The Moving Brain: Feldenkrais in London

I’m giving two workshops on the 22nd and 23rd August, open for the general public, hosted by the Musician’s Union! In London on the 22nd August, 2-4.30 pm https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/news/events/london-introduction-to-feldenkrais-for-musicians-with-emma-a and Birmingham on Tuesday 23rd August, again, 2-4.30 https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/news/events/birmingham-introduction-to-feldenkrais-for-musicians-with-em £5 for MU members, £8 for other Trade Union members, and £10 for general public. Please do come along, I’d love to see you there. Contact me for more details.

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A little over a year ago, I gave two workshops at the Royal College of Music, after which the players filled in a questionnaire. I was hoping to do more, so I could produce a longer article, but here it is so far: The workshop took three parts- starting with a classic lesson on flexors and extensors; a central exploratory more hands on session, working in pairs whilst playing; ending with a lesson whose themes were co-ordination of head, eyes, trunk movements.  […]

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Sometimes, it’s not what you’re doing, its who you’re doing it to. I was up visiting my sister and her family, and talking with my brother-in-law who’s a GP about studies. We were talking about how I might be able to, in time, get some studies going with Feldenkrais in order to faciliate it being offered on the NHS (one should think big right?). Anyway, I had 40 minutes before getting my train, and I offered to show him (my […]

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I started working with a colleague recently. (We’ll call him David. Names changed for obvious privacy purposes) One of his concerns was shoulder and neck pain after working at the computer. He’d had problems with a frozen shoulder before, and wanted some help with his set up at the computer. After looking at how David sat at, and used the computer, I was able to make some suggestions of things he could try to make life easier. After two weeks he is […]

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