How Pelvic Floor Exercises Change the Way You Play the Violin
Podcast
Thinking Out Loud – with Susanne Berendes
About the Person
Susanne Berendes
Susanne Berendes, 61, is a professional violinist and CANTIENICA® instructor. She plays in an orchestra, teaches movement theory to aspiring music educators at the Kassel Music Academy (Louis Spohr Academy), and works with musicians who play a wide variety of instruments.
Her journey to the CANTIENICA® method began after the birth of her second daughter—triggered by pelvic floor prolapse and physical overexertion. She discovered the CANTIENICA® Method through a book and only realized, as she progressed through her own training, just how profoundly it affects musicians in particular: helping with stage fright, shoulder pain, psoas tension, breathing problems, and chronic postural imbalance.
Today, Susanne combines her decades of stage experience with precise physical work—practical, honest, and with great respect for artistic reality.
Podcast Topic
My body is my true instrument
Susanne Berendes talks with Benita Cantieni about
- Common postural mistakes that are supposedly part of playing the instrument
- the fear of changes in one’s own actions
- The Magic of Cantian Breathing Journeys
- Letting go, which comes through stability and upright posture
- Implementing new habits in a demanding daily routine
- the joy of playing that comes from a pain-free body
