Somatic
Movement Therapy
Creative Expression and Injury Prevention for Musicians.
Our body is our instrument. How we use it influences the quality of our movements and the sound we make with our voices and our musical instruments.
This group class uses Body-Mind Centering® and Feldenkrais® methods to facilitate creative expression and prevent injuries. It is an inquiry into the relationship between the body and the mind through movement, guided attention and non-verbal dialogue. The exploration of different body systems, developmental movement patterns and their inherent qualities of mind can create fertile ground for new performance material and improvisation. In the process students may find improvements in breathing, tone, coordination and technical proficiency as well as prevent and rehabilitate injuries.
Students should bring their instruments if they have one and a piece of music to play or compose at the end of each class.
Private sessions are also available.
For more information: www.bodymindcentering.com and www.feldenkrais.com
Body-Mind Centering® is a registered service mark of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, used with permission.
Feldenkrais® is a registered service mark of the Feldenkrais® Guild of No. America.
Testimonial:
Working with Sonja Riket, has been a tremendously rewarding experience. Her teaching, which gracefully blends the somatic method of Body-Mind Centering® with elements of The Feldenkrais Method®, has begun to integrate within me a level of dynamic body balance and awareness which I had never known existed, and which I am convinced can greatly benefit any music student, teacher, or professional performer. I am finding myself playing with more fluidity, ease, and comfort than ever before, and can finally begin to look beyond my history of music related injuries toward an optimistic future previously difficult to imagine. But far more than just injury prevention, Sonja’s “Cultivating Creative Expression” course at SF’s Community Music Center opens up creative and physical resources which can positively affect nearly every aspect of one’s life. The overall experience has been nothing short of a complete personal paradigm shift.
Peter Lee, Bachelor of Music, Classical Guitar, San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
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