make practicing your instrument self-care.
reconnect. rejuvenate. resonate.
what is meditative improvisation?
In a traditional guided meditation, the instructor cues breaths, body awareness, and calming imagery. With Resonate, you just add music! As you play your instrument, you breathe, become grounded in your body, and develop skills of mindfulness.
what if I don’t know how to improvise?
That’s okay! Resonate is designed for classical musicians with little to no experience with improvisation. Each video has:
enough structure to be approachable
enough freedom to encourage your unique creativity
endless repeatability for whatever mindset or “level” you are at today.
each resonate collection includes
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Each warm up video helps you incorporate meditative techniques such as body scans, guided breathing, and nonjudgemental thinking into your practice from the start.
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The practice break videos give you mental space to ground yourself, rejuvenate your mindset, and come back to your body. You will return to your practice session feeling fresh and playful.
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Maybe you want to explore developing your improvisatory voice more. These videos provide starting points to jumpstart your creativity and break down the feeling of “writers block” that often happens when you approach your instrument with no written music.
made for musicians by musicians.
Resonate was founded as a solution to the struggles we ourselves experienced in musical academia.
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A pianist, educator, musicologist, and writer from South Carolina, Grace Odell has masters degrees from the University of Missouri Kansas City in both piano performance and musicology. Prior to moving to Kansas City, Grace received a bachelor's degree in piano performance from Furman University.
Grace’s love-hate relationship with academia and her struggles with perfectionism led her to create Resonate, a tool for re-accessing the child-like wonder and joy that initially led her to the piano. When she’s not playing piano or teaching piano, she’s visiting the art museum with her husband and son, cuddling with her two cats, or reading.
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Šárka Stehnová, D.M.A. (University of
Nebraska – Lincoln), is a bilingual pianist and collaborator with roots in the Czech Republic and Vietnam, and an educator with teaching experience in both Europe and the US.Stehnová received her artist diploma from the Conservatory in Teplice (Czech Republic), where she studied with a Czech leading educator focusing on natural pianistic body movements, Mgr. Hana Turková. Her Bachelor of Music Education degree is from Northern State University, South Dakota and her Master’s degree is in piano performance from University of Missouri – Kansas City. In the summer of 2019, Stehnová was invited to tour in Czech Republic in six different cities including the capital city of Prague. From 2021, she has been a member of Trio Dulcis Disputatio.