Alex Welch

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Alex Welch

  • Home
  • about Alex
  • Music
    • orchestra and ensemble
    • moving strings
    • string quartet
    • arranging and composing
  • education and research
    • Play As We Are
    • viola/violin lessons
    • creative music making
  • Mindfulness
    • Mindfulness for musicians
    • Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

Mindfulness for Musicians - upcoming sessions

These practical sessions are for musicians who want to learn more about mindfulness: whether you are new to this topic and would like to discover what exactly meditation and mindfulness is, or perhaps have more experience and would like to deepen your practice.

 Examples of topics that we will cover:

Awareness: what does the mind do when we play? What happens in our body? What happens in the space? What information do we get from our senses? 

Physicality: How fully present are we in our bodies? Can we go deeper and more  detailed in our knowledge and experience of our mind-body? Can we experience more “bodyfulness”.  

Emotions: How do we experience and cope with anxiety, fear, disappointment?

Stress: How do we handle the particular stresses of our lives as musicians? Our lives in general…..

 All sessions will take place in OT301 - Overtoom 301, Amsterdam

They can be attended as a series, or you can drop in on individual sessions:

Wednesday Nov 19   19 - 21.00

Friday  Nov 28   18.30 - 20.30

Tuesday  Dec 9     18.30 - 20.30

Wednesday  Dec 17   19 - 21.00

€20 per session
please mail, call or app me to sign up

 On Wednesdays Nov 19 and Dec 17 there will be a Moving Strings/Play As We Are session from 17.00 in the same location. You are also warmly invited to these open classes (as well as our other Wednesday classes!)
You can read more about them and sign up here:

http://www.movingstrings.com/#/

Mindfulness

I have been practising meditation and mindfulness for several years and it has had a profound effect on my practice as a musician, as well as on my life in general.

I share my methods and exercises with others, often together with my colleagues from Play As We Are.

This year I will complete my studies as a trainer for Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction - a secular, scientifically researched method, which teaches the basics of meditation.

Please get in touch if you would like to take the course with me this coming spring 2025

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info@alexwelch.nl

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