Improve your breathing and enhance your performance by knowing the anatomy and muscular coordination behind your technique.

WHO IS IT FOR: Performing musicians of any age, instrument/voice or genre, university professors, music school teachers, amateur musicians, practitioners working with musicians

Time: 1.5 hour workshop, 20:00 - 21:30 CET (Central European Time)

Date: Tuesday 8th April 2025

Place: Online

Cost: Free

For more information and to sign up, click HERE

Workshop set-up

In the workshop, you’ll learn

• A lot of knowledge about breathing for singers and winds. This can also be applied in other instruments too!

• Targeted exercises to access some new muscles and expand the movement options while playing or singing

• 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.

For more information and to sign up, click HERE

Understand how the shoulders can impact performance and enhance your performance by knowing the anatomy and muscular coordination behind your technique.

WHO IS IT FOR: Performing musicians of any age, instrument/voice or genre, university professors, music school teachers, amateur musicians, practitioners working with musicians

Time: 1.5 hour workshop, 20:00 - 21:30 CET (Central European Time)

Date: Wednesday 9th April 2025

Place: Online

Cost: Free

For more information and to sign up, click HERE

Workshop set-up

In the workshop, you’ll learn

• A lot of knowledge about the shoulders, including the anatomy, the function, and their impact on playing or singing.

• Targeted exercises to access some new muscles and expand the movement options while playing or singing

• 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.

For more information and to sign up, click HERE

Understand how tension can impact performance and enhance your performance by knowing the anatomy and muscular coordination behind your technique.

Time: 1.5 hour workshop, 20:00 - 21:30 CET (Central European Time)

Date: Thursday 10th April 2025

Place: Online

Cost: Free

WHO IS IT FOR: Performing musicians of any age, instrument/voice or genre, university professors, music school teachers, amateur musicians, practitioners working with musicians

For more information and to sign up, click HERE

Workshop set-up

In the workshop, you’ll learn

• A lot of knowledge about what tension is, how to use it in singing and playing, and how to let go excess tension.

• Targeted exercises to access some new muscles and expand the movement options while playing or singing

• 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.

For more information and to sign up, click HERE