Tara Bouman: Yoga und Music
Project “Tara Bouman: Yoga und Music”
Tara Bouman: Yoga und Music
A balanced body in performance
Yoga can help the body and the mind to stay centered, to enjoy, to relax.
One of the focus points in Yoga is alignment: the proper placement of the bones so that the muscles do less work, and balancing the left and the right side of the body.
Most musical instruments cause tension in different parts of the body (shoulders, arms, spine) due to one-sided practicing and due to the fact that hardly any instrument allows a symmetrical body posture.
Doing yoga exercises one learns to overcome these tensions, to stay centered when performing, and to connect with ones inner source.
This course is for everybody interested in improving his/her performing practice, for everybody with or without Yoga experience.
It offers:
A group Yoga lesson each morning, mainly Asanas (body postures)
individual sessions with each student playing his/her instrument and analyzing his/her way of moving, breathing, playing
During these lessons individual yoga and musical exercises will be given and there will be a focus on musical interpretation as well.
a group Pranayama lesson – (breath control) late afternoon
Tara Bouman is a clarinetist who performed all over Europe, and in North and South America, as well as a Yoga teacher. She is following the last Year of the Iyengar Yoga teacher training.
In Cologne she teaches a course "Yoga for musicians".
