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RE: Way too tense

Author: Daniel
Date: 1999-07-16 04:31

My flute teacher is very big on the relaxation and breathing techniques. There's lots of stuff she's taught me and most of it too complex to explain over the computer... but it's helped me relax and rethin my posture and position. Make sure you keep your sholders relaxed. A neckstrap helps. Keep your shoulder blades back. That seems to correct my hand position some (i have fairly long arms). When you inhale, fill your whole chest... not just filling your stomach. She basically says that if you fill your stomach instead of your chest, then the air has to travel that much farther and endurance is cut back. It's okay to push up with your diaphram, but you want your chest to xpand up raising your sternum, instead of out like a balloon. You need to let the air just flow out instead of pushing it out. If you're having to push, you're tensing up. And tensing up causes lots of problems... obviously...
wish there was a better way to convey all this.. heh..
She also has me use the Breath Builder. Very effective in many areas...

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