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Jessica Berg, Violinist and Yoga Instructor

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Education and Performance

Jessica Berg
Jessica Berg
Jessica Berg began studying Suzuki violin at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois when she was three. She studied under Kee Soon Ahn, and later, William Fuhrburg. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree from the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in 1994, she realized her true passions: music and yoga. Jessica trained as a Suzuki teacher with Sue Levine in Boulder, Colorado, and completed a three-year apprenticeship with Ellie Albers Leroux in 2005. Jessica has played with the Steamboat Springs Orchestra and the Cascade Symphony in Portland, Oregon.

Yoga and Music

Jessica discovered yoga while traveling in India in 1998, and became an avid practitioner. She is trained in the Iyengar tradition, and has been teaching adults and children since 2002. She continues her study with senior teachers Nancy Crum Stechert, Manouso Manos, Ramanand Patel and Gabriella Giubilaro.

Jessica has led numerous yoga workshops for children, including those for the Suzuki Association of the Colorado and Boulder Suzuki Strings. She enjoys teaching musicians how yoga can help them ease the physical stress of playing an instrument, and find an inner calm, which will aid them in performance and beyond.

Currently Jessica teaches violinists through Boulder Suzuki Strings and the Denver Waldorf School, and continues her yoga study with renowned senior teachers and enjoys spreading the teachings of yoga to the music community.

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