Timani
- move better to play better
Timani is designed to help musicians understand and overcome challenges related to pain, injury, technical issues, sound production or even just to enhance once playing to access higher potential as a musician. By focusing on the physiological aspects of playing, it enables musicians to make the best use of their body while practising and performing. It is used by musicians worldwide – from soloists to entire ensembles, and from students to established professionals – whether they have already experienced performance-related pain or injury or want to prevent them arising in the first place. Timani is also becoming increasingly popular in schools and colleges, taught by an ever-increasing network of teachers in fifteen countries who are inspired to pass on its benefits to musicians everywhere.
“Timani provides a whole new awareness when it comes to exactly what we need with regard to the requirements of musicians. I am happy that I found something as specialized as this.”
– Leif Ove Andsnes, pianist
The Essentials of Timani
Singing or playing an instrument requires
complex, coordinated, and refined use of more
than 600 muscles in your body. Timani helps you
to understand your own anatomy and the
relationship between your brain, body, and voice
or instrument. It’s designed to improve the way
you stand, sit, breathe, and move using
individually customised exercises that offer the following benefits:
Musicality – enhancing technique, sound, timing, and creating more natural phrasing Coordination –understanding the coordination needed to sing or play your
instrument effortlessly
Health – knowing how you use your body to minimise the risk of performance- related injury or pain caused by misalignment and compensatory muscular patterns
Confidence –understanding the relationship between body and mind, which creates positive psychological effects and improves focus in the practice room and on stage
Potential –reaching your full potential as a musician by acquiring tools that will enable you to express yourself without being compromised by physical limitations
Tina Offers Workshops, Master Classes, and Individual Sessions
For individuals and ensembles, Timani has shown to be a very useful tool to feel and perform the music with greater precision and expression in a healthy way. It can provide a possibility for the musicians to tune more into the music by changing the physical coordination and playing or singing with less strain.
Timani sessions are done as master classes, workshops or individual lessions. When receiving a Timani lesson or workshop, the musician will experience the following:
In the lessons and workshops, one will deepen one’s knowledge about the anatomy behind the exercises and gain insight into how this understanding influences the practical part of the course.
Tina Margareta Nilssen
Tina is the founder of the Musicians’ Health and Movement Institute (MHMI), the author of "Unleashing the potential of the musician's body" and the creator of the movement system Timani, which develops a deep understanding of the body to support musical technique and performance. At the MHMI she runs a 3-year part-time certification program for professional musicians, training them to
become Timani teachers and how to implement the knowledge in their own playing. Since 2007 she has taught Timani to thousands of musicians from all over the world, everything from orchestras, chamber music groups, students and soloists.
Tina’s background in anatomy and movement comes from her studies as a Massage Therapist, Personal trainer (Norwegian Sports Academy), Kinetic Control Movement Therapist and twice a certified yoga teacher (200 and 300 hours), psychosomatic bodyworker, and mental coach.
As a pianist, she holds a MA from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo (Prof. Jens Harald Bratlie) and has performed solo and duet recitals in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, England, USA, Moscow, Italy, New York, and Philadelphia amongst other. She has released four critically acclaimed CDs and has received a number of grants and awards, including the two-year Norwegian artists’ working grant from the Norwegian Arts Council, Jansons Fund, RWE-Dea, and the Norwegian Fund for Performing Artists.
“It is her exquisite and perfectly measured playing that produces such a sense of detached time and space. Her playing is effortless, masterful and lush. It’s easy to get lost in the notes and forget all about the troubles in the world.”
The Vinyl Anachronist, Marc Phillips, New York, 16. February 2018
Contact Tina Margareta Nilssen:
[email protected] I www.unleashingthepotential.com
- move better to play better
Timani is designed to help musicians understand and overcome challenges related to pain, injury, technical issues, sound production or even just to enhance once playing to access higher potential as a musician. By focusing on the physiological aspects of playing, it enables musicians to make the best use of their body while practising and performing. It is used by musicians worldwide – from soloists to entire ensembles, and from students to established professionals – whether they have already experienced performance-related pain or injury or want to prevent them arising in the first place. Timani is also becoming increasingly popular in schools and colleges, taught by an ever-increasing network of teachers in fifteen countries who are inspired to pass on its benefits to musicians everywhere.
“Timani provides a whole new awareness when it comes to exactly what we need with regard to the requirements of musicians. I am happy that I found something as specialized as this.”
– Leif Ove Andsnes, pianist
The Essentials of Timani
Singing or playing an instrument requires
complex, coordinated, and refined use of more
than 600 muscles in your body. Timani helps you
to understand your own anatomy and the
relationship between your brain, body, and voice
or instrument. It’s designed to improve the way
you stand, sit, breathe, and move using
individually customised exercises that offer the following benefits:
Musicality – enhancing technique, sound, timing, and creating more natural phrasing Coordination –understanding the coordination needed to sing or play your
instrument effortlessly
Health – knowing how you use your body to minimise the risk of performance- related injury or pain caused by misalignment and compensatory muscular patterns
Confidence –understanding the relationship between body and mind, which creates positive psychological effects and improves focus in the practice room and on stage
Potential –reaching your full potential as a musician by acquiring tools that will enable you to express yourself without being compromised by physical limitations
Tina Offers Workshops, Master Classes, and Individual Sessions
For individuals and ensembles, Timani has shown to be a very useful tool to feel and perform the music with greater precision and expression in a healthy way. It can provide a possibility for the musicians to tune more into the music by changing the physical coordination and playing or singing with less strain.
Timani sessions are done as master classes, workshops or individual lessions. When receiving a Timani lesson or workshop, the musician will experience the following:
In the lessons and workshops, one will deepen one’s knowledge about the anatomy behind the exercises and gain insight into how this understanding influences the practical part of the course.
Tina Margareta Nilssen
- - A simple anatomical analysis of ones playing or what to look for in general
- - Targeted exercises to access some new muscles and expand the movement options
while playing - - Implementation of the exercise while playing or singing
Tina is the founder of the Musicians’ Health and Movement Institute (MHMI), the author of "Unleashing the potential of the musician's body" and the creator of the movement system Timani, which develops a deep understanding of the body to support musical technique and performance. At the MHMI she runs a 3-year part-time certification program for professional musicians, training them to
become Timani teachers and how to implement the knowledge in their own playing. Since 2007 she has taught Timani to thousands of musicians from all over the world, everything from orchestras, chamber music groups, students and soloists.
Tina’s background in anatomy and movement comes from her studies as a Massage Therapist, Personal trainer (Norwegian Sports Academy), Kinetic Control Movement Therapist and twice a certified yoga teacher (200 and 300 hours), psychosomatic bodyworker, and mental coach.
As a pianist, she holds a MA from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo (Prof. Jens Harald Bratlie) and has performed solo and duet recitals in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, England, USA, Moscow, Italy, New York, and Philadelphia amongst other. She has released four critically acclaimed CDs and has received a number of grants and awards, including the two-year Norwegian artists’ working grant from the Norwegian Arts Council, Jansons Fund, RWE-Dea, and the Norwegian Fund for Performing Artists.
“It is her exquisite and perfectly measured playing that produces such a sense of detached time and space. Her playing is effortless, masterful and lush. It’s easy to get lost in the notes and forget all about the troubles in the world.”
The Vinyl Anachronist, Marc Phillips, New York, 16. February 2018
Contact Tina Margareta Nilssen:
[email protected] I www.unleashingthepotential.com