Your Body Is Your Instrument

Get the results and rewards from all the hard work you put into your study and career.

Would you like to get the most out of your music and take it to the next level?

Kinesiology has helped musicians in the following areas:
•    Voice preservation
•    Anxiety
•    Breathing control
•    Depression
•    Performance delivery
•    Postural Evaluation
•    Pain relief
•    Professional direction
•    Dexterity –(pianists, violin, bass)
•    Physical injuries
•    Enhancing concentration and Brain function for memory, exams etc.
•    Goal Setting

Specialized trainer and kinesiologist Ani Neradilkova runs a Sydney based Gladesville practise with 12 years experience. She has combined kinesiology, her knowledge as a songwriter and singer with specialised breathing techniques that have assisted musicians with the above specified music related issues. Kinesiology addresses the whole body in facilitating it to find balance around any given issue.  Your body is your instrument and Kinesiologist Ani Neradilkova has understood the importance of this in seeing musicians evolve through simple and effective kinesiology sessions.

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The Power of Deep Relaxation Using Your Breath

Most people have forgotten how to breathe properly. This has been taught from an early age, where we are often taught to “hold” in our feelings, not show pain, and physical often taught that a big breath is all held in our big lungs.
If you observe the way a baby breathes, you will notice the natural way we were all born to breathe, with the belly.
Our lungs often store old tension, old energy and old patterns/habits. B y consciously choosing to breathe, relax and ‘let go’ it can be astounding at what kind of benefits people report to experience.

The breath in beings new life, new energy, while the breath out get rid of the old energy, pain and tension.
    
Breathing exercises are an ideal way to relieve stress in that they’re fast, simple, free, and can be performed by just about anyone. They can also be done anywhere and at virtually any time. These factors make stress relief breathing exercises one of my most popular and convenient tension tamers.
Here’s how basic controlled breathing works:

1.    Sit or stand in a relaxed position.
2.    Let your lungs fall into the chair or floor
3.    Place one hand on your chest and the other on your abdomen. Slowly inhale through your nose, filling your belly like a big balloon
Take notice of how your upper chest and abdomen are moving while you breath. Concentrate on your breath and try to breathe in and out gently through the nose. Your upper chest and stomach should be still, allowing the diaphragm to work more efficiently with your abdomen and less with your chest.

4. Let the air out from through your nose, until there is no air left in your lungs or and your belly is also empty. Repeat several times. That’s it!

With each breath, allow any tension in your body to slip away. Once you are breathing slowly and with your abdominals, sit quietly and enjoy the sensation of physical relaxation.

Tips:

1.    As you breathe, relax your lungs, let your abdomen expand outward, rather than raising your shoulders. This is a more relaxed and natural way to breathe.

2.    You can do this just a few times to release tension, or for several minutes as a form of meditation.


3.    If you have a particular physical pain in your body, just focus on your calm breathing and hold that area of your body in mind. You can ‘let’ the fresh, new breath expand to that area.

4.    If you have emotional tension, stress or worries, as with physical pain, just focus on your breath and allow that trouble or stress to be dissolved as you breathe. Do not try to analyse it. JUST BREATHE!

What You Need:

•    A few seconds or minutes each day
•    Lots of water
•    Quiet space
•    Your attention
    
Your body will adore you and reward you for taking the initiative to breathe deeply. There is a soaring vitality and deep peace waiting for you!

To live in greatness and be in our highest potential being grounded and present in our bodies is essential. The breath is the key to this.

A result of proper breathing allows us to enjoy our natural state of being - Joy. We wake up feeling refreshed, connected, mentally clear, have a positive attitude and abundant energy levels. A deeper breath that is calm and consistent enables our whole body to benefit from higher levels of oxygen and life force.

With increased oxygen levels in our body we are able to heal faster and alleviate many symptoms of ill health. Shortness of breath contributes to lack of oxygen. Our tissues can literally starve from a lack of oxygen. Many imbalances in the physical body and mind have a direct relationship with our breathing patterns.

Sometimes the key is so simple that we miss it and forget how easy it can be to EMBRACE what we are.



The experience is infectious and once you experience what it can do for you, you can't help but smile and share it with others.

Your breath is the key to life and your wisdom.

Using this technique aids you to be more mindful which is another tool for stress management and overall wellness because it can be used at virtually any time and can quickly bring lasting results. The following mindfulness exercises are simple and convenient, and can lead you to a deeper experience of mindfulness in your daily life.

Some Mindfulness exercises:
?    Observing Your Thoughts
?    Deep breathing
?    Listening to music
?    Cleaning clutter
?    Physical stretching and gentle exercise including the deep breathing techniques

Some more tips to help you deal with stress and tension
?    Sit with a close friend and share your feelings
?    Have regular catch up time with someone you can talk to either in person or on the phone. If you have more than one person then even better.
?    Enjoy going for a walk with a friend or by yourself
?    Treat yourself to a special meal or treat or body treatment every week.
?    Engage in a group activity regularly
?    Remember you are NEVER alone!
?    There IS always someone who cares about you.

More Information about the breathing:

The brain sets the breathing rate according to carbon dioxide levels, rather than oxygen levels. When a person is under stress, their breathing pattern changes. Typically, an anxious person takes small, shallow breaths, using their shoulders rather than their diaphragm to move air in and out of their lungs. This style of breathing empties too much carbon dioxide out of the blood and upsets the body’s balance of gases. Shallow over-breathing - or hyperventilation - can prolong feelings of anxiety by exacerbating physical symptoms of stress, including:

    * Chest tightness
    * Constant fatigue
    * Faintness and light headedness
    * Feelings of panic
    * Headaches
    * Heart palpitations
    * Insomnia
    * Muscular aches, twitches or stiffness
    * Tingling, numb and cold hands and face.

The relaxation response
When a person is relaxed, their breathing is nasal, slow, even and gentle. Deliberately mimicking a relaxed breathing pattern seems to calm the autonomic nervous system, which governs involuntary bodily functions. Physiological changes can include:

    * Lowered blood pressure and heart rate
    * Reduced amounts of stress hormones
    * Reduced lactic acid build-up in muscle tissue
    * Balanced levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood
    * Improved immune system functioning
    * Increased physical energy
    * Feelings of calm and wellbeing.