Living Musically Workshops, Coaching, and Small Group Processing
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Living Musically - Current Offerings
GUITAR LESSONS
Holistic , one on one lessons offered through Zoom or in person. Adult prices listed. Depending on the student's needs, lessons are multidisciplinary - incorporating yoga techniques, meditative visualization, dance, creative writing, voice, and character development to our guitar practice and study. These techniques are supplementary to your practice, supporting your authentic expression, and helping you relate to your guitar with as much honesty and liveliness as possible that day.
Drop in's
65/session
Drop In's are a good choice if you are just curious and starting to check out the instrument.
You may schedule them one at a time as you see fit.
The Song Package
250/package
4 lessons, once per week. These have a short term goal in mind. They are focused on a specific concept of your choice, such as learning the ins and outs of a chosen song. An initial half hour consultation is included.
The Semester
700/package
12 lessons, once per week - A planned out, personalized semester, covering a range of concepts based upon your interests and experience. This may include physicality, scales, chords, rhythm, songs, improvisation, composition, and more. An initial half hour consultation is included.
WORKSHOPS
Living Musically's 3 semester curriculum of ecopsycholgically- guided outdoor music workshops in development!
Music as KinMaking - for the absololute beginner, or the very experienced
Music as Kinmaking focuses on the practice of musical improvisation and expression beyond our typical instruments. By using ecopsychological journaling, theater games, call and response explorations, singing, rhythm, and dance, we navigate through our human narratives, musically express with each other and the other- than -human life we share space with, and develop a deeper understanding of what it means to be musical, belong, be home, be processual, and be in kinship on Earth.
Performance as Mythical Balance
Please come back soon for more details. Or drop me a line to chat and find out more! Your input is so valuable, and your interest will help guide the direction of this workshop.
The Songwriter's Need for Biodiversity
Please come back soon for more details. Or drop me a line to chat and find out more! Your input is so valuable, and your interest will help guide the direction of this workshop.
What is Living Musically?
A way to approach life in a musical manner. Learning music, and approaching our own musicality with the understanding that what we do in music has effects and implications that span and last far beyond the song we're playing. Music is powerful, natural, ecological, and can be available to all.
Music is all about relationship. Relationship between pitches (notes), between beats ( rhythm), between the musician and the instrument ( including the vocalist's lungs and the air), between all of this and the listener, whose brain identifies patterns that evoke emotions and move bodies, and between the vibrations and matter that come together to make sound.
A system of symbiotic ( living -with) and sympoietic (making-with) relationships, music is ecological, a microbiome within nested ecosystems. When we play music together or solo, we play relationships - that primal stuff that makes life possible.
Yet, for any relationship to flourish, we can't just play the notes on the page. We need to practice sensitivity in the form of listening, responding ( instead of reacting), using our physical senses to gather information, as well as using our sense of intuition. It is with this practice that we can really improvise and jam together - through a song, and through life!
Living Musically is an invitation for you to consciously practice making music, and practice being in relationship with your psychological self ( deep, diverse elements that make music so meaningful to us), your wider, communal selves ( the ecological beings and narratives that you coshape with), and your musical - relational self (responsive, response-able, sensitive, creative, open, with defined boundaries).
With this practice, we have the opportunity to joyously and cathartically play our favorite songs, as well as improvise and create new songs/stories. - To tune into patterns and connections all around us, relating with humans and other ecological beings in lively and sincere ways. - And to find a deeper sense of belonging within this beautiful, sensitive, intrawoven, musical planet.
WATER AND MUSIC
Coming Soon
Donations and Perks
Thank You!
Your generosity is greatly appreciated! By donating, you are allowing financial aid for students, as well as furthering the development of ecopsychological and musical workshops and studies. Thank you for being a part of this effort to elevate our relationality, as we cultivate and explore our innate and unique musicality, curiosity, and ecological existence. Donations may be sent to @livingmusically on Venmo.
Up to 25 dollars
A lesson in writing lyrics to your own blues, and singing them too! On zoom or in person.
26 to 50 dollars
A lesson in writing and singing your blues, plus an ecopsychological questionnairre to help you understand ecopsychology, as well as understand and evolve your current relationship with music and/or performing. On zoom or in person.
51 dollars and up
All of the above, plus a song written and performed for you and about you and the uniqueness you bring to this world. Can be shared publicly or kept just for you to remember the beautiful reflections and expressions that you are.
Contact
I look forward to connecting and collaborating with you!
MUSINGS
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