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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.

sheet music 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.

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