Tune Yourself
1:1 Private coaching
A tuning practice through improvisational sound
Personal, steady support held in time
Living out of tune
Can be so painful.
But you don't have to know.
You can play a different note
and listen for your song.
Not as a technique to master, but as a way of orienting to what’s actually present.
A Personal Container
Some people come to this work wanting the steadiness of a group.
Others find that what’s needed — at least for now — is a more personal, responsive container.
Private 1:1 coaching offers the Core Tune U framework, shaped around you.
The practice is grounded in listening, improvisation, and return — using sound (most often the piano) as a reliable interface for noticing what’s present and responding with choice.
This container is well‑suited for people in transition, uncertainty, or periods of quiet re‑orientation who want steady, embodied support without pressure to perform or produce outcomes.
What This Is
A listening‑based practice using improvisational sound
Customized pacing and emphasis
Regular, relational contact over several months
What This Is Not
Traditional piano instruction
Therapy or emotional catharsis
Performance coaching or productivity work
No musical experience is required.
You don’t need to know what you’re working toward.
You need only a willingness to listen and return.
“I really needed a psycho‑spiritual perspective… If you’d given me chords and exercises, it wouldn’t have worked.”
Lisa Smartt, MS, Author
The Shape of the Sessions
Private sessions take place online or in person, at a regular, agreed‑upon rhythm.
A typical session includes:
time to arrive and settle
playing on the piano (or pulse‑based work, if that’s your doorway)
reflection and integration
While we will incorporate and engaging new ways to play engaging and satisfying music on the piano, the emphasis is not on covering material or producing outcomes, but on staying with what’s present.
The structure is steady, so your attention can rest.
At the Threshold
Duration & Rhythm
Private coaching is offered in 4‑ and 6‑month packages.
This duration allows listening to stabilize through repetition — not intensity.
Most people practice briefly between sessions (often ten minutes a day).
"If you’re not playing, it’s not working."
What’s Included
All private coaching packages include:
3–4 one‑hour private sessions per month
Vibe Tribe community membership (during coaching)
Weekly optional group calls
Members‑only content
Online instructional videos
Full 30‑day money‑back guarantee
The private container gives you focused attention, while the wider field offers resonance and continuity.
How This Fits Within Tune U
Private coaching sits within the larger Tune U ecosystem and can support:
grounding and steadiness (Core orientation)
exploration and pattern recognition (Journey orientation)
long‑term integration (Quest orientation)
Rather than choosing a preset track, we shape the work around what kind of support you’re needing now.
“This brings it right to the surface… It’s a very fast way into the unconscious mind. Anything becomes possible.”
Chloe Goodchild, Vocal Improvisation Teacher & Musician
Who This Tends to Work Well For
Private coaching often resonates with people who:
are in transition or uncertainty
have done inner work and want something embodied
value discernment over forcing outcomes
want steady support without pressure to perform
feel drawn to sound as a way of listening
A Note on Fit
This may not be the right container if you’re looking for:
fast results without engagement
a purely intellectual framework
traditional piano training
certainty, answers, or bypassing discomfort
The practice rewards presence, patience, and curiosity.
Who’s Holding This Practice
I'm Daniel Barber (Two Trees), and I bring to Tune Yourself on Piano decades of experience as a professional musician, band leader, and ritual leader working in a wide range of musical, ceremonial, and community settings. I was also a musician and actor with an improvisational theater company, carrying responsibility for musical and relational space in environments that require presence, responsiveness, and care.
Alongside my musical life, my earlier work in social services, research, political activism, and nonprofit media deepened my awareness into how people navigate uncertainty, transition, and inner conflict.
In midlife, while moving through my own period of questioning and loss, I returned to the piano and discovered improvisation as a practical, embodied way to listen, choose, and move forward without requiring certainty.
I am a certified Wilderness Vision Quest Guide with the Rites of Passage Council and an ordained Jubilee! Minister of Music and Ritual.
Since 2015, I've been refining these lived experiences into Tune Yourself on Piano, a sound‑based mindfulness practice rooted in listening, improvisation, and trust.
The Next Step: A Curiosity Call
Before enrolling, we begin with a Curiosity Call — a no‑pressure conversation to explore fit, timing, and pricing options.
"You know, doctors stay in the box"
Pam (Tom's partner)
When the student's ready the teacher will appear and you were the teacher and you appeared and it could not have been a better fit for me.
Tom Parker, Physician (retired)
Choosing Your Container
All Tune U containers share the same foundational practice.
What changes is how the work is held.
| Private 1:1 Coaching | Core / Journey / Quest (Group) | |
|---|---|---|
| Attention | Fully individualized — the entire session is oriented to you | Shared field with group resonance |
| Pace | Adapted session by session | Set rhythm over time |
| Focus | What’s arising for you now | Collective themes & continuity |
| Support | Direct, relational | Peer presence + guidance |
| Best for | Transition, specificity, privacy | Steadiness, belonging, long arcs |
Pricing & Payment Rhythm
Private 1:1 coaching is offered in 4‑ and 6‑month packages, with pricing discussed on the Curiosity Call.
I keep pricing transparent and straightforward, and I’m happy to talk through different payment rhythms if that would make the work more accessible.
Choosing a container is not a promise about the future.
It’s a decision to show up within a structure that can support you now.
If finances are a concern, please feel free to name that.
We can explore what’s possible — or acknowledge when it’s not the right moment.
Closing Orientation
You don’t need to decide today.
Often, remembering — remembering what’s been quietly present for some time — is gentler than trying to choose something new.
If you’re reading this now, it may be that something in you is asking for a different kind of attention.
Not urgently.
Just honestly.
The work is steady.
The piano will wait.
And listening, when you’re ready, is always available.
This is a depth practice. If you're wanting to dive into the depths of yourself, this is the practice.
It's insanely rewarding and it's also challenging and it's also just mind boggling how, how impactful it is in such a slow, profound way.
Meg Proffitt
Over the past 11 years...
...hundreds of people have engaged this work through private sessions, long‑form programs, and group containers.
Their experiences vary, some subtle, some profound, but a consistent theme emerges: a growing capacity to listen, to choose, and to relate more honestly to themselves and their lives.
A larger collection of reflections and conversations is available for those who wish to explore further.
→ Read more reflections from participants