Will self-centering and breathing practices improve and promote purposeful learning in beginning ...

1. Breathing Practices

1.1. Primary Band Director Breathing Exercises

1.2. Secondary Band Director breathing exercises

1.3. Core-teacher breathing exercises

1.4. Yogi breathing practices

2. Why?

2.1. Personal Motivations

2.2. Professional Motivations

2.3. Future motivations

2.3.1. Present these practices at conferences?

3. Self-Centering Practices

3.1. Primary educator practices

3.2. Secondary educator practices

3.3. Yogi centering practices

4. Benefits

4.1. These practice benefit students outside of my classroom.

4.2. Focused rehearsals

4.2.1. Focused ensemble experience

4.3. Awareness of my own self and teaching practices

5. Wonders

5.1. Time crunch with short rehearsals

5.2. Data Collection: efficiency

5.3. Creating a productive routine of implementing these practices at the start of rehearsals.

5.3.1. What keywords can I use when instructing our warm-ups?

5.4. Students "buying" into why we are doing breathing.

5.5. Is is possible for other band directors with a time-crunch and so few rehearsals, see benefits from incorporating these techniques?

5.6. Is this worth researching?