About Feldenkrais Performers

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The Feldenkrais Method is part of widely used somatic-based approaches or enhancing and refining performance in dance, drama, and music. It promotes healthy performance by improving body awareness and movement efficiency through structured lessons.

Instead of concentrating on specific techniques or outcomes, lessons in the Feldenkrais Method are taught in a non-directed and non-judgmental manner that allows for individual exploration and discovery. The Feldenkrais Method is not a medical practice. 

Lessons  in the Feldenkrais Method are taught verbally in classes, called Awareness  Through Movement® and through touch in individual lessons, called Functional Integration®.  Feldenkrais teachers are certified through the professional Feldenkrais Method guilds.

Yes.Feldenkrais Method teachers works well with actors, dancers, and musicians at all levels of experience.

Individual countries have professional guilds maintain websties where you can search for teachers and classes, such as the Feldenkrais Guild of North America, the Feldenkrais Guild in the United Kingdom, or the Feldenkrais Guild in Australia. Classes in the method are sometimes offered at performance schools and universities.  This website lists artists who teach the Feldenkrais Method and have have integrated the work into their performing instruction.

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All qualified Feldenkrais Method teachers can effectively work with performers. Performance teachers often incorporate concepts of the Feldenkrais Method into their performing arts instruction. They also draw on their performing experiences in how they teach the method.