Get Your Act Together with Feldenkrais®!

Explore a Feldenkrais movement lesson that uses a triangle arms pose to tilt and twist the spine, notice floor contact, breathe, and cultivate effortless poise.

Lift the inner and outer edges of the feet to improve balance, awaken the arches, and coordinate subtle fibula and hip rotations for a steadier base in standing and walking.

Explore embodying characters through physical impediments and movement constraints, grounding storytelling with the Meisner technique, and opening up non-habitual options for acting.

Explore movement and gesturing through Feldenkrais techniques in rolling fists, improving posture, shoulder blade awareness, and the connection from floor to standing with breath.

Use stage space with purpose, moving between three focal points—past, present, future—or staying still to focus attention. Develop holistic gestures that convey meaning from head to toe.

Explore subtle, mindful jaw and lip movements to increase awareness of the temporomandibular joint, neck tension, and facial expressiveness through gentle guided touch and breathing.

Practice eye movements from near to far horizons, exploring dominant and non-dominant eyes, and shifting gaze between thumb, wall, and infinity to improve posture and ease.

Learn six Feldenkrais principles: awareness, playfulness, curiosity, effortlessness, spontaneity, and novelty to accelerate learning by aligning intention with action and finding three options.

Explore seven components of voice work: pitch, volume, tempo, emphasis, tone, fluency, and pronunciation. Practice these categories separately and integrate them with Feldenkrais methods to boost clarity, variety, and speaking.

Explore pitch as a vocal component by practicing highs and lows to add expression and approachability. Use playful drills and varied sentences to clarify meaning and engage listeners.

Learn to vary vocal volume to boost expressiveness and clarity while protecting your voice, and practice delivering to different room sizes and audiences.

Learn to use tempo to bring variety and clarity to your speech by balancing steady pace with moments to speed up or slow down, practicing with texts from the booklet.

Explore emphasis to boost clarity and interest in speaking. Practice selecting which word to emphasize to define a sentence’s meaning and refine your delivery with examples.

Explore tone as a link between emotion and voice, building a character’s intention through physical facial expressions and the Feldenkrais method to clarify speech and gesture.

Explore voice fluency through legato and staccato, learn to release air evenly, and practice effortless consonants to improve speaking and singing smoothness.

Master pronunciation techniques in this lesson, including unvoiced vs voiced consonants, final consonants, glottal attacks, nasal vowels, vowels and diphthongs, and ipa-guided practice.

Explore authenticity as you expand your sense of self, discovering new postures, voice options, and pronunciation to express yourself more clearly and be understood by more people.

Explore Feldenkrais movement to weld your skeleton from the inside using breath, pressure through the rib cage, and guided pelvis lifts to build a three dimensional body awareness.

Apply specificity to emotional preparation before stepping on stage by writing what makes you sad or happy. Let an imaginary scene partner influence you and then release the emotion.

Explore the bell hand movement with the five fingertips to gently roll between the right and left sides, using floor contact, breath, and kinesthetic imagination to cultivate ease and poise.

Guides a Feldenkrais approach through a gentle tongue on teeth exploration to notice jaw and facial muscle ease, focusing on minimal effort and calm breathing across teeth on both sides.

Conquer stage fright by shifting your attention from yourself to your imaginary scene partner or audience. Define your character's objective to anchor a more compelling performance.

Practice unvoiced lip trills, or horsey lips, with enough tension for the lips to vibrate and hold, then add voice and go from low to high while lengthening the spine.

Explore nasal consonants m and n. Feel M and N vibrate, place ma ma ma in resonance, end on C one octave above for ladies and middle C for men.

Explore vocal technique by guiding air through the larynx and shaping a taller, oo-like vowel above the speaking range, then return to the pure su for ease.

Explore how the oo vowel rises into higher notes as a taller version of the five Italian vowels, and think of jaw space to access these tall vowels.

Guide a staccato laughing exercise to detach and brighten the laugh by lifting the soft palate, with power rising from the pelvic floor and core.

Explore facial awareness through guided movements to brighten the eyebrows and eyes, cultivating happy expressions in a Feldenkrais-inspired approach.

Move your tongue to switch vowels with minimal jaw movement, focusing on up-and-down tonguing. Brighten vowels by thinking ah and smiling with your eyes for expression.

Join a jazzy Feldenkrais exercise that uses playful dooby dooby cues to guide your going down motion with encouragement and feeling good.

Practice leaping an octave by switching vowels from closed to open oo, and explore transitions between speaking and singing ranges, using amor to convey shifting emotions.

Practice fast oo's and ah's to access your high notes, and replay this video to do the same thing again.

Learn to coordinate five Italian vowels in one extended breath through a Feldenkrais exercise. Complete the down sequence to sustain the breath and build awareness.

Repeat the e vowel sequence to stabilize the larynx, keeping a soft jaw and tongue height differences between e and a. It maintains a stable larynx without conscious effort.

Wake up the head voice and gain height on high notes by voicing ooh on every note. Lift the upper jaw as the lower jaw releases down.

Practice a Feldenkrais warm-up for speaking or singing that strengthens posture, foot awareness, and breathing, while cultivating ease, balance, and the ability to move in any direction.

Set clear practice categories for speeches, monologues, and songs, including posture, jaw and breathing warmups, articulators, the mask, pitches, and performance intentions, to build confident, expressive delivery.