There comes a time while playing music, when we become blocked. Perhaps it is the limit of our musical ability, or the limit of what we feel is acceptable to express. Or it is a moment in our creative process when we simply cannot go further, or we do not know the way forward. Some inner or outer resistance prevents us from continuing. This moment can also happen when we are working with someone else’s music (perhaps as a teacher, or perhaps while practicing the tools of Unintentional Music). Our student reaches her edge, and we are both stuck.
In Nature, when a stream is blocked, the water seems to stop flowing. Then the water rises and finds a new way around. In the same way, when our music stops flowing, we can raise our awareness of what is happening in the blocked area, and wait for the process itself to show us a new way forward.
Unintentional Music sees blockages as places of potential growth. With precise tools, respect, and heart, we can learn to find value and beauty in that which we usually experience as frustrating and impassable. We may discover that our musical process is beckoning us toward personal and musical transformation.
This seminar will use a combination of demonstrations, practical exercises, play, inner work and discussion. You will learn and practice tools to help work with the blocks to your own (and other people’s) musical edges.
Please bring your instruments and a sense of adventure.
