Coaching
for Musicians.
Coachings
for Musicians.
Here you will set the tone.
- You're not the workshop kind of person?
- But you still want to understand and experience your body more?
- You want answers to your individual questions?
- Your instrument and your body are not yet in tune?
During the coaching sessions for musicians we will have plenty of time to take a look at your personal challenges and take on a common journey towards a perfect and healthy solution for your individual situation.
Throughout the sessions you, your body and your instrument will be my first priority.
Coaching Goals
- Enable you to make music in a healthy and sustainable way.
- Find individual solutions for your problems and challenges.
- Understand and apply breathing and pelvic floor activity while playing.
- Discuss questions and challenges concerning your embouchure.
- Find out what the proper posture is for you and eliminate any uncertainties.
Particular coaching topics:
Embouchure
- Your jaw joint is strained or sore after practising?
- You're looking for an exercise programme for your jaw and other muscles the embouchure is produced with?
- Your tongue feels heavy?
- Often times after practising you experience neck pain or headaches?
While you play your instrument, your jaw, your lips and your tongue are put under enormous stress. Since our jaw region is home to many nerves, even the littlest changes, be they positive or negative, can have a huge impact on the entire body. It only needs a few simple exercises in order to accomplish quite a lot in this region. They will help you relax your jaw muscles as well as your tongue and reduce subsequent consequences just as headaches, neck pain or excessive strain.
Breathing
- You sing, speak or play a wind instrument?
- Your breathing technique could be more efficient?
- Is your diaphragm effective?
- Are you aware of the pelvic floor activity during your breathing?
- How would you explain the SUPPORT?
Throughout this coaching, you will gain a better understanding of the anatomic and physiological aspects of your breathing. I am going to show you specific exercises for feeling and relaxing your diaphragm. For a full understanding of the processes that take place during breathing, I will explain to you – both theoretically and practically – how the pelvic floor is related to your breathing. My goal for this coaching is to work together with you in order to provide a good basis for your individual breathing technique that will help you experience the SUPPORT in a new way when you practise.
Pelvic Floor
- You're familiar with the function of the pelvic floor in regard to your breathing?
- Your pelvic floor muscles could be stronger?
- You would like to use your pelvic floor in a more effective way when you make music?
- You always feel tension when you practise and you cannot seem to relax?
Breathing, speaking, singing and playing a wind instrument doesn’t work without our pelvic floor.
Throughout this coaching, I will provide you with exercises that you can then apply to your instrument. Other exercises will help you to bring relaxation to your pelvic floor. Because, this much I can tell you: only a relaxed muscle is able to perform its function.
Pelvic Floor Plus for female Musicians
before | during | after pregnancy
- You want to pick up your music as soon as possible after your pregnancy?
- You want to start training your pelvic floor even before and during your pregnancy?
- Quite some time has passed since your pregnancy but laughing, sneezing, coughing – or the trampoline still worry you?
- You're looking for regular yet short and flexible exercise units in order to keep up with your level?
Pelvic Floor Plus will give you the necessary knowledge and exercises for you and your pelvic floor to get ready to pick up your instrument as soon as possible after pregnancy and post-partum. Together we will take a look at your individual situation, your personal needs and possible deficits.
I recommend starting ths coaching before and during pregnancy as well as right after delivery.
Posture
- Something seems to be off with your posture in general or when you're holding your instrument?
- Long practise sessions sitting down/standing up are difficult for you?
- You haven't found the perfect compensation for your intense music playing yet?
- You're looking for an individual practise programme?
Here you will find theoretical and practical answers to all your questions.
I will provide you with some background knowledge and appropriate exercises that will help us to get you on a journey to the posture that’s perfect for you and your situation – now and especially in the long run.
Your personal objective
is the first priority of my coachings for musicians.
As a freelance oboe player and physiotherapist I am well acquainted with the miscellaneous challenges a musician’s everyday life holds in store.
That’s why with these coachings I want to support you to be able to make music in a healthy and sustainable way (again).
