understanding Music Performance Anxiety
    • The Science on Learning:  6 Strategies for More Effective Practicing  
  • Contact Page
  • Contact Page
  • Could you repeat please?
    • SAVE OUR EARS!!! The Importance of Hearing Health for Musicians
  • Deal with it!
  • Do any of these sound like you?
  • Don’t worry, breathe happy! :)
    • What do you know about ‘support’?
  • Eat Well. Play well.
    • So, what should you eat?
  • Feeling sick to your stomach before a performance?
  • Focal dystonia in the hands: a symptom and solution guide
  • Guidelines for Teachers: Specific Injury Prevention Methods
  • Is an image worth a thousand notes?
  • Is my embouchure just tired or is it something more serious?
  • Know your instrument: The simplicity of extended techniques
  • Life changes…
    • Hormonal?
      • La voce!
    • I’m pregnant. How will this affect my ability to play the piano?
  • Music and Memory
  • My Booking
  • My Bookings Listing
  • My hand/wrist seems injured? It hurts when I turn my wrist around? Is it De Quervain? What should I do?
  • No pain no gain
    • Injuries of an alternate athlete
    • Musculoskeletal problems among orchestral musicians, exercise, and recovery
    • Musicianship and Pain Experiences: Are we more sensitive or resilient? 
    • Optimal Playing Postures for Violists
    • Principles of Piano Playing I Wish I Knew Before Music University (Backed by Science!)
    • Strengthening and stretching for string bassists
    • The Conducting Body: Anatomy Meets Philosophy
    • The Multimodal Methods of Injury Prevention: a Percussionist’s Perspective.
    • The Search for Ease: Violin Set-Up Guide
    • Tune up!
  • OMMMm. Meditation? Why?…How?
  • Our hands are not transformers!
  • Out of breath?
    • Breathing Myths Debunked
    • Can the way you breathe make you smarter?
    • Neck tension in singing? Learn about muscle tension dysphonia (MTD)
    • VPI – The Big Leak
  • Player Embed
  • Practicing and playing-related injuries in pianists: Is there a link?
  • Pumping Iron For Prevention!
  • Search Videos
  • Stressed?
    • Beta blockers: The performance pills
    • Go with the flow!
    • How am I suppose to perform while feeling stressed?
    • Learning self love for our playing
    • Overcoming Music Performance Anxiety – Practical Significance in Music Education
    • Performance Anxiety
      • Turning Negative Thoughts into Positive Performances
    • RETHINKING STRESS: MINDSETS MATTER
    • Sleep and Stress – the Unstoppable Wheel
    • Stress and Jazz Improvisation
    • Turning Negative Thoughts into Positive Performances
    • Understanding Stress and Coping Strategies Among Female Musicians
  • Take the Brain Train
  • The Art of Zen Music Playing
  • The brain game: practice strategies
  • The deaf musician: an oxymoron?
  • The many moods of a musician
  • Turning Negative Thoughts into Positive Performances
  • Understand and conquer those negative thoughts…
  • User Videos
  • Video Category
  • Video Tag
  • What can I do to fix this?
  • Whole sense: Synesthesia
  • Why and how do we breathe?
  • Why stress makes you hungry

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