Two Saturdays: April 10 and April 24, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Eastern Time. Participants must be available for both days.

Self-care for musicians

This self-care and improv music-making/visioning 2- day webinar is designed to provide physical, emotional and social support for Musicians. 

Participants will be invited into an embodied experience of making music by coming into the body with breathing and movement practices designed to support proper alignment for music making. Participants will engage in a meditation for creative visioning and work with creating and playing their own musical affirmations. 

Webinar components include:

• Resilience building

• Self-Care

• Breathing techniques

• Posture/Alignment

• Meditation

• Upper body

• Spine

• Lower body

• Focus and balance

• Sound healing and reflective writing prompts

• Musical affirmations and improvisational music making

Each session will begin with movement and end with the musical exercises. There will be a short break if participants need to adjust their computer cameras or change their space for the transition from movement to music. 

You will need your instrument; the movement portions will be guided for you to either sit in a chair or use a yoga mat to do the practice on the floor. Also have with you a journal and water for hydration.

OPEN TO ANY MUSICIAN

Cost for the 2-day webinar is $90. CMPs and graduates from other therapeutic music training programs earn 4 CEUs. 

This webinar is facilitated by Rachel Allen, CMP, Registered Yoga Teacher, Reiki Master and Sound Healer

Rachel’s experience includes 17 years of hospice as a CMP serving patients in a variety of conditions at Windber Hospice. Rachel has also 6 years of experience providing Trauma Sensitive yoga and facilitating expressive music to women who are incarcerated, survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, in various community-based settings.

Rachel has performed as a solo artist throughout the region as well as with Bo Moore as part of the acoustic duo, Rachel and Bo and with her multi-instrumentalist son Johnny Bayush. She currently sings in a group that does primarily a cappella music called Her Harmony.

She is involved nationally with The Breathe Network as a rostered healing arts practitioner, Yoga Service Council, an organization that seeks to bring Practices of healing to underserved populations, and regionally with Unity Coalition of the Southern Alleghenies, a Social Justice organization dedicated to building peace in the community.

Rachel facilitates yoga, healing music and movement experiences at her home studio, now virtually, at retreats and conferences and offers training on trauma, Compassion Fatigue and Mindfulness throughout the USA and internationally. Her business is called YogaSong: Merging Music, Yoga and Community

OPEN TO ANY MUSICIAN

Cost for the 2-day webinar is $90. CMPs and graduates from other therapeutic music training programs earn 4 CEUs. 

Important notices you agree to:

1. Webinar registration form and payment must be received by MHTP at least 7 days prior to each webinar.

2. I will set up a free Zoom account for the webinar (Facilitator will send instructions).

3. I must complete the class evaluation form at the end of the webinar to receive all take-home information.

Cancellation: If MHTP cancels this webinar because of too few participants or any other reason, all participants will be notified via email and will receive a full refund. If a participant must cancel, that participant should immediately notify MHTP. If a participant cancels more than one week in advance of the first workshop, a full refund will be given. If a participant cancels less than one week in advance (after 4:00pm EST April 3), no refund will be given.