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Teaching Mind and Body

Teaching Mind and Body

By: Kristian Svennevig
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This is a podcast about teaching, but it’s also about neuroscience, psychology and body movement as it relates to how music is taught and played. One of the many goals is to provide food for thought; to challenge current thinking, to expand horizons for furthering our understanding of how we acquire and conceptualize music. We have sought to bring a wide range of diverse perspectives from extraordinary professionals and legendary musicians from around the world. Many of whom I have personally gained enormous amounts of insight from over the years. Our goal is to provide teachers, musicians and students access to information, musical knowledge and wisdom that they might not normally have. Please join us on our exploration of better music education.

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  • episode 2: the importance of sharing information
    Jul 14 2025

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    Kristian Svennevig is joined by long time friend and colleague Dr. Sara Wandrei Langmead to discuss her backgroud and philosophy of education and why it's important to provide everyone access to information. touching on topics like why it's important to understand issues of balance and technique and why drawing on other disciplines is better for teaching.

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    53 mins
  • Teaching Mind and Body : What is this podcast all about?
    Jul 13 2025

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    Host, Kristian Svennevig, a graduate of The University of Wisconsin, Madison, draws upon the wealth of knowledge gained from 30 + years of classroom teaching as an Orchestra teacher and more than 47 years as a violinist. He also brings the education gained from study with many world renowned violinists and musicians. In addition, his significant background in neuroscience and psychology and lifelong interest in science provides a unique perspective on teaching. This episode introduces the ideas and rationale behind this podcast series. It delves into some of our current limitations of teaching as well as introduces how we can use psychology, neuroscience and body awareness along with a multidisciplinary approach to move into the next level of teaching. Although this podcast is primarily geared toward music teachers, there is considerable overlap in classroom teaching of other subjects. Therefore, many teachers might find value in the information contained in this podcast.


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    28 mins

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