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Sound Body Training For Artists and Musicians

Training the Instruments Behind Your Passion – Your Brain and Body

What is The Sound Body Program

Introducing the Sound Body Program—a sensory AND movment-based program designed specifically for artists and musicians. Artists and musician (singers included of course), use their brain and movement systems together in ways that are not only very unique, but are also highly interconnected. Nothing engages the brain and body the way music can, so of course there should be a different way for musicians to train!

This program helps you to directly tackle head on some of the common problems that musicians and artists face - whehter its injuries, soreness from playing, overly taxed muscles of the voice, or other not so easy to conditions that sometimes creep up due to imbalances such as such as performance anxieties, increased bodily and mental fatigue, or other nervous system like problems.

In this program you will find the tools to create a better balance and harmonize the brain and body in some colorful ways, ensuring you maximize recovery and optimze you movement repitiour so you can continue to enjoy singing, playing, or performing at your best -no matter what preexisting injuries, conditions, or challenges you may face along the way. We work with artists of all kinds, providing them with the latest and most up-to-date information on how to do just this.

What Happens To Musicians When The Body Goes Out of Tune:

Chronic stress, injuries, reoccuring illnesses, increased performance demands, and inadequate recovery can negatively impact how musicians and artists process their sensory information, leading to major challanges in practice and performance. When this happens, the effects can easily start to show up as nervous system problems that stem from both your brain and body —whether issues are visual, physical, or auditory—they create unwanted "noise" and disrupts a musician’s ability to quickly perceive and respond while playing.

Certain instruments, playing styles, or singing techniques can also cause certain muscular tension to slowly creep in, leading to fatigue and discomfort in the hands, throat, back, breath as well as other areas of the body. These issues can hinder practice and performance and start to make music less enjoyable all together.

Many of these issues when they occur cause musicians to make mistakes, miss cues, lose track of their music, and over time, even cause them to loose the passion that brough them to their instrument in the first place. This shift into playing and performing showing up as now more a "struggle," can begin to even contributing to performance anxiety and chornic fatigue. While every musician knows challenges definitely can inspire emotion in art and good music all together, they can also make it harder to access those creative flow and healing states music also provides us. When this happens we have a problem.

Throughout the program you'll recieve strategies to help prevent and address these common issues, equipping you with tools to stay ahead and recover quickly. Our focus is on training the brain and body together as a whole—the instruments through which your artistic passion flows—not on improving your artistic or musical skills. While you may notice positive changes in your art in this program (and we hope you do), our goal is to enhance performance, show you how to prevent injury, and foster a stronger connection to your brain and body. The Sound Body Program will support you in doing what you love—creating and playing music.

Sound Body Program

Below are some key features we have highlighted in this program that we’re excited to share! Many of these techniques are easy to learn and can be introduced in just a session or two, allowing you to take them home and incorporate them straight into your practice and performance.

1. Creating Waves and Releasing Bodily Stress & Tension: Neurogenic Tremoring and Fascial Unwinding

The field of movement and wave behaviors takes a fresh approach to understanding how we move, using principles from wave dynamics to explore how our bodies function. Just like waves, our movements are influenced by energy, resonance, and rhythm. We will show you simple techniques to tap into your body's natural rhythms, helping to release stress, tension, and movement restrictions in the body.

We use two technique as entry points into this movement pratice: Fascial Unwinding and Neurogenic Tremoring. Both are designed to begin to help you unlock these areas and support your body’s natural healing. Throughout the process we will help you identify key areas to apply these techniques that help support your style of play and performance.

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2. Brain and Nervous System Activation: Neuroplasticity through Somatic and Sensorimotor Techniques

Just like there are many instruments in music, there are also many movement and sensory techniques you can use to build stronger awareness of the brain-body connection and developer deeper relationships with movement. The best part? The sensations and movements you choose can work together to boost brain health and open up deeper levels of self-expression in playing and performance. Where attention goes the energy flows and we highlight this at every step of the way here.

We will introduce you to some of the key foundational neuroplasticity practices that you will use to create and feel movement differently in your body. We will also draw the latest advances in fascial and movement science, focusing on how to combine unique sensory-rich techniques together in ways that are specific to your body's needs and will help you feel and move with greater ease and offer improved performance efficiency.

3. Rest and Restore Protocol: Deep Recovery Though Sound & LIstening

The Rest and Restore Protocol (RRP) is an advanced, biofeedback-based program designed to help individuals manage stress and recover more effectively—mentally and physically. Whether it’s performance anxiety, physical discomfort developed from long hours of playing, or fatigue that shows up in your playing and performances, this program takes a back door way into helping the body heal itself through the listening of music.

This comprehensive five-hour protocol is delivered auditorily to the artist and is based on decades of research into the body’s physiological rhythms, including heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, and gut health, combined with cutting-edge sound technology. RRP promotes deep relaxation, recovery, and balance by specifically targeting the healing aspects of the autonomic nervous system that are connected to the ear. This can help artists to achieve more optimal mental clarity, emotional balance, and physical recovery all at once.

The program not only helps with recovery from physical stress of performance but also supports long-term performance and overall well-being, keeping artists healthier during practice and performance in the long run. Additionally, becasuse the ear and voice/throat share overlapping neurological components in the body, this program also can specifically be used to help with vocal and breathing related problems making it an extremely powerful tool for singers or any wind instrumentalists. There are several different music choices which can be tailored to the artist’s preferences of music interest.

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4. ShockWave: Healing Injuries & Helping Overused Muscles With Vibration Medicine

Shockwave Therapy is a cutting-edge, non-invasive treatment that uses high-energy sound waves to help you heal injured and chronically stressed tissues. It's an excellent option for musicians who may develop musculoskeletal issues from spending long hours practicing or performing. Best of all, the effects are often felt instantous and only require a few sessions for larger resuts to be seen

By focusing on areas of chornically held tissue tension or injury, Shockwave Therapy boosts circulation, reduces pain, and speeds up the healing process, allowing artists to recover quicker, feel better, and get back to practicing and performing. We are able to treat all types of areas that musicians must involve with their playing that include but are not limited to: hands, arms, elbows, shoulders, neck, back, legs, and feet. Shockwave can also help relieve chronic pain, and improve flexibility and even helps stimulates collagen production, which strengthens tissues and helps prevent future injuries—making it an invaluable tool for helping musicians and artists stay healthy!

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5. Diaphgrams: Connecting the Dots Between Your Diaphgrams

The body contains many diaphragms, five of which we will specifically focus on: the plantar fascia, thoracic diaphragm, pelvic floor, thoracic outlet, and tongue. These diaphragms act as partitioning structures between sections of the body, creating a rich intercommunication system of forces and pressures that helps keep your body healthy and functioning well. The most recognized of these five is the diaphragm in the torso. It is a voluntary musculotendinous structure that plays a key role in respiration.

When these diaphragms work together as an interconnected system—much like links in a chain—disruptions in one diaphragm can lead to dysfunction throughout the entire system. In this program, you will go deeper into these foundational five diaphragms and learn essential hands on techniques and thearputic strategies that help keem them working together in harmony. .

Moving Soundly

We’re passionate about helping artists and musicians stay healthy and feel great so they can keep playing and doing what they love. We’re excited to share this program that we created specifically for artists, singers, and musicians with you and can’t wait to be part of your creative journey going deeper with sound and movement. Please reach out if you'd like to learn more or are interested in seeing how this program can help you.