Timani 4-hours Online Standing and Sitting Posture Workshop
WHERE: Online
WHEN: 17th of September 2022
TIME: 2-6pm Oslo, Norway/Central European Time
(Other time zones: Los Angeles - 9 hours/New York/Toronto - 6 hours/London - 1 hour)
INSTRUCTOR: Tina Margareta Nilssen, Founder of Timani
WHO IS IT FOR: Performing musicians of any age, instrument/voice or genre, university professors, music school teachers, amateur musicians, practitioners working with musicians
WHAT’S INCLUDED: A 4-hour course online live with Tina, a 30 minute private follow-up session with Tina after the course, Timani written manuals (both Timani Basic manual and the Timani Breathing manual), a manual with all the exercises we go through during the course, a free book chapter from "Unleashing the potential of the musicians' body" written by Tina Margareta Nilssen!
PRICE: EUR 180/NOK 1800
If you have any questions about the workshop, contact Tina on e-mail: tina@timani.no
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Join the Timani Introduction Course to learn a proven method for a more efficient use of muscles when playing your instrument or singing. You’ll see how knowledge in anatomy and a new use of muscular coordination can quickly be trained to make your playing or singing more effortless!
Timani is a method that’s designed to help musicians understand and overcome challenges related to pain, injury, technical issues, sound production or even just to enhance once playing to access higher potential as a musician. By focusing on the physiological aspects of playing, it enables musicians to make the best use of their body while practicing and performing. It is used by musicians worldwide – from soloists to entire ensembles, and from students to established professionals – whether they have already experienced performance-related pain or injury or want to prevent them arising in the first place. Timani is also becoming increasingly popular in schools and colleges, taught by an ever-increasing network of teachers in fifteen countries who are inspired to pass on its benefits to musicians everywhere.
Timani provides a whole new awareness when it comes to exactly what we need with regard to the requirements of musicians. I am happy that I found something as specialized as this.
– Leif Ove Andsnes, pianist
Course set-up
In the course, you’ll learn
A lot of knowledge about breathing for singers and winds. This can also be applied in other instruments too!
Simple anatomical analysis of your playing or singing
Targeted exercises to access some new muscles and expand the movement options while playing or singing that everybody will learn
Implementation of the exercises while playing or singing
You’ll deepen your knowledge about the anatomy behind the exercises and gain insight into how this understanding influences how we play and sing.
The Essentials of Timani
Singing or playing an instrument requires complex, coordinated, and refined use of more than 600 muscles in your body. Timani helps you to understand your own anatomy and the relationship between your brain, body, and voice or instrument. It’s designed to improve the way you stand, sit, breathe, and move using individually customized exercises that offer the following benefits:
Musicality – enhancing technique, sound, timing, and creating more natural phrasing
Coordination –understanding the coordination needed to sing or play your instrument effortlessly
Health – knowing how you use your body to minimize the risk of performance-related injury or pain caused by misalignment and compensatory muscular patterns
Confidence –understanding the relationship between body and mind, which creates positive psychological effects and improves focus in the practice room and on stage
Potential –reaching your full potential as a musician by acquiring tools that will enable you to express yourself without being compromised by physical limitations
Course Instructor: Tina Margareta Nilssen
Tina is the founder of the Musicians’ Health and Movement Institute (MHMI), the author of "Unleashing the potential of the musician's body" and the creator of the movement system Timani, which develops a deep understanding of the body to support musical technique and performance. At the MHMI she runs a 3-year part-time certification program for professional musicians, training them to become Timani teachers and how to implement the knowledge in their own playing. Since 2007 she has taught Timani to thousands of musicians from all over the world, everything from youth- and professional orchestras, chamber music groups, music students and soloists.
Tina’s background in anatomy and movement comes from her studies as a Massage Therapist, Personal trainer (Norwegian Sports Academy), Kinetic Control Movement Therapist and twice a certified yoga teacher (200 and 300 hours), psychosomatic bodyworker, and mental coach.
As a pianist, she holds a MA from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo (Prof. Jens Harald Bratlie) and has performed solo and duet recitals in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, England, USA, Moscow, Italy, New York, and Philadelphia amongst other. She has released four critically acclaimed CDs and has received a number of grants and awards, including the two-year Norwegian artists’ working grant from the Norwegian Arts Council, Jansons Fund, RWE-Dea, and the Norwegian Fund for Performing Artists.