Lessons From Injury, Healing, and Re-Embodiment

Playing piano is a rare blend of the mental, the emotional and the physical. It is easy enough to appreciate the mental and emotional sides when listening to a good pianist, but people don’t always realize just how physical it is, or how much of the body is involved in high-level piano playing.

Sometimes pianists learn this the hard way, like I did, by getting injured. I developed tendonitis in my early 20’s and had to totally reevaluate my physical approach to the piano.