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

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

• Teaching Body Mapping to Children

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

• Body Mapping for Music Ministers

VIDEO & AUDIO

DVD: Move Well, Avoid Injury

The Move Well, Avoid Injury video contains 50 information-rich sections (2+ hours) of what everyone needs to know about the body. With this information, you will learn how to avoid common yet unnecessary injuries and also how to move with freedom and ease.             

Constructive Rest: The Audio Guide Series

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

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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