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John OvertonAcupressure, breathing-facilitation, stress-release, music-mentoring, coaching.- I spent a long time "battling
against myself" in practising, playing, composing and organizing music.
It was only when I let
go that I began to understand that I had been my own worst
"enemy" - I started to work with my body and with my innate
spirit to heal the unconscious war that had prevented me from
expressing my fuller Self in my music.
As
part of my awakening to the malaise of stressful music-making and the
toll it was taking on my body, mind and spirit, I enrolled in training
that would lead me to study Traditional
Chinese Medicine through acupressure. My
main teacher and mentor, Yaquta Morton,
was also a gifted violinist, and it soon became clear to me how
acupressure could be used to heal both obvious and hidden blocks to
professional music-making. One of the beauties of this ancient system
is that the musician (and indeed, anyone who is open to it) can be
shown how to self-heal. Previously I had studied Feldenkrais exercises;
with the life-changing series of week-long workshops in Re-birthing/Source Breathing and
related alternative therapies that I was now immersed in, I was
beginning to understand how I could combine these with accompanying,
mentoring (especially for emerging younger musicians) and coaching. |
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2008
