Subtle Sensuality

Feldenkrais® Workshop with Paul Pui Wo Lee

Can sensuality be that symptomatic glow of one’s aliveness and power? It is not only for one’s outward appearance, but it can also be the enticing pleasure of self-knowing that feeds creativity and resourcefulness to manage the subtle internal shifts to meet life’s situations with more choice and ease. It’s having the know-how to either slither through each moment or to confront it with edge. It’s the assurance from having a deeper connection and recognition of one’s own capacities to do things with more care, craft, calculation, and thrill. It’s like the silent, scrumptious joy of secretly holding an exquisite praline in your mouth, and prolonging the waves of flavor by letting it melt slowly.

The idea of the Feldenkrais Method® is to help refine and complete one’s self-image to enhance the efficacy of one’s actions, to restore the ability to regain balance, and improve one’s flexibility and adaptability. Through this workshop, I invite people to regard themselves as living, breathing works of art, and that this refined self-image actually serves as a reliable map to modulate our actions, composing and recomposing ourselves to experience our own power, shaping how we experience ourselves and what we broadcast through our motions.

Through the discussions and Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lessons, I hope to offer a space where sensuality can find synonymity with less eyebrow-raising - hair-raising - keywords, such as health, vitality, stability, strength, power, adaptability, confidence… I’m looking forward to opening the arena and collectively revolving around what sensuality means. At this point, I propose that a part of sensuality is the sleek mastery one acquires to move fluidly and decidedly. The more seductive aspect of sensuality for me, however, is the cultivated appreciation for how each roll, shift, tilt, and lean happening inside us contributes to the moment-to-moment artistry and intelligence for living. Becoming a connoisseur of our kinesthetic details is what empowers our stance as vibrant individuals.

Self-paced workshop includes:

Video recordings of a Feldenkrais workshop with Awareness Through Movement lessons & discussions

Downloadable audio recordings

Bonus Recording: The Feldenkrais Method as a Compass for Sensuality

“In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us.” -Moshe Feldenkrais

About Paul Pui Wo Lee:

Paul Pui Wo Lee is from Hong Kong originally, and now lives in Bremen, Germany, where he serves as the rehearsal director and choreographic assistant at Of Curious Nature, a contemporary dance company. Following a neck injury, Paul discovered the Feldenkrais Method® and eventually became a certified practitioner in 2015. In 2019, he also became certified as a Jeremy Krauss Approach (JKA) practitioner and therapist. He has taught Feldenkrais® at Danish Dance Theatre, the Danish Actors’ Association, Dansalliansen, Theater am Gärtnerplatz, Theater Regensburg, Skånes Dansteater, Cullberg, and at educational institutions such as the Danish National School of Performing Arts and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Alongside his own online classes, he has been sharing the method through Tiffany Sankary’s Movement & Creativity Library and The Exhale Cafe, an online platform for musicians.

Sharing the Feldenkrais Method with artists has been a passion for Paul, because it offers them the tools to develop a more sustainable and evolving practice that enhances technical freedom and security, which also enriches their expression with more nuances, pleasure, taste, and vitality. By helping them cultivate a keener embodied understanding of their individual movement capacities, they experience improvements in their performance quality born from sensitivity, intelligence, and health. In Paul’s eyes, an artist is not just someone who goes up on stage - everyone has the capacity to become an “everyday artist” by taking the time to sense themselves more deeply to acquire ease and elegance moving through their day-to-day living.

Paul graduated from the National Ballet School in Toronto before moving to The Netherlands to study contemporary dance at the Rotterdam Dance Academy. Paul then went on to dance with IT Dansa in Barcelona and the Göteborgs Operans Balett in Sweden. Later as a freelancer, he has worked with Örjan Andersson (Andersson Dance), Kenneth Kvarnström, Ina Christel Johannessen, Helge Letonja, and Virgilio Sieni. With “Goldberg Variations: Ternary Patterns for Insomnia”, a co-production between Andersson Dance and Scottish Ensemble, he toured around Sweden, Scotland, Germany, as well as Shanghai, the Barbican in London, and the Kennedy Center.

The Feldenkrais Method® as a Compass for Sensuality

What People are Saying about Paul’s Teaching:

“Feldenkrais needs more sensuous teachers like Paul Pui Wo Lee and definitely more classes on this topic”

“Your voice is soothing, kind, gentle and reassuring”

“I feel particularly touched by this class and guiding, like a souvenir of the power of simplicity and gentleness”

“I found so many connections through the whole of myself and a profound interaction with the floor as I moved through the clarity of instructions Paul offered”

“Magical Paul, really magical”

“I love how your lessons Paul bring out the dancer in me. I am thrilled that she is still alive and can still connect her arms, her ribs and her feet in the midst of global crisis. Your obsession with the feet is a perfect match for my needs right now as I look for ways to increase resilience in my legs and also ways to ground in such upending times. I do some of your exercises when I am in Zoom meetings along with other ways of keeping my feet alive while either standing or sitting. Thank you for your delightful energy!”

“My awe of Feldenkrais has just stepped up a notch thank you, love your work”

“I love the way that Paul teaches”

“You are a gem”