This podcast is designed to be a resource for music educators who seek to develop a balanced awareness of the mental and physical aspects of teaching music, focusing on who we teach, as well as on what we teach. If you like a direct, smart, kind, and sometimes humorous approach to music, education,…
In this episode, I discuss the tension musicians face with practice/life balance and offer my own strategy for learning music quickly and effectively.
The MMP Podcast is back! In this episode I talk about my time in Taiwan and spend some time discussing assumptions.
A brief update regarding the podcast. Things have been very busy these days, but much of my time has been devoted to speaking, interviewing, and preparing for various aspects of MMP, so that makes me happy! Stay tuned this fall for more episodes and a regular podcast schedule.
Welcome to Mindful Music Pedagogy’s Musician Interview Series. This episode is the third in a three-part interview series with singer and educator Sarah Tannehill Anderson. Sarah is a Kansas City-based musician, and the founder of raiseyourvoicekc.com. In this final episode, we discuss auditions and rejection, the importance of knowing yourself as well as your students, the pros and cons of being an intuitive musician/person, how mindfulness is a part of Sarah’s studio in a physical way, Byron Katie and her work, being judged as a musician, and best of all, funny audition stories!If you haven’t listened to Parts 1 and 2 yet, please take a few minutes to get caught up. Here in Part 3 we pick up at the tail end of Sarah’s experiences as an opera singer. So when I pose the initial question “So when you were going through all of that, did you think about mindfulness?” the “that” we were referencing was her professional opera career.Happy listening!
Welcome to Mindful Music Pedagogy's Musician Interview Series. This episode is the second in a three-part interview series with singer and educator Sarah Tannehill Anderson. Sarah is a Kansas City-based musician, and the founder of raiseyourvoicekc.com. In this episode, we discuss the beginning of Sarah’s vocal education and career, unique challenges singers face, the importance of being vulnerable and cultivating vulnerability in our students, channeling emotions and dealing with difficult life circumstances with and through music, and the drama of being a professional musician and opera singer. One of Sarah’s and my favorite podcasts, Food Heals Podcast, gets a mention, as does the incomparable Christine Goerke. If you haven’t listened to Part One, you can do that now to get caught up.
Welcome to Mindful Music Pedagogy’s Musician Interview Series. This episode is the first in a three-part interview with singer and educator Sarah Tannehill Anderson. Sarah is a Kansas City-based musician, and the founder of raiseyourvoicekc.com. In this first episode, we talk about Sarah’s musical beginnings, her recent venture (Raise Your Voice KC), developing a healthy mindset while practicing, learning to cultivate that same mindset in our students, perfectionism, listening to our own inner voice as musicians, and the importance of surrounding ourselves with mindful people. We recorded this as one cohesive conversation which has been divided up into three parts, so stayed tuned for Parts 2 and 3!
How exactly can you implement breathing, progressive relaxation, meditation, and mindfulness into your teaching routine? It actually doesn't take that long! Get a jump start on these techniques now.
This episode's topic is margins: what are they, how can we create them, and how do we protect them?
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