The Mindfulness in Motion Blog
by Alan Bowers
You and your instrument
December 22, 2023
You and your musical instrument have a relationship. We all know about it. It summons you. You respond. It challenges you. You rise to meet it. You change it, set...
Breath is enlightenment
October 22, 2023
Breath is enlightenment, a light you can shine into any part of your body. When I walk, I tend to ruminate, think upon things past or future. When I do so,...
Minded body Embodied mind
October 19, 2023
How often can you prove today, that you, all we humans, are not ungovernable minds in disobedient bodies, but a harmonious, conversing whole, minded body and embodied mind. That is...
Tips for musicians: Overcome stiffness, open and expand.
October 16, 2023
We are born to open and expand. At the perimeters of our universe waves rush outwardly, echoing the first great stroke of creation, the big bang. Opening and outward expansion...
Alexander Technique for musicians, exercises to improve your play.
August 15, 2023
You are a musician, but maybe you have reached a plateau, you want to discover more ease and economy in your performance, you may experience pain or tension when playing....
Skilled hands
July 11, 2023
You have skilled hands, keys to the advancement of humanity and to your technical development as a musician. Your hands are marvelously endowed in ways you may unwittingly witness every...
Attention must be paid
July 4, 2023
Marvels Our bodies are marvels. They demand little of us yet floursh in our attention. Attention must be paid. Our bodes are vehicles of conveyance, intelligence gatherers, mills of foodstuffs,...
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