Sarah Swersey > >

Sarah has been playing flute since she was 9 years old, and over the years has studied with the likes of Robert Willoughby and Thomas Nyfenger. Since receiving her master’s degree at Yale University School of Music, she has taught in Europe and the eastern United States. Currently, she is a member of the faculty of the Northampton Community Music Center. To inquire about private lessons in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, click here.

Sarah also teaches musical improvisation. Introduced to free improvisation by innovative cellist David Darling and his Music for People organization, she has gone on to become a certified facilitator of MfP-style improvisation. Sarah has offered her workshop, “No Wrong Notes,” to students at conservatories and music camps in the eastern United States. To inquire about bringing “ No Wrong Notes” to your institute, click here.

Trained and certified as a yoga teacher in 1997 at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts, and having gone on to train extensively in Anusara Yoga, Sarah has taught privately and at centers in New York, Boston, and, most recently, Northampton. To inquire about private lessons, click here.

Conservatory students who have attended “The Flexible Flutist,” the yoga-for-musicians workshop that Sarah created and has facilitated at universities and other venues around the country, have been astounded by the before and after. That is, the difference in their playing – the sound of their instrument, the feeling in their bodies – after an hour of yoga. Sarah isolates the stretches, postures, and breathing exercises that address the particular needs of musicians, and sends students home with a handbook aimed at helping make the changes they feel be long-lasting. To inquire about bringing “The Flexible Flutist” to your town, click here.