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Feel Good, Sound Good: A Feldenkrais Workshop for Musicians

avec Michael Tweed-Kent

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As musicians, we want to feel good and sound good, but these two goals don’t always align. We focus on our body, but then disconnect from the music. Or we focus on the music, but then disconnect from our body. And for some of us, while performing, we disconnect from both.

In this workshop, you’ll learn to connect it all. First, you’ll clarify how you want to sound and what your instrument or voice needs to make that sound. And then, in Awareness Through Movement lessons developed specifically for musicians, you’ll explore the most comfortable and efficient ways to do it with your body.

By applying the Feldenkrais Method directly to your instrument or voice, we'll bring together body awareness, technique, self-trust and expression – so that feeling good and sounding good go hand-in-hand.

This workshop is designed for musicians of any instrument, voice and level – professional or amateur – and also for non-musician Feldenkrais practitioners or trainees who wish to deepen their work with musicians. While some lessons might appear more related to certain instruments
than others, the benefits truly apply to all – and often where we least expect. For example, a clenched hand in a singer that causes their tongue to pull back, or a clenched tongue in a violinist that causes their vibrato to tighten. Experiencing these connections will help you play and sing with your whole self.

Lesson 1 – Freeing Your Breathing

Breathing is one of the few functions we do quite well from the beginning of life. It’s only as we face the world that our breathing becomes disturbed by anxiety. We fight, flee, freeze or fawn – and this shows up in how we hold our ribs, diaphragm and pelvic floor. No matter our instrument
or voice, these patterns can intensify while we perform. We breathe too much, too little, in the wrong places or not at all. So the solution is less about learning new ways to breathe, and more about releasing old protective patterns that no longer serve us, so we can match our breathing to what our voice or instrument needs. Once we do that, fuller breathing, sound and expression come all on their own.

Lesson 2 – Supporting Your Arms

Our arms are so well designed for holding and reaching that we often over-rely on them, causing them to tighten or fatigue. But what if our arms didn’t have to carry the whole load? Fortunately, we can support and move around our instrument from anywhere in our body, especially from our pelvis. This not only makes our arms feel lighter and more elegant, it frees us to create richer, more accurate and smoother sounds too.

Lesson 3 – Releasing Your Mouth

Whether or not we use it directly on our instrument, our mouth has a profound effect on how we
feel and sound. Our oral posture shapes our overall posture. And many of us store anxiety in our jaw and tongue, so by releasing tension there, we can release tension throughout our body, to open up our sound and calm our nerves.

Lesson 4 – Sculpting Your Hands

Our hands have 27 bones each, and we tend to focus on the ones we can see. Yet the true hearts of our hands lie deep inside our palms. When we coordinate these hidden bones, our fingers become stronger and lighter, so we can play faster and cleaner. And the deeper parts of our palms root us to deeper parts of our tongue, torso and feet – with surprising effects on our posture, embouchure and voice.

Ce webinaire a lieu en direct via le logiciel de conférence en ligne "Zoom". Il comprend (également) des leçons de Prise de Conscience par le Mouvement (appelés PCM). Veuillez vous assurer d'avoir un tapis ou une couverture à disposition pour les exercices au début du cours. Un coussin plat (par exemple une serviette) est également conseillé, mais assurez-vous qu'il ne soit ni trop épais ni trop mou.

Vous pouvez participer au webinaire en utilisant un ordinateur, une tablette ou un smartphone. Il n'est pas nécessaire d'allumer votre caméra et votre microphone pour participer. Veuillez vous inscrire au webinaire en cliquant sur le bouton "S'INSCRIRE MAINTENANT".

Une fois que vous aurez payé les frais d'inscription, vous recevrez un mail de confirmation avec votre lien personnel pour participer au webinaire. Veuillez enregistrer ce lien et le garder pour votre usage personnel.

Si vous utilisez Zoom pour la première fois, il vous sera demandé d'installer le logiciel Zoom ou l'application. Ceci est préférable pour assurer le bon déroulement de la session. Veuillez prévoir 10 à 15 minutes pour l'installation du logiciel/application Zoom.