How are you listening to yourself during you practice, play and performing? Here are a few questions to consider to enhance your...

Connection + Clarity + Courage + Commitment  =  Confidence in your practice and performance. Awaken to the mystery of being here and...

Recipe and 12 Ingredients Asked My University Flute Students: What are the ingredients of a good lesson? They were to consider and use...

Just wanted to make sure y"all recieved this information. We will be using a different Etude Book this year. It is posted on the TMEA...

How is practice directly related to performance, yet performance is not the same as practice? I cast this spell: I know I can open this...

Hi! It is that time of year again for our beginnings into learning & teaching the Texas all State Etudes ! I so appreciate how we all...

Part 1 ~ Reasons 1-4 Why does deliberate, detailed, deep, mindful and musical practice at first seem like a “slow” way to practice?...

It is that time of year when the Texas Etudes have been announced and we all begin the process of teaching, practicing and learning these...

Patience: is a word we do not hear often enough these days... And, I don't mean the foot tapping, waiting, impatient kind of patience 🤣...

Greetings Dear Ones, I sent this to my students and parent today and am sharing it in case any of you are struggling with practice, with...

I love waking up, playing my flute as a journal of sound.. seeing what key to wader about in sound and just let those vibrations flow out...

3 poems... by me...~Jen Sounding Our Vibration What if The only thing I am asked in the end is… Were you truly Jennifer Shawn Keeney?...

Creative Flutist Fridays Creative Ideas, Inspiration & Information #4 September 2021 Within the Circle, there is an infinite Community of...

Creative Flutist Fridays Creative Ideas, Inspiration & Information #3 August 27th, 2021 Mental Resilience Thinking about Resilience,...

Creative Flutist Fridays Creative Ideas, Inspiration & Information #2 August 20th, 2021 GREETINGS It is audition season for back to...

Creative Flutist Fridays Creative Ideas, Inspiration & Information #1 August 13th, 2021 Summer Creative Flutist Classes ~ Hope Rising ~...

Thinking about Resilience, mental resiliency, as we start the new school year and all that we have been through in the past year... What...

TEXAS ALL-STATE ETUDES 2021 link to my All State Flute Page. Karg-Elert, A Major, Op. 107 #10 and is No. 16 in the M.K. Clardy Etude...

Your lips are vibrating membranes...~ Marcel Moyse Embouchure: Is the formation of your lips through which the river of air moves. Your...

I am especially finding that during these times having a routine helps me. When things are new and always changing a lot, so extreme,...