Mindfulness Meditation for Musicians with Barbara Bogatin -- Part 2: Practice and Attention
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Building on the first workshop, this second session focuses more specifically on practice and attention. Bogatin will continue exploring mindfulness meditation as it relates to conscious practice, including ways of slowing down thought processes and focusing the mind.
Learn how a mindful approach to music making can help create more calm, ease, and joy in music.
Offered in collaboration with the Amateur Music Network (AMN)
https://amateurmusic.org
About the Instructor
Barbara Bogatin has been a cellist with the San Francisco Symphony since 1994. In addition to her symphonic career she has created a curriculum on Mindfulness Meditation for Musicians, integrating her training in Buddhist contemplative practice with principles relevant to music performance and instrumental practice.
She has presented seminars at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Juilliard School, One Heart Institute Summer Program, and Universities of Southern California, Indiana, and Nevada. Along with her neuroscientist husband Clifford Saron, she has given workshops called “The Buddha, the Brain, and Bach” that explore the intersection of meditation, creativity, and neuroplasticity, at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Esalen, Stanford University, Telluride Compassion Festival, and at conferences in Italy, Spain, Austria, and South Africa.
Barbara has published articles in the San Francisco Chronicle, Strings Magazine, Senza Sordino, and SF Classical Voice. She holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School.
https://www.barbarabogatin.com/
Learn how a mindful approach to music making can help create more calm, ease, and joy in music.
Offered in collaboration with the Amateur Music Network (AMN)
https://amateurmusic.org
About the Instructor
Barbara Bogatin has been a cellist with the San Francisco Symphony since 1994. In addition to her symphonic career she has created a curriculum on Mindfulness Meditation for Musicians, integrating her training in Buddhist contemplative practice with principles relevant to music performance and instrumental practice.
She has presented seminars at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Juilliard School, One Heart Institute Summer Program, and Universities of Southern California, Indiana, and Nevada. Along with her neuroscientist husband Clifford Saron, she has given workshops called “The Buddha, the Brain, and Bach” that explore the intersection of meditation, creativity, and neuroplasticity, at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Esalen, Stanford University, Telluride Compassion Festival, and at conferences in Italy, Spain, Austria, and South Africa.
Barbara has published articles in the San Francisco Chronicle, Strings Magazine, Senza Sordino, and SF Classical Voice. She holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School.
https://www.barbarabogatin.com/
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