Welcome to Body Mapping Australia
Teaching the art of movement in music
For students
It’s an advantage to have an intimate understanding of how your body’s movement happens easiest. Imagine embodying that fully – in any context – when following expert instruction in a lesson, to achieve quality in practice, to thrive under exam conditions, to excel in performance. Fusing the worlds of movement and musical intention is the secret.
For teachers
To improve the effectiveness of your music teaching, improving your communication around technique is key. When it comes down to it, technique is essentially how we move to play to achieve the sound we want. So having the tools to assist your students to learn how to move well is a revolutionary step in pedagogic practice.
For performers
You can learn how to move with your body’s design for playing with ease and efficiency. When you are free of the limitations imposed by overwork at your instrument, you connect profoundly to your sound, the music and your audience.
Hi, I’m Jane Shellshear, musician, instrumental teacher Licensed Body Mapping Educator & Training Mentor
My story is grounded on a lifetime of making music and a passion for understanding movement. The distilling of these two elements of performance forms the essence of my teaching as a Training Mentor & LBME with the Association of Body Mapping Education. After all these years as a musician, I’ve come to know that it is the quality of my awareness & movement in all those thousands of hours of practise, rehearsal and performance, that ultimately dictated the success of my musical communication. I’d like to share this hard-won knowledge with you and all my fellow musicians.
Body Mapping for musicians.
Watch the video to see how online learning can work for you!
Body Mapping teaches the art of movement in music. Through observation, inquiry and exploration you learn about your own anatomy to bring that information to life in your music making. You can learn to recognize the source of inefficient or harmful movement you may be making and how to replace it with movement that is efficient, direct and powerful, based on the truth of your body’s design. You will play with less tension and improved facility, breathe easily, find buoyancy and conserve energy in playing.
As a movement practitioner and a musician myself, I’ve witnessed how essential it is that this information is presented as something able to be fused with your own musical intention if you are to connect deeply with yourself, the music and your audience while simultaneously caring for your movement health in performance.
Transform your playing today
Take the “What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body “eLearning course. To arrange sessions or classes for Sydney please use the contact form below. Bookings for Blue Mountains here
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