Andover Educators
Andover Educators
was founded by Barbara Conable in
the fall of 1997 to address the lack of accurate information
about the body in music training. Her years of teaching and
lecturing have culminated in the development of her new course,
What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body, her
new book by the same title, and Andover Educators, a network
of teachers saving, securing, and enhancing musical careers
with accurate information about the body in movement.
Andover Educators presents the course What Every Musician
Needs to Know about the Body all around the country, trains
musicians to be Certified Teachers, keeps and distributes
a list of Certified Teachers of the course, maintains a web
site, provides referrals for students who need additional
instruction, and provides referrals, when possible, to music
teachers who teach on a secure somatic foundation.
The course, What Every Musician Needs to Know about the
Body, is designed to set each musician who takes it on
a path of self-evaluation and change, in order that he or
she may eventually arrive at a sensory-motor integrity sufficient
to becoming and remaining free of injury and pain throughout
a lifetime of playing with increasing pleasure and proficiency.
Andover Educators assumes that musicians who come to the course
with pain and injury have already been examined by physicians
and/or treated by physicians. This course does not in any
way substitute for proper medical care. Rather, it complements
medical care for those already injured or in pain, and it
educates for prevention of the problems that arise from mistaken
or inadequate body maps and resulting bio-mechanical misuse
of the body. The assimilated contents of the course provide
protection against injury insofar as free, efficient, aware
moving to play provides it.