Relax, recharge, and open up your playing at Meditation for Musicians: A City Retreat
Led By Madeline Bruser

Shambhala Meditation Center, 118 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor, New York, January 30-31

Saturday, January 30, 7pm: Public Talk
Sunday, January 31, 10am – 7:30pm: Meditation and Music Workshops

Come to a relaxed, noncompetitive environment and discover how meditation can help you cultivate the physical ease, mental focus, and emotional range you need for both practicing and performing. The program will include meditation instruction and practice, discussions, a contemplation to help you transform stage fright into confidence, and music workshops, for all instruments, combining physiological, meditative, and musical principles to help you

Sunday schedule
10:00 a.m. Meditation instruction and practice
12:00 noon Discussion
1:00 Lunch (order in or bring your own)
2:15 Walk to nearby Tenrii Cultural Institute
2:30 Music workshops
4:45 Tea break
5:15 Music workshops
6:45 to 7:30 Closing discussion

Performing participants (by application only): $190 full program (includes Saturday)

Nonperforming participants: $95 full program (includes Saturday)

To register, contact the Shambhala Meditation Center: 212-675-6544

Madeline Bruser has presented seminars and workshops at the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, the University of Southern California, the Canadian Conservatory of Music, the MedArt World Congress on Arts and Medicine, the World Piano Pedagogy Conference, the Music Teachers’ National Association convention, and college music departments and music teachers’ organizations in the United States and Canada.