about . Emma
My Story
I’m a Feldenkrais teacher, from a background as a professional classical musician. I started my journey with the Feldenkrais Method in 1999, leading to my four year training, graduating as a EuroTAB certified teacher in 2015. I worked as an associate with Scott Clark at Feldenkrais London, before moving my practice to Bloomsbury.
I enjoy working with performers, children, athletes, and people from all walks of life to recapture their pain free balance, movement, grace, and power.
As a teacher, I bring my intelligence, kindness, positivity and patience to work with my clients and students. We start from where you are, working together to explore the possibilities for change in the way you move, think, act and feel.
I came to Feldenkrais by accident, at a music course. We lay on the floor, did some weird small movements. I remember most of the lesson was being told to do less, and smaller. I wondered what i was doing there, but when I got up, I walked completely differently, as though I had put on someone else’s legs when I got up. I found it hard to believe. I hadn’t done anything one could construe as work in the normal sense, and yet I was moving with a fluidity and ease I didn’t recognise as my own. I went back every lunchtime of the course, and decided it was something I needed to take home with me, and bring into my life.
Back in London, I found Scott Clark, a teacher to continue with. I noticed when I was practising regularly, I didn’t get my normal shoulder pain whilst playing the viola. I had had to take time off playing in my last year of music college, with RSI and shoulder problems.
I felt calmer, more grounded and better in general. I was less stressed on stage, and more comfortable finding my own voice. As someone who had been bullied throughout my schooling for having a speech impediment, that was also important.
Since becoming involved with Feldenkrais my playing has transformed, and I can say, hand on heart, that practising Feldenkrais has made me a far better musician, and human being.
My decision to do the training was at the beginning more personal. I was born with something wrong with my legs, a cleft palate, as well as deaf. My parents were asked if they’d like to leave me at the hospital, as I’d never hear, talk or walk. I spent much of my childhood in both hospitals and wheelchairs, and told by every specialist I saw that I’d be in a wheelchair by the time I was 30.
With such a dismal prognosis, I was aware I would have to do something to prevent it, I’d watched people around me deteriorate as they aged, even without my restrictions.
When I discovered the Feldenkrais MEthod, I realised this would be the best way forwards for me.
Feldenkrais is not a miracle cure. It can’t get rid of the condition I have. Practising it regularly enables me to use the rest of myself as well as possible, to compensate for the parts of me that weren’t so well made.
I have little pain now, far less than in my youth. I move better than ever (and more easily than many of the able-bodied people I know), I go dancing and running when I feel like it.
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