Are you a professional musician, performer, actor or dancer? Then this package deal is for you.
Why choose this?
- You have an important concert or audition, and you want to prepare it well, but you feel your nerves are already starting to act up. You really want to enjoy the preparation, but it feels like such hard work
- You often don’t feel completely free on stage, and this has an impact on your performance. Things you know you can do well feel less free and don’t go as well as you want. That’s frustrating for you because you know you are capable of more. In your head, it sounds or looks better
- You have an injury, or you are in pain, and you need to get rid of it because you cannot work this way. Regular physio doesn’t help or only gives you short-term relief. You feel you must go deeper, find the cause of the pain so that you can understand where it’s coming from
- You lead an irregular life where sometimes it’s crazy busy and sometimes there is nothing to do, and it feels like a challenge to keep up, both physically and mentally. You often return home a wreck and need a lot of time to recover
- Your breath often isn’t free, during difficult passages you notice that you fixate it. So, your sound is not as free as it could be. And you don’t enjoy playing or performing so much. You also notice that this way of playing is much more tiring
Doris has a very personal and warm style of teaching. She is direct and honest, but in an encouraging and loving way, so you never get the feeling you are doing something wrong. That was very supportive and refreshing for me, as I don’t often encounter that as a musician. She also shares openly about her own experience, which made me feel very much at ease.
Cèlia, musician
You would like
- To find a way to feel freeer during performing – a way that you can learn and integrate into both practicing and rehearsing
- To recognize your pain in time, learn what the real cause is and how you can get rid of it. So that eventually, you are not depending on anyone to tell you how to play and practice. So that you can solve all issues on your own
- To not get tired muscles so soon, to not feel your energy drain, to not get stiff if you have to play for long stretches of time. To have a more stable energy throughout those long rehearsal days
- In those hectic moments of life, always to be able to create calmness and space in your head, so that you can focus on what gives you inspiration and makes you happy
- To be more conscious throughout your day and especially during playing. To be more aware of your breath and to know how to free it up, also during performances, which makes you enjoy your performance and the interaction with your audience much more
- To develop and plunge into the depths of your artistry with your body as your instrument
You will get:
- 10 lessons of 60 minutes. Part of each lesson we will work on the foundation of the Alexander technique, and the other part of the lesson we work on your instrument/performance. Lessons are extra long so that we will have more time to go in-depth
- 5 online lessons of 30 minutes, in which we do exercises especially designed to help you in your performance. For example an exercise you can do as a warming up. Or a lying down exercise you can do before a performance, or when you have to memorize music or text. We adjust these completely to your wishes
- Tailormade audio. The exercises from the online lessons will be recorded, so that you can use these as audio guides when you practice at home.
Cost: 870 euro
What are we going to do?
- You will of course learn the foundations of the Alexander technique. You will learn how to move better and more easily. For instance, when you sit at the computer or when you bend down to pick up your instrument
- You also learn how to use the technique in your performance. You learn how to react differently, from a calmer state, in your daily practice as well as in stressful situations like performances and auditions
- You will learn techniques to calm your breathing, and also how to integrate these into your playing
- You will learn exercises to recover after a long hard day or if you have to perform for many hours. And you learn what you can do during such days to make sure you don’t return home a wreck
- You learn to let your performance arise from your own stillness, freedom, and inspiration, rather than from a feeling of hard work and strained effort at doing your best
Ticket strip
After this trajectory, when you have mastered the foundations, you can switch to a ‘ticket strip’. Lessons will then be 50 minutes and we don’t work with your instrument every week. You will be able to do a lot on your own by now.
At this stage, it is most important to understand the Alexander technique better and to integrate it in your daily life. Of course, we will still work with your instrument/performance part of the time.
Ticket strip of 5 lessons (50 minutes per lesson): 325 euro
Ticket strip of 10 lessons (50 minutes per lesson): 640 euro
Questions?
Are you a student or under 21 years? Do you have a social allowance of a small wallet in another way? Under certain conditions I may give a discount.
Have you already had many lessons elsewhere or is your situation unique in another way and do you want to speak with me first? In all these cases please feel free to contact me.