Find Your Flow Intensive

Are you an adult pianist aiming to optimize your performance?
Lead with listening and let go of strain.

5 Week Independent Study or Group Zoom/Masterclass
Advanced Training

A mainstream approach to playing I often encounter is to focus and to strive for perfection by ignoring "distracting" sensations or internal thoughts.

I propose the opposite.

Performing and practicing are not about focusing on controlling behavior and suppressing anxiety. It's about MINDFULNESS, the power to be fully connected all around us. It is necessary to use both the lens of internal drive AND the lens to zoom outwards to integrate all that is happening in the present moment. For Conscious Listening participants, this is an extension of our work on how to lead with listening.

How do you measure whether your performance was successful? That MINDSET will determine how you practice, how you connect with the composer's score and with your audience, and how you connect to the music in the ever evolving present moment.

In this course, you will

Define your success by how well you listen to multiple dimensions.
Strategize an optimal growth mindset.
Link performance flow with practice habits.
Use a creative tool chest to trouble shoot flow issues.

Play with the ever changing present moment!

What This Course Will Do For You

Get all the tools you need
to tackle the physical, mental, and emotional challenges of performing and practicing.

Practice how to use these tools with fluency
in performance situations.
Practice listening to all sensations in order to notice the most essential one at that moment.
Practice letting go in order to respond.
Practice breathing in the energy of the room in order to find your internal space.

Real-Time Processing
We will be learning to adapt to real time sensations by
integrating and going deeper and wider in our process,
with a recording as both an observation tool and an end product.

Big Picture Principles
Classes will cover

1)analysis for performance,

2)mind-body connection,

3)maximizing expression,

4)fine-tuning the interpretation and an optional verbal introduction,

5)deciding on the production details, and

6)reviewing the videos/ the process together.

Community
Amplify your motivation with customized guidance and camaraderie with other adult pianists.

Schedule

Asynchronous video on your own time

Week 1)Read Email and Watch Video
Week 1)Choose repertoire c. 7 minutes and record your own performance Video Evaluation (use YouTube, Google Drive, or DropBox)

Week 1)Score study analysis

Week 2) Physical, Mental, and Emotional Flow STRATEGY.
Week 3) Maximizing expression with harder targeted EXERCISES

Week 4) Filling up your performance TOOL CHEST

Live Zoom Private Lesson

Week 5)Develop your deep listening

Cost of Independent Study: $257

1)Fill out the form - click blue button below.

2)If you are new, email a one-minute video or link of your playing to thenutmegstudio@gmail.com.
3)Short Zoom interview required for new applicants.

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"Nutmeg Press" as First Name. Email is thenutmegstudio@gmail.com. Please confirm amount - non refundable.
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