Musicians
“Working with Eve through Feldenkrais lessons has been wonderful and has helped me to heal from a performance related shoulder injury. She is a deeply thoughtful, sensitive, knowledgeable, and gifted teacher. I always leave my lessons with Eve feeling physically and mentally calm, focused, and more aware of the ways I’m moving and listening to my body.”
—ABBY SWIDLER, VIOLINIST
“Being a professional violist, Eve is finely tuned to the subtleties of motion and energy, and as a chamber musician she is adept at reading the messages of other bodies. These things evidently inform her Feldenkrais teaching, and it feels like she’s been doing it for years and years.”
—CATHERINE BENT, CELLIST
“I left my lesson with Eve with a sense of peace and calm that I haven’t felt in a while. My shoulders are relaxed and my chest is easily open and spacious. The lesson was a wonderful experience and I didn’t want it to end. I could tell that Eve was listening to my body and gently guiding it to be more balanced.”
—ABIGALE REISMAN, VIOLINIST
“For me, Feldenkrais has been an invitation to be in my body and be with my body and stay with my body and it has been so much fun to attend that party. It slows down my thoughts and my heart rate. When Feldenkrais comes with me into my cello practice it presents itself as pure possibility. It allows me to leave judgement behind and hone my ability to discern what my body is doing and how that becomes the sound I am making. When I listen to that invitation to be where I am, I can sit with challenging techniques for longer and with more ease. I have found myself taking moments of rest that are guided by my body's desire to digest a movement. That rest refreshes and reignites my mental focus and physical energies. Feldenkrais not just helps me slow down and be more present in my practice but makes my brain and body feel more supple and elastic. It feels like a joyful unlearning and rediscovering of my potential self. It feels like my body contains more answers to my challenges than I ever gave it credit for.”
— VALERIE THOMPSON, CELLIST
“Eve's Feldenkrais practice is creative, patient, bold, playful, and deeply intuitive. I distinctly recall producing some of the richest and most resonant sounds I've made on the viola after one of my sessions with her!”