What will we do during an in-town gentle movement retreat? These two half-day retreats are in-person gatherings for a small group of participants in the Seattle area. I will guide you through a delicious movement practice, including a Feldenkrais® Awareness Through
From Pain to Pleasure: Finding Freedom Through Neutral
An Invitation to Pleasure “Move toward pleasure,” a dance teacher once offered us young dancers. It was a novel instruction and the results were stunning. I felt a patience and kindness toward myself I had never felt before, and movement
News about my private practice and classes in the environment of Covid 19
(Updated Monday, July 30, 2020) Thank you for your patience as I navigate the changing guidance for private practice and group classes during the Covid 19 outbreak. Please read the following carefully. Private Feldenkrais® Sessions I am currently seeing private
Walking Your Walk: A Spring In-Town Feldenkrais Retreat
Walking Your Walk: A Spring In-Town Feldenkrais Retreat Do you ever wish that walking were more comfortable, or that you could walk longer or farther? As we mature, we may notice that we lose certain capacities in walking, like “I’m
Pleasure and the Mistake of Chronic Pain
What do you mean by pleasure? I’ve been teaching my students to move toward pleasure in their yoga and Feldenkrais® practices for many years. I find it a little awkward to use the word “pleasure”, with its connotations of sex
Principles that Guide my Teaching
You, my student, are self-governing. My job is to guide you to deepen your awareness of yourself and help you to improve your ability to self-govern. I can’t create experience for you. I can only participate in creating the environment
Constructive Disobedience: Feldenkrais in the Yoga Classroom
(Constructive Disobedience: Feldenkrais ® in the Yoga Classroom was originally published in May 2012. I offer it here as part of a series of favorites pieces I am updating for my new website. For another article on Feldenkrais in the
Self Image | Body Image
“The behavior of human beings is firmly based on the self-image they have made for themselves. Accordingly, if one wishes to change one’s behavior, it will be necessary to change this image. What is a self-image? I would argue that
“The more we reside in the body…
… the more we find ourselves living in the penumbral awareness of the body itself. In time, we find ourselves knowing our world not so much through thinking about it, but by sensing it and feeling it, not just as
No Wrong Movement
Have you ever heard me in say class, “There is NO WRONG MOVEMENT”? What does that mean? What if that were really true? Without being told what is the “right” movement, how would you know how to move? How would