Resilience & Relaxation: Piano Kinesthetics Online Tutorial

Relieve tension, improve posture, and connect mind and body for holistic piano playing

What you'll learn

• Gentle and intriguing: Learn and integrate movements step by step with an approach of moving your whole body at the piano.
• Relaxation: Simple approach for relieving the tension, especially targeted at the shoulder and low back areas.
• Resilience: Improve your posture and increase your awareness on how you move at the piano and the ability to find better quality in your movement.
• Body of knowledge: Gain a fundamental knowledge on human body's skeletal structure and movement patterns.
• Mind and body connection: Learn to use senses to connect your attention and intention as you move.
• Kinesthetic learning: Learn a sensorial language that you can use for yourself or for teaching

Requirements

No experience needed. All you need is a quiet space and a mat, and bring a curious mind for learning!

Description

Inspired by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais' method, this online resource is designed for experienced pianists to relieve tension through learning movement and to enhance posture towards relaxation and resilience. This Tutorial offers the patterns of movement that are strongly associated with the movements involved in piano playing. It is not teaching you how to play piano, but the movements you learn will help you to apply at the piano.

The coordination required for a piano player is extremely complicated. To become a satisfying professional pianist, it requires one to learn playing the piano from an early age when a child is still undergoing a developing stage for almost everything: senses, movement, cognition, etc. The movement patterns used at the piano would have been built and grown as part of this child's comprehension as how to move in general and become as "habits." In the efforts of trying and experimenting through the process of practicing, tension would occur regardless of whether the training is appropriate or not. Therefore, sometimes tension could take much longer time to let go of. It may be deeply rooted in our brain and nervous system, particularly if one is also dealing with high level of stress daily.

This Tutorial has total of 34 short video lessons and 4 complete audio movement lessons that can give you a fundamental understanding of feeling, sensing, and thinking about using movements to relieve your tension and stress, learning to move in a way that can enhance mind and body connections and furthermore, improving the overall control at the piano.

Disclaimer:

All the contents in the Piano Kinesthetics Online Tutorial are for educational purposes only. Anything shared on this website is not a substitute for professional help or medical treatment nor is intended to diagnose or treat any pathology or disease of any kind. All media files found on this website and the creator of any and all of these files, and anyone featured on these files, cannot be held responsible for any injuries or discomfort that occur. Before doing any of the movement lessons or movements described or portrayed, be sure to consult your medical doctor.

Who this course is for:

Experienced pianists curious about a kinesthetic approach on tension relief and overall control improvement.