Relax, Recharge, and Open Up Your Playing at the Fourth Annual

Meditation for Musicians Retreat

July 4 - 11, 2008

Come to an exquisite mountain meditation center in Vermont to renew your inspiration and discover new ways to relate with technique, practice, performing, and teaching at the fourth annual Meditation for Musicians Retreat. Situated on 540 acres of wooded country with a lake nearby, the retreat will be led by Madeline Bruser-pianist, teacher, and author of the highly acclaimed book The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart. The program will include meditation workshops and music workshops using meditative listening, sensory awareness, and relaxation techniques, to help you release physical and mental tension and transcend your current level of performance. Pianists performing in the workshops will also receive instruction in easeful posture and movement.

This program can help you

• Improve focus and increase enjoyment in practice and performance
• Achieve more emotional intensity with less physical tension
• Cultivate fluidity and rhythmic vitality
• Discover greater authenticity and conviction as a musician
• Perform with more confidence, warmth, and freedom

Professional and advanced amateur musicians of all instruments may apply to perform in the music workshops. Non-performing participants, who may observe these workshops and take part in the rest of the program, may be musicians at any level of study or expertise.

"The change was gentle and gradual, yet profound. It put me more in touch with my innermost artistic aspirations."
- Yegor Shevtsov, pianist, student at Manhattan School of Music

Download the application for performing participants
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Program fees:
Performing participants $695 ($200 a day)
Non-performing participants $495
(Prices include meals)

Information:
Tail of the Tiger Programs, Karme-Choling, Barnet, VT (802) 633-2384