Category: Playing Healthy
By Selma Gokcen February 18, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags Alexander Technique, associations, balance, bowing, calm breathing, cello, cellobello, contraction, engage in conversation, exploration, Gokcen, Habits, head-neck-back relationship, ischial tuberosities, natural, natural movement, negative associations, one-sided instrument, opposition, pelvic rocker bones, positive associations, posture, power, practicing, quiet practice, receive the cello, relationships, rotation of the spine, Selma, shifting weight, simple activities, sitting, Six Part Series, Spine, tension, tension in shoulders and back, thinking in new ways, torso, understanding, value
By Selma Gokcen February 11, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags ability, Alexander Technique, attention to detail, bow arm, cellists, cello, cellobello, creating balance, cultivate awareness, energy flowing through the body, Gokcen, Habits, instrumentalists, Listening, music, musicians, opposition, Part II, powerful force of energy, proper weight transfer, quietness, relationship of the head back and spine, Selma, sharpening the senses, Six Part Series, tension in the neck, the back, Thinking in a new way, top level performing, trying, well-coordinated body, willing
By Selma Gokcen February 3, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags Alexander Technique, animate, arms, attention, automatic movement, back, behave, brain, cello, cellobello, collapse, doing, exploration, feet, fingers, force, Gokcen, Habits, hands, laying on the floor, learning, legs, manifest, mental messages, music, music-making, nature, neck, Observation, overcome deeply ingrained habits, Pablo Casals, Patrick Macdonald, perceive, powerful expressiveness, pressure, primary information, process, pushing, re-education, react, rediscovering, Selma, shortcuts, shoulders, strain, stretching, the value of quietness, thinking
By Mark Summer November 16, 2012
Subjects Playing Healthy, Travel
Tags blogs, cello, cellobello, concerts, environment, exercise, exhaustion, flights, flu relief, Habits, Healthy, illness, Mark, performances, pressure, Rest, string quartet, suggestions, Summer, swimming
By Selma Gokcen November 5, 2012
Subjects Playing Healthy, Practicing
By Selma Gokcen October 2, 2012
Subjects Playing Healthy, Practicing
By Selma Gokcen July 15, 2012
Subjects Playing Healthy
By Selma Gokcen June 15, 2012
Subjects Playing Healthy
By Aliza Stewart May 31, 2012
Subjects Playing Healthy
By Aliza Stewart May 18, 2012
By Selma Gokcen May 7, 2012
Subjects Playing Healthy
By Selma Gokcen April 23, 2012
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags Alexander Technique, anxiety, body, Casals, cello, cellobello, expression, Gokcen, movement, music, musicians, power, quietness, Selma, Spine
By Selma Gokcen March 13, 2012
Subjects Playing Healthy
By Selma Gokcen February 12, 2012
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags Alexander Technique, Awareness, body, cello, cellobello, Gokcen, healthy playing, lessons, Mind, movement, nature, Preparation, progress, repetition, Selma, sensations, Sensory, tension
By Selma Gokcen January 17, 2012
Subjects Playing Healthy
