As an adult learner taking up clarinet in my late 50s I was constantly being told that I needed to use more support when playing to improve my sound. This was always presented as being a sort of push from the belly which I did but the sound didn’t improve. When I had a Feldenkrais® session to look at this Yeu-Meng tackled the problem from a different way. She noticed that my in-breath didn’t sound as deep as she had heard in professional wind players, so she had me panting and observed how I did it. I quickly ran out of breath because it was so shallow. When she showed me how to do it as a sort of ‘gorilla ‘pant, with an open throat as in yawning and thinking of the sound ‘awh’ it seemed to open the whole throat area on the in breath and then made it possible blow out from deep in the belly, and my clarinet sound was immediately better. I can access this feeling by practising ‘gorilla panting’ before I start playing. After another session where we worked on releasing my hip to help in alternate breathing in swimming, I didn’t feel the usual twinges as I breathed to the left and was able to breath alternately for the whole session. However, the biggest change I noticed was when I got on my bike. My left leg felt so light as it came up propelled by the down (ie the power stroke) stroke of the right leg. I had never noticed but it must be slightly resisting moving up thus meaning that I am having to put extra effort into pedalling with the right leg. So, thanks for all the good work!