FOR MUSICIANS, PERFORMERS, AND THE EDUCATORS WHO WORK WITH THEM
We teach the body
before the music starts.
Built from more than twenty years of experience in music teaching, performance, and professional training. Through the Alexander Technique and Body Mapping, we work with what happens in the body before anyone hears a note.
Co-Author
Body Mapping for Clarinetists, GIA 2023
Certified Sponsoring Teacher,
Alexander Technique International
Licensed Mentoring Teacher,
Association for Body Mapping Education
We know
this room.
01
The hour before a jury, when your hands do not feel like your own.
02
Giving the same correction for years and watching nothing move.
These moments are not failures of discipline or preparation. They are signs that something is happening before technique can solve it. That is the part we teach.
03
Sitting in the car after a performance that went well, waiting to feel what everyone said you should feel.
WHAT WE TEACH
Explore the Method →
Every musician walks into the room already carrying a way of being there.
We help you change how your body meets the moment, not just what it does once the performing begins.
Start where the question
is showing up.
01 - Free Session
A live introduction to the work through one familiar moment from practice, performance, or teaching.
Join a Free Session →
02 - Mapping Session
A 90-minute private session focused on a pattern in your playing, teaching, or performance that keeps returning.
mBODyed Mapping Session →
03 - The Practice
Weekly group work for musicians and educators applying the Alexander Technique and Body Mapping in real time.
The mBODYed Practice →
04 - Private Work
A structured three-month engagement for patterns that require sustained individual attention.
mBODYed Performance Coaching →
“Shawn understands the performing and academic environments from the inside. He knows the pressures faculty carry and the physical and emotional cost of sustaining excellence.”
Train to teach this work
Three modules. Real change, on your schedule, designed to fit in your professional life.
01
Foundations
Your own body, your own maps, your own movement. The work develops from you first.
02
Principles
The history. The concepts. The technique. In action.
Certification Coming September 2026
03
Mentorship
The method. The pedagogy. Your studio.
Resources
FREE SHORT BOOK
Quietly Exhausted
When Success Stops Restoring You
You may still be performing well.
The responsibilities are handled.
The work continues.
But effort may not be coming down the way it used to.
Quietly Exhausted is a short book for musicians, educators, performers, and professionals who are functioning well, but beginning to recognize the cost of how they are functioning.
Want to explore independently first?
The Somatic Archetypes offer a reflective entry point into how you organize under pressure.
Start with a free session.
Clear. Practical.
Designed for where you are