Play As We Are is a platform for musicians and movement practitioners to research, teach and create through somatic methods.

Somatic Sound Practices
Somatic movement can refer to a broad range of practices and methods that encourage and enable you to be mindfully aware of your body whilst exploring your internal experiences and perceptions. Our focus is very practical and "play" is an important part of our name - we play with sound and movement, with instrumental techniques, with repertoire, with each other and the space around us.

Maya Felixbrodt is a fellow violist and founder of Moving Strings. A composer and educator, Maya is trained in the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System - a somatic method and language for describing and interpreting human movement.

Alexandra Baybutt is a researcher, artist and educator, also specialised in the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System. She works in the fields of movement, dance, dramaturgy and performance.

Together we offer workshops, organise research sessions and facilitate artistic collaborations. We like to be free to delve into the overlapping fields of our expertise; somatic movement, mindfulness, intrumental/musical technique, artistic creation and explore any new territory that emerges!