Body Mapping: What every musician needs to know about the body

Complete this sentence:

‘Musicians _ _ _ _ _ _ for a living’

If your very first response to this request was any kind of ‘moving’ word, that is rare.

Dancers & sports people are commonly regarded as moving for a living. But musicians rarely think of themselves as “movers”. And yet, without movement of some kind, a musician can’t create any sound at all; and without a nuanced awareness and control of movement they can’t affect the quality of sound. Now, quality of sound is definitely regarded as a musician’s concern!

And that is why in this course you will be learning accurate information about your body in movement as the most efficient and ecological way to learn or teach musical skills.

This Body Mapping course offers you a framework for integrated movement to improve your music making and acts as a foundation for creating compelling, artistically satisfying and reliable performances. Body Mapping has the potential to save musical careers, since the awareness and movement skills learnt, help to alleviate chronic tension, pain or injury. In turn performers may experience improved mental health.

In this course you will:

View the following video for a quick tour of the course content and learning platform.

Optional inclusions in this course:

1. You can choose to submit an assignment and receive feedback at the end of each of the five lessons to assist in learning.

2. You can choose to participate in live online sessions on the content of each lesson and ask questions or raise any learning issues. This live interaction also allows the course presenter to observe you in movement, check on your understanding and suggest where you can make further exploration where appropriate. Details of these sessions are sent on enrolment.

You are welcome to join in this transformative learning journey. Just scroll back up this page, select “Take this course”, and you’re on your way to improved movement health, enhanced expression and experiencing the joy of music making without limitation!