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Wellness

 

Wellness

Mental Wellness

Refers to your ability to manage emotions effectively, to have resilience, manage stress, deal with anxiety, and overcome negative thoughts.  This is a fluid and ever-changing process that is influenced by both internal and external factors. 

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Physical/Behavioral Wellness

Physical wellness includes staying disease-free through sleep, exercise, nutrition, and medical care, as well as making good decisions about addictive substances and receiving regular medical check-ups and screenings. 

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Academic/Learning Wellness

Involves improving successes in knowledge-acquiring activities and nurturing a passion for learning. This goes beyond academic success and incorporates time management, stress management, developing learning and studying strategies and goal setting. 

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Financial Wellness

Financial wellness is living within your means, avoiding large amounts of debt, creating and following a budget, and understanding your financial options in planning for your future.  

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Social/Emotional Wellness

Social and Emotional wellness comes from investing in people around you and building healthy relationships that support you throughout your life.  Good social habits can improve mental and physical health and help you build healthy habits. 

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Performance Wellness

This refers to your ability to perform at your best for audiences of your instructors and peers, deal with performance anxiety, time management, and many aspects of the music-learning process. This also includes injury prevention, nutrition and hydration, practice strategies, building a supportive social network inside and outside of the music building,. 

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Credentialed Wellness Contacts

Licensed Body Mapping Educator (LBME), Franklin Method Educator
 
Dr. Spencer Hartman is a Licensed Body Mapping Educator (LBME) and Franklin Method Educator. As a Licensed Body Mapping Educator, he teaches musicians how accurate anatomical knowledge improves movement and coordination. Body Mapping helps individuals understand how their bones, joints, and muscles are designed to move, reducing excess tension and preventing injury. As a Franklin Method Educator, Dr. Hartman combines anatomical education with dynamic imagery and movement. The Franklin Method trains the mind and body to work together, promoting efficient alignment, flexible movement, and better musculoskeletal balance. Together, these approaches support healthy, sustainable performance and greater physical awareness in daily life.
 
Qualified Instructor, MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction)
 
Mindfulness can be defined as “paying attention on purpose in the present moment” with non-judgmental acceptance. Angela Mariani is a professional musician and educator who has also been a practitioner of meditation for many decades. She is a Qualified Instructor of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, an evidence-based 8-week program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the UMass Medical School that combines mindfulness meditation, body awareness, and basic yoga-based movement to aid in the management of everyday stress, pain, and illness to reduce distress and foster well-being.