READY TO
LOVE PERFORMING?
WHAT IF YOU COULDN’T WAIT
TO GET ON STAGE?
Do you want to feel confident about your practice room efficiency, joyful about your playing, and absolutely secure on stage?
Cutting-edge, proven resources and neurologically-aligned, mindful support for every stage of learning and performance.
SPARK means:
Sound, Performance, Attuned Intonation, Rhythm, and Kinetic Integration.
SPARK Learning: A better quality of neurologically-aligned information.
SPARK Integration: Building confidence to trust your system to store, organize, and replenish
SPARK Interpretation: Confident, Resonant Authenticity onstage
SPARK Action: Your Daily Practice. Gotta practice the practice!
SPARK Community: Connecting with other curious and motivated learners, teachers, & performers striving for Healthy Musical Excellence
SPARK Teachers: Passionate teachers that want to share the joy of playing and inspire the next generation of musicians with a flexible framework that supports their teaching while striving for healthy musical enjoyment and excellence
Welcome to SPARK Practice, the neurologically-aligned
Intentional Practice System for healthy, mindful performance excellence.
Sign up below to receive your GET STARTED GUIDE with the Daily Practice Journal Page.
“Cutting-edge stuff… the tie between sports & performance psychology, and cutting-edge neuroscience.”
Dr. Don Greene
Author & Peak Performance Coach (Watch Here)
At SPARK Practice, we help professional musicians master Intentional Practice
Perform with passion.
Healthy performance excellence starts with nervous system regulation to feel safe to create bravely on stage. Learn your own stress profile and unique stress antidote, with strategies and support that you can put into action today. You’re on your way to looking forward to performing again.
Performance success starts in the practice room, and great practice starts with Intention, Positive Emotional Signatures & Deliberate Practice.
Practice with Confidence.
SPARK Practice, the Intentional Practice System, is the neurologically-aligned framework with a collaborative library of expert strategies for mindful peak performance. Based in neuroscience, elite sports, top musical training, and mindfulness, SPARK Practice is the future of mindful performance excellence.
SPARK Practice combines neuroscience, sports psychology, elite musical training, and mindfulness practices to achieve artistic excellence and consistent confidence on stage.
Play with Joy.
Based in neuroscience, elite sports, top musical training, and mindfulness, join your own practice space and SPARK Practice Timer to enhance and infuse your personal practice with joy. Find meditations, practice inspiration, and the collaborative library of practice strategies to bring fun back into your playing.
SPARK Practice is a flexible system / framework that supports a variety of learning and professional environments, while building artistic autonomy and neurological safety.
Love to Learn.
SPARK Practice is compatible with your teacher, and any method / technique books you’re already learning. It’s designed to support your learning and practice efficiency, autonomously or with a teacher / mentor.
Turn I WISH into I DID IT! 🚀
Get ready for a new way to practice with SPARK Practice and become a better musician every time you touch your instrument. Get news, invitations, & motivation delivered to your inbox.
CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE IN TOP PERFORMANCE
SPARK Practice is based in neuroscience, elite sports, top musical training, and mindfulness. Staying on the forefront of elite performance psychology and learning, SPARK Practice is a proven, flexible system for excellence in high-stress performance.
SPARK PRACTICE THEORY INTO EASY ACTION
Centered around the 5 SPARK Practice Pillars, SPARK Practice is above all a practical, flexible system to keep you moving toward your goals. Use the 5 Pillars, the Practice Timer, and the SPARK Practice Journal in the best way that works for you.
GAIN CONFIDENCE WITH INTENTIONAL PRACTICE
Intentional Practice is like Deliberate Practice but with two supercharged elements : Intention, and Positive Emotional Signatures. Truly efficient practice and practice room confidence leans into these supercharged techniques that help learning and integration.
I'm changing the conversation about practicing and performing for professional and pre-professional musicians, and bringing nervous system regulation to the general public.
I’m a neuro-divergent, pho-loving, recovering perfectionist, and active violist based in Paris, France. I‘m a former Division-1 scholarship rower with multiple auto-immune challenges, titanium plates/screwes, and a passion for holding space for people to find (& feel) their awesomeness.
Decades of research and my own experiences brought neuroscience, elite sports, top musical training, and mindfulness together into SPARK Practice: a neurologically-aligned framework with expert strategies for mindful performance excellence and gentle self-regulation with Nervous System Neutral.
I‘m so grateful that you’re here and ready to find your spark. Welcome to the party!
Write & say hi!“⚡️SPARK Practice is effective, practical, and, therefore, motivating!
Spark Practice gets results 100% of the time, and I love to use it in my own practice and with my students!”
Daina Staggs
Violinist & Suzuki Association of the Americas teacher, Texas USA
"Sarah is a one-in-a-million teacher. She is incredibly knowledgeable, uniquely effective, and has an effortless sense of humor that makes self-examination significantly more fun!
Worth every minute and every dollar spent, and then some! Cannot recommend her more highly."
Margee
Screenwriter, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hey friend! Let me help you:
LEVEL UP YOUR LEARNING.
LEVEL UP YOUR SELF TALK.
LEVEL UP YOUR CONFIDENCE.
LOVE PERFORMING AGAIN.
Cutting-edge, proven resources and neurologically-aligned, mindful support for every stage of learning and performance.
Mindful performance excellence starts with SPARK Practice, the Intentional Practice System.
CLASSES / WORKSHOPS
Classes available for players, teachers, students, and schools.
THE PRACTICE ROOM
Loving playing & performing starts with a supportive, intentional, mindful environment with as much or as little support as you need.
Join the Practice Room
LEARN
SPARK
PRACTICE
Online Classes, Residencies, & Intensives, & Nervous System Neutral
SPARK Practice Classes count towards continued Teacher Training for Suzuki Association of the Americas (SAA)
THE PRACTICE ROOM
The Practice Room, the original supportive online community of musicians - for as much or as little support as you need
Come together with like-minded musicians in a supportive community for gentle, mindful activities and support, parallel play & workspaces, performance practice opportunities, workshops, and more.
DAILY PRACTICE & Practice LAB
Welcome to your own personal Practice Room
Here’s your HQ for planning, brain dumps, motivation, & play. This is your safe space to experiment, train, & explore (cue epic movie training sequence).
"⚡️SPARK Practice is brilliant! The system has helped both me & my students become more efficient practicers & more secure performers.
It can be applied at every ability level & the results are tangible!"
Gwendolyn Cawdron
Associate Principal Viola, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
“I would highly recommend working with Sarah if you are looking to make serious changes in your mindset, creativity or just your general mental sense of wellbeing. Sarah is an intelligent, thoughtful, helpful and educational leader and I will absolutely be participating in Sarah’s next group!"”
