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Hi there! I'm Susanna and I have a love/hate relationship with practice.


       Maybe you do too?

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Here's the good news: practice doesn't have to be painful or ho-hum!

 

I'm here to help you transform your practice into something empowered, daring & disciplined.


Something that feels good. 

Practizma (praak-TIZ-mah): a feeling of efficiency, empowerment, and joy associated with practicing music.

After years of loathing too many moments in practice, I started noticing the same trends in my students and colleagues. I wanted a solution, so in 2010, I began creating resources for efficient practicing for my studio of violinists at Virginia Commonwealth University. 

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Here's what I've learned. While we can all agree that progress is paramount, it can't be the only goal. Feeling good about our journey is important. It is not an afterthought, a byproduct, or a bonus. Joy fuels artistic growth and sustains us as human beings. 

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I am interested in cultivating "what if" practice, the kind of practice that is stimulating, daring, surprising, and deeply satisfying. I think we can make ourselves happy with practice, if done right.

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Eventually, I coined the term "Practizma" for the powerful and positive musical process I was trying to promote.

 

Practizma (praak-TIZ-mah): a feeling of efficiency, empowerment, and joy associated with practicing music.

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Then, I took all my research and wrote a practice journal called Practizma all about how to incorporate efficiency, empowerment and joy into YOUR practice.

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free download 
Ignite your practice and download the intro + 3 sample prompts from the Practizma Practice Journal!

RESOURCES
designed to empower your practice!

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Free
Practice Resources

I've got it all here for you: a blog, my practice YouTube channel and a PDF with 30 ideas on how you can add more efficiency, joy and empowerment to your practice.

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Practizma Practice Journal

Get 16 weeks of efficiency, empowerment & joy! Proven Strategies for getting more out of your practice sessions and feeling good about the musical journey.

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The
CLIPZA
app

Wish you had instant replay on something you just did? This app does just that since it's always recording! I wanted a solution to the challenge of recording, so we made one. 

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ABOUT ME

During the day I'm a professor, at night a violinist, and at twilight I'm a writer! 

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Originally from Stuttgart, Germany, I have enjoyed a varied career as a violinist, educator, author, speaker and researcher on the East Coast.

 

I study practice psychology and how technology enhances practice. And the big news: I'm currently in the middle of writing a book on the psychology of practice (gulp). 


I'm the author of the Practizma Practice Journal, the co-creator of the Clipza app (so you can take better video when you practice), and the Associate Professor of Violin and Coordinator of strings at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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"All the workshops were awesome. I couldn't have asked for more. The students loved it."

@practizma on Instagram

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