A safe place to start for anyone who is not ready to join a group (via Zoom).

I will design a personal program for you.

60 min/$50

$270 for 6 sessions

“Health is measured not by the capacity to stay standing, but by the ability to be knocked down and then return to standing.”~ Moshe Feldenkrais

For individuals exhibiting chronic neurologic and musculoskeletal symptoms, including COVID-19 long haulers (either as a result of an actual virus or vaccine induced):

• weakness, exercise intolerance

• feeling off balance, lack of coordination

• neuropathy

• aching, stiffness

• muscle twitching

• fatigue, concentration difficulties

• autonomic nervous system dysfunction

How many times have you heard, “We don’t know when and if you will fully recover”? How often have you felt alone, hopeless and unheeded?

I’ve been in your shoes.

Long COVID (LC) or Post-Acute COVID-19 syndrome brings up a variety of symptoms and can affect different organs/systems. Like other chronic conditions, it may remit or relapse (symptoms come and go). While LC is closely monitored by the scientific community, there is still not enough data or any definitive treatment.

Based on the somatic approach, this course addresses neurologic/musculoskeletal manifestation of LC and aims to:

• provide you with “tools” for managing your symptoms (there are no two people that are alike)

• support your nervous system so it can get a chance to rebalance and recalibrate (LC sufferers often experience dysautonomia)

• help you to improve your daily functioning (concentration on transitional movements, balance and coordination)

• build up your emotional resilience and stamina (LC is hard on mental health and weakening the body)

It takes time to practice. It takes courage to change your mindset. And it’s totally worth every effort.

The healing starts within, and quite often you are your own best healer. You just need to know how to access that part of yourself. In this course we will do it through mindful movements, using the most recent facts about neuroplasticity.

Remember, you’re not alone on this journey. Look up, don’t give up and sign up.

Every Thursday, starting 09/01/22

11 AM Arizona, USA time

60-minute

$20 for drop-in/$60 for 4 classes

For first-generation immigrants who:

• struggle to adapt to a new culture

• have difficulties communicating in a different language

• experience panic attacks, anxiety or are prone to somatization (a condition when psychological distress/pain is expressed through the body)

“For the immigrants, in some stressful situations and contexts, the body becomes an actual blackboard on which the conflicts, the pressure, the defenses, and the emotional stress that derive from the encounter with a different culture are written.” (Scheper-Hughes N, Lock MM, The Mindful Body: a prolegomenon to future work in medical anthropology)

Do you want to read what is written on your “blackboard”? 

Don’t worry about your grammar and accent!

We will use the language that any body understands :)

Immigration is not just about your ability to speak a new language. Here is what neuroscience (as we know it today) has to say about the subject. In his book “The Brain that Changes Itself”, Doctor of Medicine, clinical researcher and writer Norman Doidge gives a scientific explanation of a rather well known fact:

“Immigration is hard on the plastic brain...Each time the plastic brain acquires culture, and uses it repeatedly, there is an opportunity cost: the brain loses some neural structures, because plasticity is competitive...Immigration is usually unending, brutal workout for the adult brain, requiring a massive rewiring of vast amounts of our cortical real estate. It's a far more difficult matter than simply learning new things...Only immigrant children who pass thru their critical periods in the new culture can hope to find immigration less disorienting and traumatizing.”

First-generation immigrants are literally “called” to reinvent themselves. It may be easier for some, others may struggle. It may be something that you didn’t expect at all. It likely will be a challenge.

But, guess what?

You built your life before. You can do it again.

This course, created by an immigrant and somatic educator, will help make your personal experience less traumatizing and more fulfilling.

Every Wednesday, starting 08/31/22

11AM Arizona, USA time

60-minute

$20 for drop-in/$60 for 4 classes

An introduction to an easy and effective modality that focuses on bone health, balance, coordination, posture improvement and delaying the onset of osteoporosis.

For anyone who is interested.

90-minute FREE workshop

12PM Arizona, USA time.

2022: Aug 27, Sep 11, Oct 23, Nov 19

Dec 18

Basic BFL Certification is available separately (3 parts, 60 hours, 90 processes; contact for details)

This option is for those who want to learn more for their professional development or for their own health.

Basic BFL Certification is also a prerequisite for the BFL Teacher’s Certification training.

“Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?”- Ruthy Alon

For STUDENTS of Professional Feldenkrais Training programs and of other healing professions. Bones for Life approach.

If you never had questions/observations similar to those listed below, this course is NOT for you.

• Is it my self-organization, or of the person I’m working with?

• My back is killing me. I think it’s because my arms are too short…or is it my torso? What about my hip joints?

• The function here is clear. Why can’t I still move this person?

• I’m exhausted after only one session, sitting unsupported/standing for 15 minutes.

• Notes…where are my notes with all the steps and movement sequences?

• Transfer weight, transfer weight, transfer weight…Zzz…a Sit Bones nightmare.

• My intuition tells me to start here/there. BUT…what about all the steps and movement sequences from my notes??

• I’m too sensitive/not sensitive enough. I’m unsure/uncomfortable/anxious to practice with people who are too sensitive/not sensitive enough.

• The table is too low/too high….my arms are definitely too short for this work!

• I have no idea what I’m doing...

If you’re still reading, let me ask you, “How skeletal do you feel?”

This question I remember the most from my first year of Professional Feldenkrais training. The deeper meaning of that simple way of directing future practitioners’ attention began to unfold later - when I got a chance to study the Bones for Life™ (BFL) program.

It was created by Ruthy Alon, one of the first thirteen students of Dr. Feldenkrais. The program addresses bone/joint health, weight bearing posture, balance and the whole body coordinated flow of movements in the vertical plane.

This “adaptation” of the Feldenkrais Method consists of 90, meticulously explained, processes. They are shorter than the Feldenkrais ATM lessons (only 5-30 min.), but have the same positive effect.

Bones for Life is probably the most quintessential “manual” of HOW to be skeletal.

This course is for those who:

• seek to explore and improve their own self-organization and self-use. Studying and practicing BFL will:

  • increase your self-awareness

  • build up your stamina

  • refine your sensitivity

  • help you to develop self-authority

  • give you basic knowledge about functions/structure/variations of the human skeleton and it’s role in healthy natural movement

  • stimulate your creativity since adapting the BFL processes is a big part of this modality

• want to have a better understanding of the Feldenkrais Method

• like to delve deeper and “dissect” the study material. Each BFL process comes with a description that includes - key points, background, step by step explanation, purpose, strategies and an outline

• wish to have an additional “tool” for working with a population affected by osteopenia/osteoporosis

Among my classmates for the BFL training were four Guild Certified Feldenkrais practitioners (with 15-40 years of experience), Pilates and Yoga instructors, occupational, massage and physical therapists, a certified personal trainer and an Aikido teacher. You may be a student of one of the above programs. No matter what part of the professional spectrum (educational or healing) you’re planning to focus on in the future, there is one thing that will be held in common:

What you convey with your presence. What you embody. Your somatic awareness. Your self-organization and self-use as a teacher/practitioner/healer.

It’s the “ground” upon which you will build relationships with your future clients. The ground for potential connection.

The renowned Feldenkrais practitioner and author of “Mindful Spontaneity: Lessons in the Feldenkrais Method” (1970), Ruthy Alon created BFL in her “golden years.” She taught it around the world for several decades, long into her mid-eighties.

Even if you don’t anticipate staying professionally active as long as she did, you may be curious about what enabled her not only to be upright for hours, but to teach and facilitate groups, conveying a message that she devoted her life to.

You can learn more about that in this course. But, most importantly, you will experience and practice how to embody a message you would like to convey. You will find your ground to be able to support others.

Sign Up If you feel it in your bones.

Five week series Nov 5, 12, 19 and Dec 10, 17 in 2022.

10AM Arizona USA time/90-minute sessions

Three 90-minute classes in group format (Nov 6, 13, 20 in 2022)

One 60-minute individual session for each participant (scheduled separately)

11 AM Arizona, USA time

For more information touch here