RECOMMENDED READING

BOOKS

Introduction To Body Mapping

• What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body

• How to Learn the Alexander Technique: A Manual for Students

Discipline Specific Books

• Body Mapping for Flutists: What Every Flute Teacher Needs to Know About the Body

• The Structures and Movement of Breathing: A Primer for Choirs and Choruses

• What Every Pianist Needs to Know About the Body

• What Every Dancer Needs to Know About the Body

• What Every Singer Needs to Know About the Body

• What Every Trombonist Needs to Know About the Body

• What Every Violinist Needs to Know about the Body

• Oboemotions: What Every Oboe Player Needs to Know about the Body

• The Breathing Book for Oboe

• The Breathing Book for Trumpet

• The Breathing Book for Horn

• The Breathing Book for Tenor Trombone

• The Breathing Book for Euphonium

• The Breathing Book for Flute

• The Breathing Book for Singers

• The Breathing Book for Tuba

• Coordinate Movement for Pianists: Anatomy, Technique and Wellness Principles

• Piano Moves: A Spiral Curriculum for Body Mapping in the Piano Studio

• Body Mapping for Music Ministers

• Motion, Emotion, and Love: The Nature of Artistic Performance

• Teaching Body Mapping to Children

• Musician, Heal Thyself!

VIDEO & AUDIO

ARTICLES

TRAINING

• Upper String Playing Injuries and Ergonomic Breakthroughs

• Pianist’s Injuries: Movement Retraining is the Key to Recovery

• What Every Musician Needs to Know

• What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body

• Violin and Viola Shoulder Rests

• The Alexander Technique and Percussion

• How Body Mapping and the Alexander Technique Will Improve Your Playing

• Ease Performance Anxiety Naturally

• How To Resolve Dystonias: A Movement Perspective

• What To Do About Performance Anxiety

• What To Do About Performance Anxiety (Spanish Translation)

• "The Scapula: Achieving Stability"

• "Balance Begets Beauty"

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TEACHING TIPS

• Teaching Tips for Choral Directors

• To Schlep or not to Schlep: Alexander Technique Guidelines for Music Performance Teachers

• How To Use Body Mapping In Your Alexander Technique Teaching

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TEACHING CHILDREN

• Using Body Mapping Techniques in the Middle School Orchestra Class

• A Four-Year-Old Discovers Body Mapping

• Teaching the Rotation of the Forearm to Young Pianists

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PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT

• The Healing Power of Music

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BASIS OF BODY MAPPING

• Body Map Self Map, Key Note Address to the Andover Educators Biennial Conference

• Musicians as Movers: Body Mapping and the Alexander Technique for Musicians and Music Educators

• Origins and Theory of Mapping

• Scientific Basis of Body Mapping

• The Biological Basis of the Body Map