Paolo Frigoli

Feeling Hands

What do you feel when you put your hands on a pupil? This simple question offers the opportunity to explore some aspects of the psychophysical relation between teacher and pupil. Touch is a form of communication: the pupil tells you something related to the use of himself, maybe excessive muscle tension, rigidities, restrictions, and you tell him something related to the use of yourself, hopefully release, softening, undoing, lengthening, widening, free expansion. In this practical sessions we’ll see how we can enhance our ability to listen what’s going on in the pupil and how best we can suggest inhibition and directions through our hands.

Paolo Frigoli trained in Italy with Frances Robinson and Angelo Cinque, qualifying in 1992. He is a member of STAT since then. Between 1992 and 1995 he undertook four terms of postgraduate training with John and Carolyn Nicholls in Brighton, UK. Since he qualified he has thought the Technique privately and has given talks and workshops around Italy. He has run courses for musicians at the Accademy of Teatro alla Scala in Milan and at the Conservatory of Music in Brescia. Paolo has a background in physical therapy and has studied the Cranio-Sacral Therapy.

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