Alexander Technique, anxiety, concerts, emotions, musicians, performance, success, Uncategorized

My Onstage Disaster: What it Taught Me about Perfection and Happiness

This is a personal story by one of my CCM students, an oboist named ...

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Alexander Technique, anxiety, Art of Freedom, auditions, awareness, beliefs, emotions, fear, performance anxiety, reactions, thinking

Transforming My Negative Thoughts on Taking an Audition

I worked on the cadenza of the Tschaikovsky concerto today. The hardest thing about ...

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Alexander Technique, awareness, ease, non-doing, peace, performance, reactions, tension, Uncategorized

The Best Way to Deal with Musical Mistakes

Image courtesy of stockphoto at FreeDigitalPhotos.net The Alexander Technique is primarily a preventive technique. ...

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Alexander Technique, all-possibility, awareness, balance, depression, emotions, nature, reactions, spirituality, suffering, Uncategorized

Finding the Smile After the Storm

Everything changes. What matters is to have something changeless to refer everything back to. ...

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Alexander Technique, Art of Freedom, Uncategorized, wellness

A Well-Musician Chat about the Alexander Technique

Awhile back, I was interviewed by clarinetist Cara Gray for The Well-Musician, a website ...

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anxiety, awareness, balance, non-doing, open, posture, time-space, Uncategorized

A Simple Tool for Centering Yourself: My “Spatial Litany”

Enjoying the view at the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland ~ Photo by Dave Marcus ...

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