Description
Body Mapping for Flutists by Lea Person
Body Mapping for Flutists by Lea Person
What every flute teacher needs to know about the body
About
Based on the book What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body by Barbara Conable
Lea Pearson, DMA—Certified Andover Educator
- Struggling to get enough air?
- Unhappy with your technical skills?
- Dealing with a sore back, neck pain, or hand issues?
Body Mapping for Flutists focuses on injury prevention and improved performance by increasing awareness of body mechanics. Certified Andover Educator and flautist Lea Pearson provide clear, practical solutions to common body alignment challenges. The illustrations included also help you develop your own body map.
With Body Mapping for Flutists, you’ll learn to:
- Maintain proper balance while sitting or standing
- Position and move your arms correctly
- Breathe freely and with support
- Understand the body’s anatomy and function
- Train your sense of body movement (kinesthesia)
- Appreciate the importance of efficient movement for musicians
- Apply practical exercises for better technique
Book description
‘As a flautist who has travelled the road from discomfort, injury, and frustration to comfortable, free, and fluid playing, I have often wished there were a resource exploring flute technique from the perspective of Body Mapping. While I had studied with many wonderful flute teachers, none of them were able to help me with the pain that started in my hand at age eighteen.
Eventually, I began studying the Alexander Technique and Body Mapping. Although the pain lessened and my body use improved, my Alexander Technique teachers were not flautists and could not help me directly with flute technique. When I met Lisa Ruoho, I began to realize the importance of integrating flute teaching with principles of Body Mapping-Flautists who suffer physical difficulties such as overwork of the head, neck, and arms; lack of support from the whole body; back pain; and limitations in breathing can benefit from this resource, which offers tools to help recognise and solve these problems.’
Exploring Movement
Every sound that musicians make is created by movement: tone, rhythm, technique, and musicality are all created by subtle and complex movements that take years to refine. Therefore, movement education is critical so that musicians have as complete an understanding of the way they create sound as of the way they hear and interpret sound.
This handbook addresses the principles of movement, senses, and attention that are most relevant to flautists. One important role of teachers in training movement is to help students explore the quality of their movements.
Lea Person
Flautist, Dr Lea Person holds a DMA in flute performance from Ohio State University. In 1998, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where she studied flute performance from an Alexander Technique perspective with Liisa Ruoho. She has studied extensively with Barbara Conable and is a certified Andover Educator.
As one of the first Licensed Body Mapping Educators in the world, Dr. Pearson authored the acclaimed book Body Mapping for Flutists: What Every Flute Teacher Needs to Know About the Body. She has helped thousands of musicians regain their ability to play with joy and ease through her sold-out workshops and master classes.
Her influence among flute teachers is legendary.
Dr Pearson has guided international performers from Brazil to China and has taught at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the US Air Force Band, and over 100 colleges, conservatories, military bases, conferences, camps, and festivals worldwide.
As a performer, college teacher, and Kennedy Center Teaching Artist, Dr. Pearson uses her expertise to address a hidden issue in the music industry: the pain and anxiety caused by traditional teaching methods.
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