Music is an inherently multi-sensory, therapeutic experience. Yet for many, it's reduced to academic and commercial performance, severed from its ancient, transformative power.
What if practice was more than drills and technique – could it steady our lives, bring peace, and provide focus? Together, we integrate improvisation, deep listening, breathwork, somatic inquiry, and cross-modal creative therapies drawn from traditions that never separated music from the body or the sacred.
I design for people who are sensitive, wired differently, or who've lost their relationship to music through academic pressures, industry exploitation, and religious trauma. Sessions are shaped by each person's needs and goals.
"As a person with a hyper vigilant nervous system, it's not easy to feel safe. I want to share how sacred and safe the space you create is. There I was able to liberate myself and reach a different dimension within myself." — Stefania
More from past clients...
"Ty helped me realize that every time I played piano or sang, I dissociated and put myself under pressure to perform. Working with Ty helped crack a new world open for me, returning to music as a grounding spiritual practice. A year later, and I'm still using the weekly exercises." — Celine
"It was refreshing to approach the piano not from such a rigid place, but relationally — making contact not just with the physical instrument, but with the piano as a practice that carries its own energy. It made me feel excited to practice music. Relating with the piano somatically rather than from my mind was really beautiful and profound." — Syree
"I've been surprised how consistently this has worked for me, and it has only grown over time. I'm becoming comfortable with my true voice, feeling very embodied in my experience of making music, making sound, connecting with my breath and my true emotions in the moment. I'm very grateful for the wisdom and tools Ty gave me, and finding the freedom I've been searching for." — Wanda
For Classical, Industry, and Religious Musicians
Classical, Conservatory, and Academic Musicians
Many musicians are trained to believe they need to be 'good enough' to enjoy music and experience freedom on their instrument. I believe this is backwards, and it destroys your motivation to practice. I teach you how to reach that freedom now, and how to channel that inspiration into technical mastery.
"I came from a classical background, lost my way and stopped. I felt very stuck, and I didn't know which kind of music I liked anymore, what allows me to express myself. Here, I went into another dimension. I was able to meditate on a deep level." — Stefania
Industry Veterans and Drop-outs
From child stars to gigging musicians and film composers, the entertainment industry is often a brutal, exploitive experience. The beauty of music is that it can portal us back to our childhood self, before it became commercialized and adapted to external pressures.
"Ty helped me realize that every time I played piano or sang, I dissociated and put myself under pressure to perform. Working with Ty helped crack a new world open for me, returning to music as a grounding spiritual practice. A year later, and I'm still using the weekly exercises." — Celine
Religious, Liturgical and Worship Musicians
For many, sacred music is the first place they experience a feeling of transcendence. When these institutions fail us, it locks away those special experiences. Whether you come from a more serious devotional and liturgical lineage, or an ecstatic experience, I bring a holistic integration of musical traditions to help unlock this relationship to music again, but this time through yourself instead of depending on an outside system.
"I've been trying to unlock my voice after years of people telling me what I should sound like, of leaving my faith and deconstructing. As I was doing this practice with my guitar and voice, natural songs would just come out as I breathed and brought movement with my hands. There was an emergent sound from my body that wanted to be released. I've been surprised how consistently this has worked for me, and it has only grown over time. I'm becoming comfortable with my true voice, feeling very embodied in my experience of making music, making sound, connecting with my breath and my true emotions in the moment. I'm very grateful for the wisdom and tools Ty gave me, and finding the freedom I've been searching for." — Wanda
For Neurodivergent Children, Teens & Adults
Middle and High School
If your child struggles in school, socially, or at home, especially from highly-sensitive or neurodiverse wiring, music can be more than a skill. It can become a language for their nervous system.
These sessions use the piano as a sensory regulation practice. Rather than drilling technique for performance, we build listening, breath, and expression as tools your child can carry into the rest of their life. Visual art and somatic movement are woven in as complementary pathways when helpful.
Adults
Same foundation, adapted for adults navigating similar experiences — late diagnosis, sensory overwhelm, difficulty in conventional environments. This is music as a practice of coming home to yourself.
Approach & Techniques
| Improvisation as Meditation | Intuitive practice — training the nervous system to respond peacefully and intelligently to the unknown |
| Deep Listening | To environment, body, spirit, and self |
| Somatic Inquiry | Breath-work and body awareness through the instrument |
| Cross-Modal Work | Visual art and movement as complementary pathways |
About Ty Rex
Ty Rex is a classically-trained pianist, interdisciplinary artist, and therapeutic facilitator based in Los Angeles. Their practice began at five, intuitively improvising and meditating as self-regulation practices that continue to anchor them today in their performing and recording career spanning concert stages, collaborative recordings, and a body of solo work rooted in spiritual jazz, devotional music, and classical improvisation.
They hold a BM in Music Composition (Azusa Pacific University) and have spent nearly two decades as a collaborative pianist, music director, and improvisation teacher across churches, universities, dance companies, and K-12 performing arts programs. Early in their career they worked as a scoring assistant on major film, television, and video game productions — including Agents of SHIELD, Outlander, and God of War. Their facilitation work includes therapeutic music practice, somatic expressive arts workshops, and masterclasses in Amsterdam and Berlin.
Ty Rex's pedagogy is informed by long-term mentorships and ceremonies under indigenous (Cree, Lakota, Kānaka Maoli, Chumash, Guatemayan) and lineage-based (Franciscan, Buddhist, Hindustani-Carnatic) practitioners in somatic expressive arts, extra-sensory perception, sound medicines, and archetypal psychology. They do not directly represent or teach on behalf of those lineages.
As a queer and neurodivergent person raised in the demands of the music industry, Ty Rex brings lived experience and recovery to this work.
Note: Ty Rex is not a licensed mental health provider. This work is offered from their lifelong practice and studies, held within accountability to other practitioners and mentors.
Programs & Session Rates
Available in-studio, remotely, or at your location.
I welcome a no-commitment intro session to explore, and happily offer sliding-scale rates upon request.
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