As a guitar player, our fingers dance across the fretboard and our arms, shoulders and back support our stringed instrument. It should be harmony. Yet, its easy to forget the importance of nurturing your body and mind so that you can play those melodies. Yoga for musicians, offers a symphony of benefits.
There is the physical benefits: yoga can help with flexilbity and dexterity helping as you train your fingers to navigate the strings. Yoga can help with posture discomfort in the spine, shoulders, back and neck.
Yoga also provides help with breath control and relaxation which are key for singing and to help reduce any performance nerves. With regular yoga, you can quiet the noise in your mind and let creativity flow.
Ultimately, yoga is a good tool to prevent injury from the repetitive strain of guitar playing. In essence, yoga and guitar can be partners creating beautiful beautiful music together. (yup, went the corny route). Here is a short video of some basic yoga stretches and poses that you can do to warm up –a snapshot practice to help.
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