Karen Clark offers ongoing classes in Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® for Singers Monday evenings in Berkeley.
These classes offer an inspiring introduction to Awareness Through Movement® lessons that will help singers increase their vocal range and stamina, manage stress and performance anxiety, and enjoy yourself-your voice-more fully!
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Alternatively, consider signing up to this class. Beginners, amateurs, and professionals, teenage to adult-all are welcome. You may find yourself breaking into song! Experience how your whole body coordinates to inform the healthy use of your voice. Awareness Through Movement® Lessons are group lessons in which the teacher verbally guides students in a series of structured movements. Each lesson presents a challenge and opportunity to focus our attention on how we move. In this class, Karen structures each lesson to emphasize how to more fully embody and enjoy our voices. Dress comfortably. Mats are provided.
Contralto Karen R. Clark is well known for her many performances of early and new music. A devoted voice teacher and practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method®, Karen enjoys researching the mind/body connection and healthy vocal technique in a wide variety of styles. She holds degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and has taught in prestigious music departments, including Princeton University and the Thornton School of Music at USC. She maintains private studios in Oakland and Petaluma.
Here is a short video introduction to Karen Clark’s studio:
Classes are held at The Works in Berkeley 2566-C Telegraph Avenue, Mondays 6:00 to 7:15 p.m. The classes are ongoing except for a holiday break around New Year’s (no classes on December 29th and January 5th). Otherwise, classes meet every week.
The fee for the continuing weekly class is $30 per session, or 6 consecutive weeks for $150. To register, email [email protected].
