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How I Became
Interested in the I was introduced to the Feldenkrais Method® in the mid 80's while I was working as a psychiatric music therapist and backup musician. I attended several Awareness Through Movement® classes and workshops in New York City and was drawn to the simplicity and directness of the teaching and how it made me feel. I knew I wanted to study the method with David Zemach-Bersin and graduated from his four-year East Coast Teacher Training in 2003. I’m currently doing an advanced training with Yvan Joly, I study with Ruthy Alon who has developed the potent Bones for Life Method, an offshoot of Feldenkrais, and I mentor with Bonnie Kissam. Now I maintain a small private practice while continuing to perform with my trio, Mad Agnes. My experience gives me special insight into instrumentalists and vocalists as I help them discover new ways of organizing themselves while playing as well as not playing. My other students—aged four to 80–come to me because of acute or chronic pain, difficulties with balance, work and sports related injuries, and simply the desire to move with greater ease. Depending on the presenting symptom(s), students have lessons with greater or lesser frequency with most coming once a week. Improvement may come in the form of greater pleasure in movement—"My head is freer and my neck doesn’t hurt as much"—to "It’s easier for me to get up out of a chair"—to "I feel taller"—to breathing more deeply, feeling more relaxed, sleeping more soundly, and discovering and living "unavowed" dreams. |