Welcome to the MBMS Blog where you'll find articles and resources on topics like the Alexander Technique, music education, music performance, practicing, musician's health, creativity, spirituality and more.
by Peter Jacobson
Breathing has been an obsession of mine for the past 10 years. This obsession gets expressed in 2 areas.
The first area is overall health and well-being. In James Nestor's excellent book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, he says (and I...
by Peter Jacobson
This is second essay in a a new series called "The Way of the Peaceful Musician" series, which is also the theme of the 2024 MBMS Summer Retreat. You can read the first essay here.
I had my first Alexander Technique lesson in the summer of 2001, at the age of...
by Peter Jacobson
The theme of our 2024 summer retreat is The Way of the Peaceful Musician. Over the next few weeks, I'll be sharing a series of essays that will go deeper into the principles and practices that make up this approach. This introductory essay will set the stage...
by Peter Jacobson
I’m relaunching this blog.
And to do that I'm giving myself a fresh start.
I’ve published dozens of blog articles on a previous version of this blog. I may end up repurposing some of them later but for now I love the idea of starting with a clean...
By Peter Jacobson
Author's Note: This article was first published in 2015 and has proven to be our most popular blog post ever. I have learned much in the past 9 years, so I've decided to revise and update the original post to more accurately reflect my current approach.
