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New course for 2024: What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body鈩⑩��The Practical Application of Body Mapping to Making Music!
Since 1995, we have been creating and delivering workshops for personal and professional development, resilience and self-care, and to foster ease and efficiency in your everyday life. Our program includes significant aspects of the Alexander Technique, Body Mapping, movement practices, mindfulness exercises听and psychological tools鈥攁ll in service of cultivating inclusive well-being and peak performance. Whether you are a musician, office worker, dancer, athlete, or seeker, join us and support your personal growth and development by spending a week in gorgeous Boulder, Colorado!
For 2024, the AT+ team will include Amy Likar (DMA in flute and Director of Training for the Association for Body Mapping Education), James Brody (Director of the Musicians鈥� Wellness Program at the 彩民宝典 College of Music) and听Matthew Tomatz (embedded psychotherapist to the College of Music).听
Likar and Brody听will call on their decades of experience with musicians and the general community to provide effective strategies for efficient movement and thinking. Using an integrative approach, Tomatz will present daily sessions to听deepen the program through mindfulness, yoga, breath practices and performance psychology.
As always, we encourage Master of Music Education students to join us for guidance on how to bring these powerful tools into your classrooms.听Anyone with appropriate standing is eligible to receive one graduate-level credit through 彩民宝典 Continuing Education for an additional fee (below).
Likar will present the full Body Mapping course鈥�What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body鈩�鈥攐n Monday, July 8 and Tuesday, July 9 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. We are thrilled to offer this remarkable content in person.听AT+听program participants will receive a reduced rate of $125 for this additional offering.听Any and all are welcome to attend What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body鈩�听for a fee of $175.听For more information, contact James Brody, brody@colorado.edu, 303-908-4279.
What is the participant experience like?
According to fiddle player and singer Laima Haley:
鈥淚 love that the summer AT+ program forms a mini community of artists interested in creating music healthily and sustainably together. Musicians of all skill levels, instruments and styles are warmly welcomed.鈥�