Mind.Music.Sanctuary
Coaching musicians through Yoga & Meditation to make music-making a sanctuary
Imagine….
Waking up feeling focused, grounded and excited about your day.
Being able to ground yourself before a performance and knowing you can express your musical message, your way.
Having a focused practice session while being in your sanctuary to get the work done that you want to get done, efficiently and easily.
Checking in regularly with yourself, doing yoga and mediation to bring yourself back to that post-yoga glow whenever you wanted.
This is how you feel once you enter the Mind.Music.Sanctuary
Sanctuary Options
Visit Your School
Masterclass Topics offered:
Mindfulness in the Practice Room: Learning to identify the tools and strategies to implement Centering, Focus, Patience and Intuition
Performing with Care: Learning to use tools to perform more consistently when you experience performance anxiety
So You Want to play in an Orchestra: Identifying what your values are and how to find happiness and fulfillment in your career.
Mindfulness 101: The basics on establishing a mindfulness practice. Exploring four different Mindfulness practices to see how they work and what resonates best with you!
Mindfulness isn't a one size fits all! These classes include various shorter exercises that can offer a huge impact on improving performance. Working with a class on mindfulness techniques for everyone to try and experiment with.
Workshops/Residencies
More of a full emersion in the Sanctuary! The experience happens over 2-3 days. This can include Masterclasses in both Mindfulness topics as well as Trumpet, Warm-up/Fundamental Sessions, Yoga/Meditation Sessions, Private lessons and a Recital to put it all together. You can design your program’s needs. Can be presented in-person or on-line.
Weekly Online Yoga Classes
Exactly as it sounds, JoAnn teaches a weekly online Kundalini Yoga Class. All experience levels are welcome. For the Zoom Link, Contact JoAnn.
Private Trumpet Lessons
JoAnn has been teaching trumpet for all levels from beginners to professionals for over 25 years. Currently: Lecturer in Trumpet at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Trumpet Faculty at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s YOLA National Festival. Lessons can be experienced both in-persona and online.
Private Yoga Session
You tell JoAnn what you would like to focus on and we can work together to address those concerns through yoga and mediation. Topics explored can range from musical concerns to building confidence, reducing anxiety in pressure situations, feeling more focused, etc. If you can think of it, we can address it! Sessions can be experienced both in-persona and online.
Why I can help you?
It wasn't that long ago that I struggled with balancing my life. I was a basket case at auditions, and felt like I was less-than because I didn't win a job right out of school. I was fortunate enough to study with Don Greene. He introduced me to healthy mindful habits to use throughout my life and get into balance. I started meditating daily and found Kundalini Yoga classes.
Slowly but surely, I started to feel grounded in ways I had never experienced before, confident to make decisions and really go for it at auditions, rather than half-ass it because I didn't want to know if my best just wasn't good enough, and I became less frazzled by all of the hats I had to wear as a freelance musician. After establishing mindfulness practices, I advanced at the first audition I took. Finally I felt like I had something to build on and eventually my first win happened.
Fast Forward 14 years of regularly practicing Kundalini Yoga, I was afforded the time (thanks pandemic) to get my Level 1 Kundalini Yoga Teacher Certification from the Kundalini Research Institute in April of 2021.
I decided to start Mind.Music.Sanctuary
to help musicians find a mindfulness practice that works for them and their music making. I love to talk with people and hear their story. I also love yoga/mediation and how it makes me feel. Combining these with music is how I feel I can contribute to the greater good in our world. The goal at Mind. Music. Sanctuary is to create a community of sharing to better everyone around us.
