I have posted a short breathing course up on my YouTube channel, with the theme of breathing for better physical health and emotional well-being. These are the practices I encourage people to perform on a daily or near-daily basis. I…
Category: Potent Voice
“Human sense organs can receive only news of difference, and the differences must be coded into events in time (i.e., into changes) in order to be perceptible. Ordinary static differences that remain constant for more than a few seconds become perceptible only by scanning. Similarly, very…
Despite a lot of propaganda to the contrary, singers are not special – anyone can sing, and if someone can sing better than you can then they have probably simply done a lot more purposeful singing practice than you have. …
Your Potent Self It is always a joy for me to connect with a new Feldenkrais student who understands that there is more to the Method than simply learning how to move ‘better’. I have been asked what a good…
“Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.” Moshe Feldenkrais; Embodied Wisdom–Collected Papers, 2010 We are formed by an alliance of many, many cells; “a cooperative community…
Interwoven throughout this course introduction are videos from Alexandra Beller’s dance company, exploring how babies move, led by her child, Ivo. These films are lovely; joyful and inspiring, and very like the movement sequences I teach in my classes every…
I regularly teach breathing-focussed workshops and classes – both as a Feldenkrais teacher and as a voice teacher – and this information is always an important aspect of better vocal health and function, but more than that it is important for our…
My voice work has been through many incarnations. When I first qualified as an Awareness Through Movement teacher and began to actually teach singing classes for the first time, I didn’t feel I had a lot of material from Feldenkrais that…
At first glance the Feldenkrais Method can seem to be entirely aimed at helping our students to move better, with more ease and grace. In fact it is intended to be a tool for facilitating change in our lives; for…
According to Gautama Buddha himself: “There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And…