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Beginning - 07 Jun 2025

Play Pain-free for a Lifetime

Description

In this workshop you’ll learn how to play without stress, and explore relaxed techniques while keeping your hands and body healthy. Every harpist can prevent and correct discomfort related to playing any size of harp. We will explore best ways to sit with your harp (based on your body type and your individual harp), what playing techniques work for your own hands, how to avoid repetitive motion syndromes, how to produce the best tone and accuracy with the least effort, and so much more!
This is not about those “correct” postures or “correct” techniques that have caused pain for so many harpists, but about pain-free and effective ways to play pain-free for a lifetime.

This workshop is included in the Spring 2025 Workshop Series.

You can enroll in individual workshops for €25 each, or the full series of six-workshops at the early-bird price of €99 (€130 after 26 April, 2025).

Course Duration

1 Sessions

Level

All

Class Time

5:30–6:45 pm (Irish time)

Tutor(s)

Price

€25.00

Saturday | 5:30–6:45 pm (Irish time)

07 Jun

Session 1

Play Pain-free for a Lifetime

In this workshop you’ll learn how to play without stress, and explore relaxed techniques while keeping your hands and body healthy. Every harpist can prevent and correct discomfort related to playing any size of harp. We will explore best ways to sit with your harp (based on your body type and your individual harp), what playing techniques work for your own hands, how to avoid repetitive motion syndromes, how to produce the best tone and accuracy with the least effort, and so much more!

This is not about those “correct” postures or “correct” techniques that have caused pain for so many harpists, but about pain-free and effective ways to play pain-free for a lifetime.

What to Expect

In this workshop, students will —

  • learn how to play without stress, and explore relaxed techniques while keeping your hands and body healthy

Technical Requirements

  • A laptop, desktop or tablet computer; we do not recommend using a phone to participate
  • Speakers or headphones
  • Access to a printer for downloadable course materials
  • Access to the Zoom platform; further information to help you get set up for participating over Zoom will be sent after you have registered

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