Category: Playing Healthy
By Selma Gokcen February 5, 2015
Subjects Playing Healthy
By Selma Gokcen May 6, 2014
Subjects Playing Healthy
By Selma Gokcen March 10, 2014
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags accuracy, activity, Alexander Technique, cello, cellobello, conditioning, conservatory, Coordination, delivery, F.M. Alexander, Gokcen, habit, hours of practicing, necessity, Practice Room, Primary Control, relentless repetitive motions, repetition, results, Selma, the Use of the Self, young instrumentalists
By Selma Gokcen January 20, 2014
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags Alexander Technique, attention, available energy, creative, daily practice, deeper understand, effort, Einstein, flexible, free state of alertness, full attention, Gokcen, impressions, listening intently, living in question, Mind, motivation, partial attention, Patrick Macdonald, paying attention, refined skills, refining skills, releasing excessive tension, Selma, sensations, Theory of Everything, unanswerable questions, wasted energy
By Selma Gokcen November 26, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags accuracy, act, Alexander Technique, attention, Awareness, back, blog, cello, cello playing, cellobello, detect your intention, discovery, distress, effect, effect on cello playing, effortless quality, experiment, familiar, fingers, Gokcen, Habits, head to toe, holding, motion, neck, neuromuscular system, our surroundings, overdoing, pack up our habits, position of rest, Preparation, response, response to life, Selma, sitting, solution, standing, successful functioning in daily activities, support, tension, the preparation phase of movement, well-practiced
By Selma Gokcen October 17, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags acrobatics, Alexander Technique, ankle, arms, cello, cello playing, cellobello, elbow, firm, foot, freedom of movement, Glenohumeral Joint, Gokcen, heavy lifting, hip, hunched shoulders, joints, knee, legs, Lumbar spine, mobility, muscles, pelvic structures, principles of stability and mobility, relationships, Scapula, Selma, shifting, shoulder girdle, Spine, stability, stable back, strong, Thoracic Spine, weight
By Selma Gokcen June 16, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags about thumbs, advances, Arizona State University, brain, brain space, cello, cellobello, Changes in the ligament, Chimps and monkeys, closed fist position, conform the thumb, dexterity, discussion, Gokcen, grasp, highest levels, index finger, language, manipulate tools, Mary Marzke, middle finger, modern humans, modified design, neck of the cello, opening and closing the hand, palm, physical anthropologist, playing a musical instrument, potential, primates, professor, Selma, skill, talent, Thumbs, variation
By Gregory Beaver May 27, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy, Practicing
Tags advanced breath control, aerobic exercise, Awareness, balance, Beaver, body, breath control, breathing, breathing with scales, CD player, cellists, cello, cellobello, chest, control, controlled frenzy, Coordination, diaphragm, emit sound, Gregory, heart rate, Improve your talent, improvement, light-headed, muscles, musicians, oxygen, practicing, relaxation, simple formula, skill, smoothness, stomach, strengthen the diaphragm, T’ai Chi, talent, Technique, trouble passages, unbalancing the body, weakness, yoga
By Gregory Beaver May 20, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy, Practicing
By Selma Gokcen April 18, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags abdominal muscles, affect, Alexander principle, Alexander Technique, attention, automatic process, breathing, breathing apparatus, breathing free, cello, cello pressing on chest, cellobello, chest cavity, conditions, correct position, divine influence, downward force of gravity, drink, efficient breathing, energy, enlivening, enter and depart life, exalting emotion, exercise, exhale, existing tension, expiration, food, freedom, freedom of the thorax and ribs, gases, Gokcen, gravity, guide, health, inspire, lungs, muscles, muscles relax, re-education, reducing air pressure, Selma, sequence, shift weight, straining for breath, touch, use affects function
By Elana Katz March 26, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags artistic clarity, balance, cellobello, clarity, comfortable position, concentrated creative expression, Cultivating softness, Elana Katz, elongation, energize, energy levels, exhale, heightened awareness, inhale, integrated into daily life, lungs, meditation, movement, muscular strength, nervous system, release, softness, strength, stretching, yoga
By Selma Gokcen March 11, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags aiming for a goal, Alexander Technique, automatic, balancing the instrument, bow, breath flowing, cello, cello technique, cellobello, conceptions, evaluate, Experience, exploring our habits, framework for self-study, freedom, fundamental knowledge, Gokcen, inner composer, lasting value of Alexander Technique, left hand, movement, muscular tension, music, musical expression, nervous system, phrasing, physical pleasure of playing, place of silence, Preconceived ideas, pressure in the sound, psycho-physical, re-training of musicians, reactions, refining sensation and awareness, self-study, Selma, Six Part Series, subconscious patterns of learning, tension, thinking, Thinking in a new way, working with music
By Selma Gokcen March 4, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
By Selma Gokcen February 25, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags Alexander Technique, arms, beauty, bend and extend, body at ease, bow strokes, Casals, cello, cello playing muscles, cellobello, challenges, collapse, contraction, dynamics, energy, fingers, flexible, function, Gokcen, Habits, importance of quietness, increased resistance, inner pitch, misguided effort and unease, nasal sound, neck, partnership, perspective, powerful accents, powerful arms, pressured sound, principle of opposition, process, pull and push, repeated sensory stimulation, Selma, sensitive gesture, sensory awareness, simple gesture, Six Part Series, teaching table, thinking in new ways, unwanted sound, volume, wrist
