Keys to the Soul
The art of authentic musical expression
Play the Music of Your Heart
A holistic approach to finding and developing your artistic voice. Music is not just about playing the song, but telling the story of your heart.
Join us on a 4-week Live on Zoom, immersive, guided exploration of the soul through your musical instrument. Geared towards all levels of musicians. Recommended for chordal instruments
What does it mean to engage with the heart? Why is this relevant?
Engaging with the heart, expressing from the heart, is about radical honesty. It’s about courageous truth. It is about transcending the subtle fears and conditioning that chain us to ‘playing it safe.’ It is about opening the mind, relaxing thought and allowing something greater to come through. It is about taking your hand out of the pot and allowing the entropy of the universe to flow.
Often when we feel uninspired, antsy, numb, blocked— we think we can’t create. The truth is that creating from the heart isn’t about trying to morph it into something ‘you want,’ it’s about being HONEST about how you presently feel. This course is about connecting with the feelings that are currently arising, and using your instrument to transmuting them into art! It’s about taking the colors of the human experience and giving them a place to be expressed. Rather than fighting all the worry or the fear or the numbness, we attune ourselves to it and go to our instruments! We let these emotions tell there story. In this way, we simultaneously heal ourselves through music, AND we create some of our most beautiful and authentic art by allowing this more attuned connection to our feelings to propel us into uncharted territory. The real, raw, bleeding territory of the heart! True grief, true anger, true existential restlessness, true joy, true nostalgia, true love.
4 heart-centered weeks
Week 1 we connect with our inner ear, and listen closely to our hearts. Treating our instruments as vessels of expression, we start gently and snowball our emotions into something truly magnificent and real.
Week 2 we cultivate harmonic and textural vocabularies by 1) consciously making mistakes to find things so new and uniquely ours (discovering at the forefront of our musical horizon), and 2) stealing from people who inspire us deeply. This is all about creating a sound and style that feels true to you. It is the palette from which you will paint your heart.
Week 3 is about digging deeper into limiting beliefs and investigating more deeply into your inner world. When you can see the chains, they are easier to undo! We will be experimenting with journaling inquiry combining musical exercises, and using playing as catharsis for the emotional body that wants to be released. We will find some deep beauty here
Week 4 is about setting you up to continue these practices. Sharing the songs we all will have written by the end of the course, and
Throughout the course I will help you to expand your expressive capacity through guided meditations, journaling prompts, and musical exercises. I will also be offering harmonic suggestions and help with pushing r over the edge of your perceived musical and expressive limits.
Four group zoom calls (90 minutes each), plus introductory one on one meeting with me. Sundays at 11:30am PST
Being a Fearless Creative Force
In this course we will be getting to know our own inner landscape more deeply, using our instruments as tools of self inquiry, ultimately finding the confidence and attuned sensitivity to share our raw, honest, truth.
Connecting with and courageously expressing this truth is the clearest path towards creating the beautiful, heart-wrenchingly honest art that we so deeply long to share.
