Offering Lessons and Classes in Feldenkrais® 

Move more easily. Reduce pain. Feel better! 

• Increase comfort and skill in your daily movements
• Enhance performance in dance, sports, martial arts, music, or other activities
• Expand your movement  range and repertoire
• Prevent injuries, and aid in healing
• Improve posture, balance, flexibility and coordination
• Ease chronic pain
• Reduce stress and fatigue, and increase concentration
• Improve function after brain injury or neurological disorder
• learn effective ways to strengthen core muscles
• Functional Integration® lessons  improve ability and awareness through gentle,  hands on movements
• Verbally guided Awareness Through Movement® lessons teach the student new ways to initiate and coordinate actions

Individual Lessons

in San Carlos:

Group Classes:

Please inquire for dates, times, and locations of my classes.

Individual Lessons at My Private Studio

My private studio is located in San Carlos

I offer individual movement lessons to students at my private studio. These sessions are typically one-hour, and are designed to meet individual goals and needs . Students learn by engaging the innate intelligence of the nervous system  to improve movement.  Through highly effective lessons, anyone can  learn to awaken  awareness and the kinesthetic sense, and to sense themselves more fully.

• In Functional Integration® Lessons , I guide the student's movement while he/she lies or sits in a comfortable position on a Feldenkrais® table. These sessions , often described as gentle, relaxing, and revitalizing, teach the student  through a hands-on approach. Lessons address fundamental components of movement such as bending, flexing, extending, rotating, breathing, and finding the support of the ground. They improve functions such as walking, running, sitting, rolling and jumping, and many more, at any level of ability. This work is helpful for people of all ages and levels of physical activity and training. 

• In verbally guided Awareness Through Movement® Lessons, the student lies or sits on a floor mat, while learning to initiate and engage in movement in a unique and effective way. Through feeling, sensing, and awareness, as well as the specific design of each lesson, the student expands his/her movement quality, range, and repertoire of movement. Many students find the work awakens curiosity and is relaxing, pleasurable, meditative, and playful. Many find that the release of habitual patterns of tension make movement easier and a lot more fun. These numerous, varied lessons address a wide range of movements, from the daily, such as reaching, rolling or standing up, to the more demanding. They are helpful for all ages and ability levels, including highly trained athletes and performers. 

• Learn how to awaken and strengthen the core muscles of the body for more efficient movement.

Semi-Private Sessions for two students also available. 

Group Classes in Menlo Park and Palo Alto

About the Feldenkrais Method®

I was certified in The Feldenkrais Method® in 2002 through the Feldenkrais® Movement Institute.

The Feldenkrais® Method of Somatic Education helps people of all ages learn to move more easily. Students expand their range and repertoire of movement through innovative lessons. Awareness is developed as a tool to increase each student's ability to sense, feel, think, and move. Through private lessons, called Functional Integration® (FI), the student is guided in a personalized movement process, which includes non-invasive touch, and verbal instruction. In group classes, called Awareness Through Movement® (ATM), the teacher leads the students verbally through a lesson that improves a skill such as reaching, turning, rolling, breathing, or walking. There are a great variety of lessons addressing functions which range from the very basic to the very complex. Both approaches to the method are helpful for highly trained athletes, as well as those with challenges . People of all ages who have injuries or everyday aches, pain, stiffness and fatigue, can improve their quality of life through the brain's ability to learn and improve. Learning new ways to move, or to approach old movements, can be essential and life-changing for those  with orthopedic or neurological issues, chronic pain, or other challenges. Children with special needs can be helped to function and develop more fully. Students of the method gain greater comfort and enjoyment of movement in everyday life, as well as increased skill in specialized activities. Athletes, dancers, musicians, and other performing artists can increase ease and expressiveness, and reduce injury.

The Feldenkrais Method ® was developed by Israeli physicist and educator Dr Moshe Feldenkrais, (1904-1984), following a disabling knee injury, which could not be repaired by surgery. He taught himself to walk again without pain through improving his kinesthetic sense. His background in judo, as well as extensive study of anatomy and the neurological basis of movement , contributed to his development of this ingenious and effective educational method. He understood that, if given the right environment and instruction, any individual can learn to sense and coordinate easier, more functional movement. Feldenkrais conducted training programs in the United States in the 1970's and 80's, and is the author of several books including Awareness Through Movement and The Potent Self.

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