The Feldenkrais Method® is often beneficial for musicians: they can use the method to enhance their playing by focusing on improved body awareness, coordination, and overall movement efficiency. By exploring different movement patterns, musicians may discover ways to reduce tension, prevent repetitive strain injuries, and enhance their instrumental or vocal performance.
The Feldenkrais Method® can be particularly useful for addressing issues related to posture, breathing, and muscle tension that musicians may encounter. The method encourages a mindful exploration of movement, helping musicians to refine their technique and discover more comfortable and effective ways of playing.
Like musicians, many singers incorporate Feldenkrais into their training regimen to complement traditional vocal techniques. Working with a certified Feldenkrais practitioner allows for a personalized approach, addressing specific challenges and goals related to singing.
The Feldenkrais Method® is specially orientated towards exploring the body as an instrument, with all its capabilities and possibilities. In a way we can consider our voice as an instrument... first we need to adjust and “tune” the entire body before starting to play. And the we can explore the way we handle our “instrument” while we are using it to make the music coming from our mouth.
With the Feldenkrais Method® we learn to appreciate the complex, subtle interactions within the body, refining the balance between “doing on purpose” and “letting happen”, discovering the variety of breathing possibilities and experiencing our posture as a dynamic support system for the action that we are making.
The Feldenkrais Method® teaches the singer a more efficient and effective way of using the voice by using an efficient and effective posture allowing her/him to be confident and free during the entire process and helping to keep the power and the extension of the voice for long time.