Barbara Conable
Barbara Conable grew up on a farm in central Illinois and was educated at the University of Illinois. Her books (available from GIA) are about the theory and practice of Body Mapping: How to Learn the Alexander Technique, What Every Musician Needs to Know about the Body, and The Structures and Movement of Breathing. Barbara is founder of Andover Educators (www.bodymap.org), a network of music teachers saving, securing, and enhancing musical careers with accurate information about the body in movement.
Now in retirement from teaching, Barbara is writing books on other subjects. Her new workbook (2008) How to Find Your Cooking Style, is available at www.andoverpressonline.com in three different formats and at www.Amazon.com. Look for more of her books as they are completed: Delight in Life: An Entertaining and Instructive Memoir; aMusement, a Narrative Poem about the Nine Muses; Denser than Flesh (poems); Darwin Hastings (novel); Selfhood, with life coach Michelle Kunz.
Barbara lives in Portland, Oregon, where she gardens, serves on the board of the Sabin Community Association, and enjoys being mother to grown-ups and grandmother to young ones.
Now in retirement from teaching, Barbara is writing books on other subjects. Her new workbook (2008) How to Find Your Cooking Style, is available at www.andoverpressonline.com in three different formats and at www.Amazon.com. Look for more of her books as they are completed: Delight in Life: An Entertaining and Instructive Memoir; aMusement, a Narrative Poem about the Nine Muses; Denser than Flesh (poems); Darwin Hastings (novel); Selfhood, with life coach Michelle Kunz.
Barbara lives in Portland, Oregon, where she gardens, serves on the board of the Sabin Community Association, and enjoys being mother to grown-ups and grandmother to young ones.
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