This five-day workshop is for all instrumentalists, singers and National Summer Cello Institute participants. Its focus is to enhance awareness of the intimate relationship between the way musicians use their body and the music they create with their chosen instrument. The benefits of greater awareness are increased artistic vocabularies in performance and teaching, the ability to efficiently express musical intention, personal injury and pain prevention, and healing from current injury.

Feldenkrais for All Musicians activities help participants advance instrumental performance and injury prevention by examining the integration of body and mind through movement and providing an introduction to the Feldenkrais Method of somatic education. The Feldenkrais Method involves the use of movement, touch and imagery as tools for learning new ways of functioning. Because it improves mind-body awareness, it has proven to be highly effective in alleviating pain, anxiety, and movement difficulties. Benefits of heightened awareness include improved body image, organization and function, all relevant to performance and teaching.

The Method is based on theoretical and practical knowledge of the nervous system and its capacity to learn. It provides a process of self-discovery in a gentle and safe learning environment. Unlike a medical model that prescribes actions toward a correct state, the Feldenkrais Method leads the participant to discover his or her own solution in a non-competitive, nurturing atmosphere.

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