I asked AOTOS member Anne-Marie Czajkowski to share her expertise on mindfulness for us here as many of us work out how to move our teaching forward or whether to bother and work out the implications. Mindfulness for Singers I’ve recently completed my PhD studying the effects of mindfulness on singers. I’ve run several studies teaching mindfulness to singing students which complement their normal singing tuition and the results have been overwhelmingly positive. Participants found doing 10 mins mindfulness before singing lessons, practice and performances helped them to learn singing technique more deeply, develop more efficient and effective practice, helped them with performance anxiety, and brought them into the present moment on stage allowing them to be more creative and responsive. Anyone who has seen my FB posts knows that I’ve found teaching online really tough over the past week. I’ve felt quite stressed that I wouldn’t be good enou...