About Feldenkrais Performers

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The Feldenkrais Method is part of widely used somatic-based pedagogues in dance, drama, and music training to enhance 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.

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.   All teachers of the Feldenkrais Method can work with performers. This website lists artists who teach the Feldenkrais Method and have have integrated the work into their performing instruction.

Peer-reviewed articles are often published through professional journals available through distributors such as JSTRO, Academia (free), Sage, Taylor and Francis, and ResearchGate. These services may only be accessible through an institution such as a university but some are free to individual or charge a subscription fee.  You can reserve books through your local library using inter-library loan services. 

All Feldenkrais Method teachers can work effectively with performers.  Artists teachers often teach the method to both performers and the general pubic and bring insight learning from their performing and teaching to how they teach the method. Likewise, performance teachers often integrate concepts of the Feldenkrais Method into their performing arts instruction.