Performing Arts

Improve your performance & enhance your creativity.  

At Smart Somatics, I believe that a healthy mind-body connection is key for optimal performance unlocking your full potential. I specialize in enhancing coordination and improving the quality and range of movement, ultimately leading to an effortless posture, greater ease, and pleasure in playing and performing. The techniques also aim to relieve stress and performance anxiety, so you can focus on your craft and reach your full potential.

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Musicians, actors, dancers and performers all over the world enjoy the rich benefits that the Feldenkrais Method has to offer. Whatever your discipline or art, if you improve the quality of your movement you can improve the quality of your performance.

From improving coordination to relieving stress and anxiety, my goal is to help you feel your best both physically and mentally.  My clients have also found Feldenkrais beneficial in increasing mental clarity, enhancing learning, boosting creativity, and improving artistic expression. 

The fabulous actor Sir Michael Caine once said he was told as a young actor to “use the difficulty” in a situation.  Having the ability to do this is essential as a performer, to create art out of a nothing.  The best performers in the world do this very well, and so can you.      

I can bring you the kind of intimate connection to yourself that all artists are looking for, bring you a self-awareness practice that will transform the way you think about warming up and preparing for a performance.  Find more comfort, ease, and mastery in both your daily and artistic life and bring you a smart, creative, and fun way to figure out any artistic problem that you might face. 

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As an instrumentalist:

Are you interested in improving your hand-eye coordination while playing? Are you longing for a deeper connection between your-self and your instrument?  Are you recovering from a repetitive strain injury?

As a singer:

Are you looking for more vocal freedom to express, in words and melody, what you feel inside?  Has your “technique” only taken you so far, and now you are looking for more?

As a dancer:

Are you looking for ways to find more subtlety and grace in your movements?  Are you finding yourself in pain and experiencing frequent injuries?  Are you looking for more freedom, coordination, and more of yourself in your dancing?

As an actor:

Are you looking to connect more deeply to the inner world of your impulses, emotions, and thoughts?  Are you looking to inhabit new movements as part of developing a character?  Are your habits getting in the way?

The Feldenkrais Method is many things, above all, it is a method for learning how to learn.  Practicing Feldenkrais immerses you, through movement, in deep and personal explorations that are at once question and answer, doing and not doing, specific and totally open.  As an artist, this probably sounds familiar, because it mirrors the creative process itself. It also mirrors the process of development that you all must go through to raise you craft to the level of art.

For performing artists, the Feldenkrais Method can;

• bring you the kind of intimate connection to yourself that all artists are looking for,

• help you gain a self-awareness practice that will transform the way you think,

• aid warming up and preparing for performance,

• assist you with comfort, ease, and mastery in both your daily and artistic life,

• bring you a smart, creative, novel, and fun way to figure out any artistic problem that you might face. 

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 Learn more about how I can help you feel your best and perform at your highest level.  Elevating your performance and creativity has no limit, take your craft to the level of art and beyond.