Spent this morning with my Yr.1 students who are preparing for an assessment next week on their Performance Skills Analysis module. They have to run a 10 minute warm up that incorporates Feldenkrais, voice and movement. They have been panicking about how to teach Feldenkrais and I had to be quite clear that I didn't expect them to become Feldenkrais teachers after six months' of weekly classes! Instead, I asked them to think about how bringing awareness and focus to the body would help in a warm up for performers. When each student then ran through their proposed warm up, I was extremely gratified to notice their careful use of language, asking participants to focus, notice and investigate. I was also very happy to feel that they truely encouraged and were interested in this type of work rather than doing this because " we have to - its for an assessment". Interesting to note that the majority of them elected to do the initial body scan in a standing position - this obviously connected for them and I was reminded of Kene Igwenou's experiments with this whilst teaching his students at Canterbury. I look forward to seeing the workshops next week and discovering how the participants respond!