Come to a Weekly Feldenkrais Method session to work on freeing up your playing or singing. Feldenkrais is a holistic sensory-motor learning system, which looks at our mind and body holistically. In focussing on our awareness (through movement) we tap into our brain’s way of organic learning.

In these practical weekly sessions we look at:

• How your whole body supports your technique.

• Developing your self-awareness so you can feel what you’re doing more easily.

• Learn to sense yourself from the inside out.

• Discover skeletal movement and structure, and how to use it to better support your hands, shoulders, breath, voice and head.

You’ll learn to:

• Refine your sensitivity to how you are moving

• Reduce the effort & excess muscular tension

• Find more effortlessness, and reduction of pain when playing.

• Work with your body not against it.

• Improve your self image, (both physically and mentally)

• Learn new options for greater freedom of movement.

If we improve how we’re moving: supporting and creating the movements we need to play, the end result also improves.

We’ll be looking at different functional movements each week, making our way around the body over the course of the sessions. These sessions are for all, whether you’ve been to a session before or not. The content of each session changes week to week.

Monthly Themes:

Oct: Embodied playing: Sensing your whole self to reduce effort and tension

Nov: Avoiding Injury

Dec: Learning, teaching with anatomy in mind.

Places are limited so it's recommended that you reserve yours in advance.

Before the session starts:

- Have a mat for the workshop

- Wear comfortable clothes

- Bring your instruments to the session.

- Play/sing a little before and after the session

The Zoom link will be sent the day before the event. If you have any questions about the workshop please contact education@themu.org

Emma Alter is both professional classical musician and Feldenkrais teacher. She brings a wealth of experience with her: understanding the pressures of standing in front of an audience and performing at the highest level, whatever the situation, complexities of playing an instrument, and how the body can get in the way of performing to our optimum. She has helped musicians with postural issues, restricted movement, chronic tension (including back pain and RSI ), or simply to find more efficient ways to play more easily.

Accessibility

The MU makes every effort to ensure that all events we organise are accessible to everyone who would like to attend. We want to provide equal access to our events for all our members. If you have any access requirements you would like us to be aware of, please contact teachers@themu.org at least 1 week ahead of the event to discuss what you need.

Weekly Online Session: Feldenkrais