Muse Muscle Method is a comprehensive set of exercises and techniques developed specifically for musicians to improve their health and prevent performance-related injuries. This method, developed by musicians and injury-prevention experts, provides over 150 off-instrument exercises and complementary techniques to improve fine and gross motor skills, develop kinesthetic sense, and promote fluid, tension-free movements during music performance. It also teaches musicians how to use their entire body, rather than just their hands and wrists, lowering the risk of overuse in small muscle groups. Using these exercises and techniques can help musicians improve their strength, speed, endurance, and independence, leading to a long-lasting and injury-free career.
Key features that set Muse Muscle apart from other methods, approaches, and techniques include:
a. Off-instrument exercises specifically designed to address the unique needs of musicians.
b. Personalized practice schedules tailored to factors such as instrument type, personal background, daily habits, and lifestyle, as well as the performer's age, gender, size, muscle tone, mental condition, injuries, and diet.
c. Complementary techniques and innovative concepts, including mirrored instruments, tapes, and weights.
Muse Muscle is a lifestyle that is strongly recommended for musicians of any age or level who desire to explore their full potential and experience an injury-free career.
Starting at $60 per session
If you are interested in discussing how Muse Muscle might help you, please email yseif.music@gmail.com to set up a free 20 minute virtual consultation
Register for more and receive a discount!
Register for 4 at $55/session
(total due $220)
Register for 10 at $50/session (total due $500)
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Eddy Malave
Professor of the Alexander Technique at NYU Steinhardt, Viola player
My lesson with Muse Muscle offered a deeply transformative somatic experience. Through guided movements, breathwork, and mindfulness, I learned to connect with my body on a profound level, releasing tension and discovering new ease in my movements helping me cultivate awareness, balance, and physical alignment. A highly recommended experience to explore!
Yasaman Seif is a cellist, educator, and musician's health researcher. She earned her master's degree in cello performance at the University of Central Oklahoma under Tess Remy-Schumacher, where she received numerous scholarships, awards, and honors for her school activities, as well as the teaching assistant position in the School of Music. She also studied baroque cello under Meryl Geib.
As an educator, Yasaman is a member of the American String Teachers Association and has given a speech at the 2024 ASTA National Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. She has over seven years of teaching experience and has worked with students of various ages and backgrounds. What distinguishes her teaching from others is her unique knowledge of anatomy and injury prevention, which has always shortened her students' learning curves and helped them build a long-term career.
Yasaman is a researcher and the string specialist on the Muse Muscle research team, which is developing a new method for preventing musicians' injuries. She has presented this method at the 2024 ASTA National Conference, Wake Up and Smell the Rossin, and Miss Ani's Winter Cello Festival. She has also been featured in the Grossman Newsletter. Due to her activities in this domain, Yasaman is a member of the Association for Body Mapping Education (ABME).
During the pandemic, she and her husband ran a live stream about musicians' health and the prevention of performance-related injuries, and they hosted many well-known figures in the domain to raise awareness and inform musicians, particularly the younger generation, about the possibility of these career-ending issues and effective ways to prevent them.