Awareness Through Movement (ATM) is offered in a group setting, in which I guide students through simple, gentle, and functional movement patterns. These small movement ideas help us discover more easeful and powerful ways to embody oneself. ATM classes relieve tension and pain, reduce stress and anxiety, and help return one back to a more centered state of being. I love teaching ATM classes because they are much more accessible than many movement or fitness classes, as most lessons are done lying down on a blanket.
Functional Integration (FI) is a one-on-one lesson, in which I offer a student touch and movement manipulation. I will do most of the work and the student receives the benefit of feeling new movement patterns that relieve tension and create more ease. FI has all the benefits of ATM lessons and more, because I can cater each lesson to the specific qualities and needs of my student. Through decades of my embodied practice, the listening presence I offer speaks directly to the nervous system of my student. These one-on-one lessons are profound and healing.
As a Feldenkrais practitioner, I specialize in working with:
DANCE: performers who want to improve in flexibility, balance, ease, and expressivity. There are many myths about how one should dance or shape their body. As a dancer my entire life, I am passionate about helping to dispel these disillusions and to help dancers disocver the potential that they’ve always had.
VOICE: singers, actors, and performers who want to get deeper into the embodiment of vocalization as an extension of themselves. We explore the breathing system, alignment in vocalization, emotional states as a result of voice, and tension patterns thoughout the body (pertinently: the jaw, tongue, neck, back, belly, ribs, and pelvis).
STRESS & ANXIETY: people who want concrete ways to feel less stress and anxiety in their daily life. Students often don’t realize how much of their emotinal states are being foundationally shaped by bracing patterns in their body.
& anyone who has interest: If you are called to learn more about your embodied experience, it would be my pleasure to work with you.
Please email me at jasonmvu@gmail.com for booking inquiries. I currently teach in the SF bay area and online (zoom).
The Feldenkrais Method® is a movement practice that helps people cultivate a fuller, more connected, and empowered life. It uses simple and gentle movements to create more awareness around embodied patterns, which empowers the entire self.
There are two ways that I teach this method: Awareness Through Movement and Functional Integration.