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"Where the Light Enters You" by ANANDA - Sacred Sound Immersion
Music for meditation and yoga. Full albums in my Ananda Healing Sounds playlist
(And how to reclaim its mind-bending creative potential)What if you had access to a limitless source of creative inspiration, flow, and pleasure? ✨It would be so much fun, right?!Making your art would suddenly feel so much freer, enjoyable, and productive. 🎨Sound too good to be true?What if […]
Insights for a soul-led creative livelihoodJust had an amazing meditation session this morning. 🧘♀️Got a ton of insights into how to craft a fulfilling artistic livelihood.I meditate every day and often use it to explore important questions in my life. 🤔During today’s session, I […]
(And how to ensure your masterpieces matter)What does artistic mastery mean? 🤔Ask 10 people and you’ll get different 10 answers.💪 For some, it means creating in accord with tradition.💪 For others, it means achieving new heights of virtuosity.💪 For yet others, it means skillfully […]
Or is suffering necessary to artistic mastery?Who had it right? The Picasso’s “Old Guitarist” or Bob Ross’s “happy little clouds?”>> Can a happy artist be a great artist? 😁>> Or is suffering necessary to artistic mastery? 😔The stories of great artists, musicians, […]
Creating a masterpiece is hard. This is a feature, not a bug!We all know that creating an artistic masterpiece takes years of training, blood, sweat, and tears.So many challenges come up along the way:Creative blocksDifficult emotions like frustration and disappointmentLimiting mindsets like […]
I’ll be going to the Amazon headwaters in Ecuador for the next 16 days. I’m traveling with the Pachamama Alliance (pachamama.org), which is a
In order to achieve effortless mastery, we need more “effortlessness” skills. Learning how to operate in the “receiving mode” is one of the most
I have a student in grad school, getting a degree in music therapy. He was feeling overwhelmed with work and asked me about ways
How do you play something really fast, but without getting tense? After all, tension and effort actually interfere with your ability to play fast
It’s a cold, rainy day in Philadelphia and I didn’t really feel like talking, so I decided to play violin for you, instead! Day
“Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.” “• Marilyn Monroe There
When you’re doing something difficult like playing music and you’re getting tighter than you’d like to, what’s happening to your “sense of space” in
Does your back get tired or even painful when you stand or sit for long periods? Sometimes it can feel impossible to find a
What is the full flowering of “playing from the heart”? What does it feel like, and how do we get there? At its deeper
The Spirit of the Gift rests on a deeper truth than the belief that we are all separate beings in a world of other.
The Spirit of the Gift helps us understand: – How to feel more at home in the world – How to make a living
When you practice music (or dance, or other creative arts), does it feel more like you’re “toiling” at music, rather than actually “playing” music?
You try to have good posture, but then why do your shoulders or back still hurt? You try to fix your slump by sitting
Watch a live Soulforce Arts lesson with Joseph Arnold, violinist, Alexander Technique teacher and founder of the Soulforce Arts Academy, and Alyssa Lahoda, violinist.
What do you do when your shoulder pain just *keeps* coming back? How do you stop your back from hurting when you play? Have
One of the keys to understanding how to release excess tension in performance and practice is the difference between the “Doing Mode” vs. the
You want to play more deeply from the heart. You want to teach this to your students. However, this longing can be frustrated by
“Playing from the heart” is what happens when you listen to your “Inner Audience Member” as you play. Your Inner Audience Member is the
“Code Red for Humanity”On August 9th, 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report which raised grave and urgent concern about human-induced
Playing from the heart is universally desired as performers and as audience members. It’s what brings our performances *alive*, as opposed to being robotic
I’ll be going to the Amazon headwaters in Ecuador for the next 16 days. I’m traveling with the Pachamama Alliance (pachamama.org), which is a climate change advocacy organization that also
In order to achieve effortless mastery, we need more “effortlessness” skills. Learning how to operate in the “receiving mode” is one of the most powerful effortlessness skill that I know.
I have a student in grad school, getting a degree in music therapy. He was feeling overwhelmed with work and asked me about ways to improve his time management. Instead,
How do you play something really fast, but without getting tense? After all, tension and effort actually interfere with your ability to play fast – just think of how fluidly
It’s a cold, rainy day in Philadelphia and I didn’t really feel like talking, so I decided to play violin for you, instead! Day 24 of 100 Days of Soulforce:
“Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.” “• Marilyn Monroe There is a direct analogy between the
When you’re doing something difficult like playing music and you’re getting tighter than you’d like to, what’s happening to your “sense of space” in that moment? Are you getting tunnel
Does your back get tired or even painful when you stand or sit for long periods? Sometimes it can feel impossible to find a comfortable way of sitting and standing,
What is the full flowering of “playing from the heart”? What does it feel like, and how do we get there? At its deeper reaches, playing from the heart means
The Spirit of the Gift rests on a deeper truth than the belief that we are all separate beings in a world of other. When we live and make art
The Spirit of the Gift helps us understand: – How to feel more at home in the world – How to make a living while doing something meaningful – How
When you practice music (or dance, or other creative arts), does it feel more like you’re “toiling” at music, rather than actually “playing” music? Why does this happen, despite our
You try to have good posture, but then why do your shoulders or back still hurt? You try to fix your slump by sitting up straight, but then you find
Watch a live Soulforce Arts lesson with Joseph Arnold, violinist, Alexander Technique teacher and founder of the Soulforce Arts Academy, and Alyssa Lahoda, violinist. Day 16 of 100 Days of
What do you do when your shoulder pain just *keeps* coming back? How do you stop your back from hurting when you play? Have you tried *everything* to release the
One of the keys to understanding how to release excess tension in performance and practice is the difference between the “Doing Mode” vs. the “Receiving Mode.” In the “Doing Mode,”
You want to play more deeply from the heart. You want to teach this to your students. However, this longing can be frustrated by common misconceptions about what it means
“Playing from the heart” is what happens when you listen to your “Inner Audience Member” as you play. Your Inner Audience Member is the part of you that generates feelings
“Code Red for Humanity”On August 9th, 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report which raised grave and urgent concern about human-induced climate change. The report states that
Playing from the heart is universally desired as performers and as audience members. It’s what brings our performances *alive*, as opposed to being robotic or overly effortful. But how to
