Music is not just one note after another, nor is a Feldenkrais lesson one movement after another.  There are parallels between how music is composed, or improvised, and how an Awareness Through Movement  lesson is composed or a Functional Integration lesson improvised.  Exploring thematic development in music can show how to present a lesson that is unified yet varied.  Demonstrating and understanding musical form can help us create a lesson from beginning to middle to end.  We will listen to music and analyze the structure of Feldenkrais lessons against the background of musical composition.

Bob Schlesinger (2007), a professional musician for thirty years, has been touring the country playing jazz, the blues, and R&B.  He has a degree in music theory and composition, composes music for film, and teaches piano and the Feldenkrais Method in Boulder, CO.  He presented this workshop in his training with rave reviews!