Inner Listening - Piano

Inner-listening is not a new idea. In its general applications, inner-listening is a skill that can be applied to any endeavor apart from music. In spiritual matters, every person seeking awareness of their own soul’s needs to experience the uniqueness of their divinity needs this skill to distinguish themselves from an inherited religion where they learned what “we believe….” I discovered using a piano as biofeedback training for unwinding tensions associated with a congenital spasticity. I listened to the qualities in sounds that reflected my breathing, posture and attitudes, finding simple motifs/phrases that were building blocks of music; I was exploring the sounds of my inability to play music, and backed my way into finding healing music within me. Musicians trained to play composed music are unprepared to practice this inner-listening; I would like to introduce you to this practice with your voice or other instrument, in movement or stillness…. listen within, then together, we find connection in the sounds of shared spirit.