—Teaching Saxophone, Mental Training & Timani—
If you are looking for guidance in terms of saxophone lessons, mental health or physical health for musicians you are in the right place.
If you order a regular saxophone lesson you will automatically get some parts of each topic with your lesson, from what Aina observes. However a Mental Training lesson or Timani lesson will of course have complete focus on your needs in terms of mental or physical health. Aina has several lectures ready for all topics and can also offer masterclasses with both saxophone, mental or physical health – or a combination. Book her for planning what you or your students are interested in.
Videos with Aina speaking in regards to her teaching:
Saxophone
Aina teach any level of saxophone, during both her BA & MA she studied pedagogic and took exams specifically for beginner, in between and advanced, in adition to her great experience as a performing artist herself. Her lessons are suited to your needs, both length and topic can be decided on beforehand. She recommends to order a set of lessons (min. 5) to get the full experience with follow up and content. She has a mastersdegree in classical saxophone and you can read in more detail under About or Honors & Achievements.
Timani
Aina is currently on her third year of studying Timani. That means she will be finished as a certified Timani teacher summer 2022. She has completed level 2 and is certified for the moment for individual lessons and lecturing on the topic.
Timani is a three year education for musicians to provide knowledge on improving and giving the most optimal muscle coordination while playing.
Quote from Timani website: Many musicians experience discomfort or injury some time in their career, or struggle with technical problems because of physical issues. The foundation of how we help musicians lies in the method Timani which is designed to help instrumentalists and singers understand and overcome such difficulties. By focusing on the physiological aspects of playing and singing, it enables musicians to make the best use of their body while practicing and performing. Timani draws on a deep understanding of science and anatomy. It is used by musicians worldwide – from soloists to entire ensembles, and from students to established professionals – whether they have already experienced performance-related pain or injury, or want to prevent them arising in the first place. Timani is also becoming increasingly popular in schools and colleges, taught by an ever-increasing network of teachers in fifteen countries who are inspired to pass on its benefits to musicians everywhere.
Mental Training
Mental training is something Aina studied during her BA at The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus as her BA-project. Since then it has developed to quite an interest turning out to be a big library full of great exercises for musicians to connect with their practicing and heal their nerves for performing.
She has read several books regarding how the brain works, how mentaltrainers work on athletes and how it is persepted in the musical world around the globe. In addition she has taken coaching-classes & and keep going to as many lectures and courses she can manage to keep developing her methods and ways to help musicians.
As Aina has years of experience with competing and performing she have had lots of time to test methods and experiment on her own as well. This has lead to a lot of great tricks to truly get most out of your practice and most out of you!
Through all of this Aina has developed a workshop, lecture, she is working on future webinars & is teaching mental training in individual sessions.
You can order your first mental training session FOR FREE through booking, and get the chance to improve and help whatever your needs are. The first session is of course with no strings attached!
If its new practicing methods, help with nerves, more understanding of the body, pure curiousness or an urge to improve even further and better with both your practicing & performing!
Current reading list:
Erik Bertrand Larssen; NÅ!, Helvetesuka, Bli best med mentaltrening
Anja Hammerseng-Edin; Fearless
Daniel Coyle; The Talentcode
Kaja Nordengen; Hjernen er stjernen
Johan Norberg; Vår utrolige hjerne
Katy Bowman; Move your DNA
Jesper Juul; Aggresjon
Own techniques & methods developed continuously
To read more about her BA-project isolated you can click here.