Thursday, July 26, 2012
A new summer, a new schedule, new ideas
I have not visited this blog in a long time - it's overdue for an update! I'm still trying to figure out how to make it look just right. Summer Courses at Rudolf Steiner College www.rudolfsteinercollege.edu have just finished for me. It has been an incredible experience once again, meeting hundreds of people: experienced working teachers and those who are still aspiring to become teachers; established musicians and those who are terrified of tapping into their musical side; people older than my parents and people barely older than my oldest child, all sharing the experience of discovering Waldorf Education. Soul-Healing can take place here in record time, laughter and tears sit really close together, enthusiastic energy and deep fatigue seem to be hopelessly entangled on a daily basis. Many new connections have been made and many inspired, hopeful plans discussed. This last month alone over 30 people have looked at my embarrassingly outdated blog page! I better pick up the slack.
The next couple of weeks are set aside for creating a new schedule for the coming school year, packing it as full as possible without losing valuable family time.
I am gearing up for another fun block with the waldorf-inspired home schooled children at www.wholisticlearningresources.net, planning another couple of group singing-lessons and teaching-aid courses for music in the classroom, scheduling mentoring and music support-visits with several Waldorf schools and reserving a limited number of time-slots for private lessons.
And of course, I am looking forward to another awesome season with the Sacramento Master Singers!
www.mastersingers.org
My schedule for the upcoming school year will be posted within the next three weeks. Please subscribe to get notification of new postings!
The next couple of weeks are set aside for creating a new schedule for the coming school year, packing it as full as possible without losing valuable family time.
I am gearing up for another fun block with the waldorf-inspired home schooled children at www.wholisticlearningresources.net, planning another couple of group singing-lessons and teaching-aid courses for music in the classroom, scheduling mentoring and music support-visits with several Waldorf schools and reserving a limited number of time-slots for private lessons.
And of course, I am looking forward to another awesome season with the Sacramento Master Singers!
www.mastersingers.org
My schedule for the upcoming school year will be posted within the next three weeks. Please subscribe to get notification of new postings!
Thursday, August 25, 2011
summer activities
Some people are at the beach, in the mountains, tropics, rivers, visiting new places. Some day I will do that, too. But this Summer I am busy exploring a new place right here in my own home. I love being in this new room!
Bill helped me re-finish an old bookshelf I found at the thrift store. It looks beautiful now! I have a few folding chairs now, although I will need a few more, a water dispenser and a wooden music stand that sits on top of the piano. I have a little metal cash-box and books to keep my records in.
Dozens of folders with sheet music and workshop packets are being sorted into Binders while the cat looks on - my new air-conditioner is cooling the space beautifully. I never seem to be able to finish the task - there is always more, but my new bookshelves can hold it all in the end. I knew I had a lot of music collected over the years, but only now am I realizing just how much. And I also know: I'm only scratching the surface: there is so much more amazing music out there, ready to be explored. I am searching for music to sing with my 2 new groups of children at Holistic Learning Resources and it's hard to do without knowing the children at all.
Practicing the piano is my activity when I take a break. It's fun and yet terrible, because the poor instrument is so awfully out of tune. I'm saving up for a good tuner. Not yet....
Gradually, occasionally, students begin to find their way to my new studio this August. Soon I will have many, a constant stream of enthusiastic singers, blessing my work space.
Bill helped me re-finish an old bookshelf I found at the thrift store. It looks beautiful now! I have a few folding chairs now, although I will need a few more, a water dispenser and a wooden music stand that sits on top of the piano. I have a little metal cash-box and books to keep my records in.
Dozens of folders with sheet music and workshop packets are being sorted into Binders while the cat looks on - my new air-conditioner is cooling the space beautifully. I never seem to be able to finish the task - there is always more, but my new bookshelves can hold it all in the end. I knew I had a lot of music collected over the years, but only now am I realizing just how much. And I also know: I'm only scratching the surface: there is so much more amazing music out there, ready to be explored. I am searching for music to sing with my 2 new groups of children at Holistic Learning Resources and it's hard to do without knowing the children at all.
Practicing the piano is my activity when I take a break. It's fun and yet terrible, because the poor instrument is so awfully out of tune. I'm saving up for a good tuner. Not yet....
Gradually, occasionally, students begin to find their way to my new studio this August. Soon I will have many, a constant stream of enthusiastic singers, blessing my work space.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
teaching is inspiring!
I am now in the fourth week of teaching summer courses at Rudolf Steiner College. So many people from all over the country are there, seeking inspiration, information and transformation. Many have come and found new courage and joy in their singing, many have overcome their fear and resistance and want more. They wish me to teach in Southern California, Colorado, Arizona, Oregon, New Hampshire, Ohio.... Although I cannot possibly be in all these places, I could visit - and so my work grows. I am grateful for so much support from the Universe, because I am energized, warmed to the core and in the flow of intuitive teaching all day and then deeply exhausted when I am at home. Sleep is the only thing that still works then.
If all teachers could sing, listen, teach and simply BE with this immense joy I feel when I teach, I think they would never again have classroom-management problems, or struggle with those seemingly unsolvable, heartbreaking conflicts with their colleagues or parents. Blessings on your Songs!
If all teachers could sing, listen, teach and simply BE with this immense joy I feel when I teach, I think they would never again have classroom-management problems, or struggle with those seemingly unsolvable, heartbreaking conflicts with their colleagues or parents. Blessings on your Songs!
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
It's time!
I returned recently from 4 days intensive work with my teacher and colleague Christiaan Boele. I am once again re-inspired, encouraged and have a few new perspectives on the School of Uncovering the Voice. I am so humbly grateful and happy to be able to work with these incredible tools for artistic expression, freeing the voice and balancing the listening, all the while being at the forefront for the advancement of the human soul! Things are beginning to happen: the calls are coming in, networking is in full swing, requests for more of my work abound. Do you want a lesson? schedule it soon, it looks like I will be filling up quickly.
Bill is installing a little air-conditioner for us tomorrow and the curtain rods are going in, some strong men will help to move the piano in - and I am ready to work come Friday!
Next stop: piano tuner.
RSC student home by night, music studio by day - that's what it will be throughout July.
I'm excited!
Blessings,
Eva
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
My Wishlist For my Fledgling Business
An Apple laptop Computer
with an easy to use accounting software
a coat stand (and maybe an umbrella stand)
A professional looking little brochure and
A perfectly groomed back-door entrance, complete with gate, ramp, beautiful bushes and a smooooth pathway!
A complete, simple set of recording equipment
a good stereo
A new guitar
Good quality electronic keyboard
who can help me delete the next item?
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