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Musicians all
over America are suffering from pain and limitation in their
playing, many to the point of losing their careers. Most of
these musicians hurt because they misuse their bodies, not because
of disease or structural anomalies. Music medicine is relevant
to a minority of suffering musicians; most require information
and retraining.
Music teachers have long had to teach without an effective
way of conveying information about the instrument that every
musician plays -- the body. Until now, music teachers conveyed
information about movement intuitively, or by use of imagery,
sometimes with misuse built in. Now there is a better resource.
The Resource
The information provided in the course
and text What Every Musician
Needs to Know about the Body is precisely the information
needed by musicians to prevent pain and injury and to promote
excellence in practicing and performing. What Every Musician
Needs to Know about the Body is a six hour course designed
to give specific, clear information about the body to musicians,
with an emphasis on integrating that information immediately
into the musician's body map. The breakthrough of Body Mapping
is the realization that we move based on how we think we are
put together rather than how we are actually constructed.
With the specialized information in the Andover
Educators course musicians not only learn the truth about
how their bodies work in movement, but also how to develop
an embodied attention.
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