As a certified Andover Educator, Dr. Johnson regularly presents both the "What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body©," course and "What Every Organist Needs to Know About the Body"©.
Each is a six-hour course designed to offer clear, concise, specific information about the body, body maps, and movement for musicians, setting each participant on the path of self-evaluation and development.
BODY MAPPING is the conscious correction and refining of one's body map to produce efficient, graceful, and coordinated movement. Each has a body map already in place - one's self-representation in one's own brain (or the assumptions of conception) of what the body is like.
Virtually all movement is produced based on what each believes his/her body map to be. If the body map is accurate, the movement is accurate, and effortless, however if the body map is faulty, the movement will suffer. Body maps are developed over time, and, if erroneous, can be corrected. Some body map and movement corrections occur almost immediately while others take some to develop.
The information provided in the body mapping courses and private coaching emphasizes the importance of accurate body maps to musicians.
COURSE OUTLINE
The foundations of music training including somatic awareness and cultivating an accurate Body Map. Training of sensory discernment, responsiveness, and attention.
The core of the body and places of balance. The spine, the balance of the head on the spine, the balance of the head and thorax on the lumbar spine, the balance of the torso on the legs, balance at the knee, ankle, and arch of the foot, balance of the arm structure.
The four arm joints and how to use them. Organization from the tip of the little finger to the tip of the scapula, support for the arm in movement.
The movement of breathing including a dynamic lengthening and gathering of the core.
The legs and how to they move as you play. The three leg joints, balance and ease for pedaling
Application of basic sensory awareness and body mapping knowledge as we play.
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