Greetings Everyone and Happy New Year!
Starting on January 11th, 2025, running for 5 consecutive weeks, I will be giving a course on Zoom titled "Five Vital Approaches To Practicing" all at 11am Eastern Time. Zoom links will be emailed a couple of days before each session. Donation instructions are below.
Inspiration for the Course
Since we spend so much time at certain points in our playing life practicing alone, it is important to realize we are never really practicing alone! We are always “attended” by our state of consciousness, mindset, attitudes, expectations, moods, successes, failures, timelines etc. and what these attract to ourselves whether useful or not useful. These thoughts create an internal ecology which oversees or governs our practice sessions.
Oftentimes, we don’t have a clear plan to help. And there are many plans that do help! I’ve been thinking about this particular plan that will be featured in this 5 part course. "Five Vital Approaches To Practicing" is intended to give more options and insightfulness to the player’s practice sessions hence being more aware to help in getting off the hamster wheel of repetition that often can turn into a rut.
Zoom Session Topics and Schedule
Zoom Session 1- You Become What You Practice 1/11
Zoom Session 2- You Become Why You Practice 1/18
Zoom Session 3- You Become How You Practice 1/25
Zoom Session 4- You Become When You Practice 2/1
Zoom Session 5- You Become Where You Practice 2/8
If possible, I encourage those interested to attend all 5 sessions to see the connection and interaction of these 5 approaches with each other.
Five Vital Approaches To Practicing requires a donation of $10 for each session. The donation instructions are below*. If this is really going to be a strain for you, please get in touch with me and we will work something out. Donations can be sent out before the session begins. Thank you in advance!
Companion Notes will be located on frequencybone.blogspot.com. Extra notes and exercises will require a separate donation. A notification email will be sent when they are available.
Hoping to see some of you on Zoom! You are welcome to bring your horns!
Moving forward anew!
Norman
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*Here are the donation directions:
*IMPORTANT NOTE
BEFORE DONATING, MAKE SURE TO PLEASE READ THE DIRECTIONS BELOW IT SO IT IS DONE CORRECTLY. THANKS IN ADVANCE!HOW TO SIGN UP:
(Note especially #6)
1. To pay/donate, please go to:
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/vierabolter
2. You will arrive at a PayPal window with the Air-ev and Frequency Band symbols and the name Carol Viera (Dr V's name)
3. Click "SEND" option
4. Enter AMOUNT: $10
5. At the bottom of the same window is the prompt: "What's this payment for?" ENTER A NOTE about which session(s) you are attending (e.g. FBSMC 16, Train Athletic Craft, Private Lesson, or more than one)
6. **IMPORTANT!** Select left box titled "PERSONAL" (because you're not "purchasing" merchandise, which is the default option; selecting that option incurs extra fees and creates an income category error for us; we do declare these personal payments on our taxes, as we would private lessons and coachings)
7.COMPLETE TRANSACTION (make sure your transaction goes through)
