Tag: attention
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 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 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 Wayne Burak January 21, 2013
Subjects Instrument Care
Tags accessories, attention, bow, bow grip, bow rehair, Brazilwood, Burak, cello, cello bow, cello cases, cello strings, cellobello, computer back up, computers, fresh bow rehair, frog, frog position, humidity, instrument cases, latches, music, New Year's resolutions, organization, organization of sheet music, pearl eye, pernambuco, rock stops, rosin, sheet music, strings, tension, warp, Wayne
By Blogmaster August 27, 2012
Subjects Travel
Tags air, airlines, attention, cello, cellobello, checked baggage, extra airline seats, FAA, FAA passenger bill of rights, flying, flying with cello, flying with instruments, instrument restrictions, instruments on flights, Katz, media, news, Paul, restrictions, safety, stowage, Travel, traveling with cello, traveling with instruments, WestJet
By Selma Gokcen October 22, 2011
Subjects Playing Healthy
By Selma Gokcen July 9, 2011
Subjects Playing Healthy