I’m a violist and somatic coach. I’ve got a deep drive to explore  the dialogues between physiology, psychology and music and find how the interconnections shape our movements, emotional states and experience of music making.  

My own way through all this has shown me that sometimes it is just one puzzle piece missing to step into ease and joy in music making.

I stood on stages with my bow arm trembling… I stood in practice rooms thinking „Who do I think I am to even try to play this concert?“... I practiced one piece of music for weeks and months only to have memory blackouts and blocked hands at the night of the performance…

The key to freedom lies within our own minds, movements and breath patters. This work changed my life, and I have immense gratitude for the chance to accompany others in reigniting joy, lightness and a natural ease in their music making.

©Christian von Scharpen

The goals are as individual as the people I support. They all have in common the desire for more joy and mindfulness, for growth and creative self-expression.

Together with musicians, I explore how their body experience is connected to their movements on the instrument and the emotions they experience, and how this unity becomes unbalanced.