Library Contributors
Neruma Ankti is a Student Teacher, currently in the fourth year of her Feldenkrais Practitioner Training in Sussex, UK. She is a self-taught writer and artist – a creative person is more how she would describe herself, with a passion for art, learning and teaching.
Donna Wood has been teaching and exploring the Feldenkrais Method for 25 years. She holds a black belt in the Japanese martial art of Aikido and the rank of Professor in the Brazilian martial art of Capoeira. Her lifelong immersion in dance and martial arts informs both her life and her teaching.
Elizabeth Beringer has been involved with the practice and development of the Feldenkrais Method for more than 35 years and is one of the foremost Feldenkrais teachers and trainers. She studied directly with the founder of the Method, Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, in both the U.S. and Israel between 1976 and 1983.
Elinor Silverstein, an internationally recognized Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and holds degrees in Biology and Zoology. In addition, she integrates the sciences of nutrition and movement biology into her teaching of the Gut-Brain Connection and Vagus Nerve System Health…
Paul Pui Wo Lee is a certified Feldenkrais practitioner and Jeremy Krauss Approach (JKA) practitioner and therapist, who currently serves as the rehearsal director and choreographic assistant at Of Curious Nature, a contemporary dance company. He graduated from Canada’s National Ballet School before training at the Rotterdam Dance Academy. He has danced with IT Dansa and Göteborgs Operans Baletten before working as a freelancer in Sweden.
Born in Zambia, and raised by Indian parents, Fariya spent most of her life growing up in Canada. As an adult, Fariya has over 23 years of experience in dealing with the art and science of healing the body. She is an experienced Registered Massage Therapist and a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner™.
Victoria runs a busy general Feldenkrais practice In North London (UK) including classes, workshops and hands-on sessions for everyone from children to seniors including actors, musicians and athletes; people living with neurological disorders or chronic pain, recovering from injury, wishing to improve their yoga or other movement practice; those just looking to live life more easily with less strain.
Whether she is with students teaching or speaking on stage, Astra Coyle, Feldenkrais Practitioner, is devoted to assisting you in bringing your desires into reality. She encourages you to rethink the way you go about transforming your life and your communities through exploration of more pleasurable options that were previously invisible to you.
Bina Venkataraman, author of, The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age is an American journalist, author, and policy expert.
Alan S. Questel is known for his clarity, creativity and down to earth style of teaching. He brings a depth of understanding, humor and a gentle human perspective to the learning of the Method and creates lively conditions for learning. He became an Assistant Trainer in 1986 and earned his accreditation as a Trainer in 1994. He has taught in over 40 FELDENKRAIS® Professional Training Programs in worldwide.
He has taught at Princeton University, S.U.N.Y. College at Purchase, the New York Open Center, the New Actors Workshop, NYC, The Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, CA and at Mother Teresa’s Shishu Bhavan in Calcutta, India.
Jerry Karzen is studied with Moshé Feldenkrais 1976-1983 and was his personal traveling companion, secretary, and close friend. Since 1980 Jerry has been the Organizer/ Educational Director for some 40 training programs. He is currently the Educational Director for Feldenkrais trainings in Germany, China, and in 2020, Moscow. Jerry assisted in the editing of Dr. Feldenkrais' last two books and directed/ filmed, 95% of all existing videos of Dr. Feldenkrais' private Functional Integration® lessons.
Deborah Bowes is a Feldenkrais® Trainer who initially trained as a physical therapist at Columbia University in New York and later earned a Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Shenandoah University in Virginia. She has taught in over 32 training programs around the world. Deborah co-founded the San Francisco Feldenkrais® Center for Movement and Awareness in 1988. She is an adjunct faculty member at Saybrook University, teaching Movement Modalities and Wellness. Her doctoral research demonstrated the benefit of her original Feldenkrais Method program, Pelvic Health and Awareness for men and women, for improving pelvic floor health.
David Zemach-Bersin has been teaching the Feldenkrais Method for 40 years. His first library contributions are excerpts from his classic Awareness Through Movement series' that I recommend again and again, as great places to begin and continue the practice of ATM. David is currently in the process of creating some exciting online offerings with his new organization Feldenkrais Access.
Ingrid Weisfelt is a Feldenkrais practitioner and assistant trainer who specializes in working with adults, children with special needs and with performers. Ingrid's Feldenkrais practice is informed by her twenty year career as a professional dancer. Ingrid has taught at several performing arts institutions including the National Theatre Drama School, Monash University and the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University.
Amie Summers, LGSW, SEP, OIX is a therapist and Associate Faculty at Organic Intelligence®. She helps children and families in her practice with a wide range of emotional and physical struggles, including: trauma, anxiety, aggression, depression, attachment and social difficulties, grief and loss, obsessive and compulsive thoughts/behaviors and chronic pain.
AMY WALSH is an artist, teacher, visual storytelling specialist. She started the Bureau of Tactical Imagination to help changemaking small businesses use cultural intervention and visual storytelling strategies, to both propel their visibility and success in business, and make meaningful change in the world.
Mary Spire is a musician and Feldenkrais Trainer for 18 years and has actively taught worldwide since graduating in 1987. She is the Educational Director of the Optimal Moves LLC Feldenkrais Teacher Training Program in Marin County, CA.
Mark Read-Smith is a body psychotherapist living with his family in Asheville, NC. He has extensive training in movement and biological process through study and certifications in Rolfing® Structural and Movement Integration, Organic Intelligence®, Somatic Experiencing®, Continuum Movement, pilates, and yoga.
Arlyn studied acting, voice and mime and taught Movement for Actors prior to her involvement with the Feldenkrais Method. She began studying the Feldenkrais Method® in 1977 and graduated from Dr. Feldenkrais’ US Training Program in 1983…
Maria Bacha is dedicated to supporting children and adults to connect, unwind body tension, change patterns and realize their full potential. Mary has 10 years of experience in practice. She has 6 years of advanced training in cranial, visceral and muscle-skeletal methods. Mary is currently working on a research project, titled "Engaging the Vagal System: Clinical Practices and Considerations to Support Vagal Function”. During the pursuit of research she has studied with trauma experts, Stephen Porges, Bessel Vander Kolk, Janina Fisher, Kathy Kain and Stephen Terrell.
Steve Hoskinson, MA, MAT, is the Founder of Organic Intelligence®. Steve has trained therapists around the globe for nearly 20 years in the art of the compassionate treatment of trauma. His specialty is complex systems, and understanding how biology meets psychology As a leader in the Somatic Psychology field, Steve worked as International Training Faculty for the Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute for 17 years and is currently Adjunct Faculty for JFK University’s Somatic Psychology program.
Margaret Kaye has been teaching the Feldenkrais Method of Movement for around 30 years. Margaret is a certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner, Assistant Trainer, and member of the Australian Feldenkrais Guild. Margaret specialises in working with performers, such as actors, musicians and athletes.
Aliza Stewart has been a Feldenkrais practitioner for 29 years and is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Trainer. For the last 19 years she has been on the teaching staffs of numerous Feldenkrais Professional Training Programs around the country and internationally, educating new practitioners in the US, Europe, Israel, and Brazil. She has given classes, workshops and presentations for many institutions and organizations including T. Rowe Price Associates Inc., The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, The Kennedy Krieger Institute, The Maryland Medical and Chirurgical Society, The University of Wisconsin at Madison, The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Maryland, George Mason University, and Carroll County General Hospital. She has taught Feldenkrais classes to medical students at the University of Maryland Medical School.
Seth Dellinger is a Feldenkrais practitioner who specializes in working with movement as a vehicle for tapping into the natural creativity possessed by all human beings.
"If you are a human being, you have a deep natural wellspring of creativity that is your greatest resource for vitality." -Seth Dellinger
read Seth's article: Movement as Metaphor, with illustrations by Tiffany Sankary
Learn more about Seth on his website Move Like a Child
Madelyn Kent is a Feldenkrais Practitioner, as well as a former instructor of playwriting, screenwriting, and theater at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. The Developer of Sense Writing, she has taught the method to nearly 1,000 participants in 8 countries.
Matty Wilkinson is a practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method and Anat Baniel Method for Children. He specializes in working with children and teaching and writing about developmental process.
Jeff Haller studied directly with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, the founder of the Feldenkrais Method®. In 1983, Jeff graduated from his own professional training program in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Joyce Lu is a performing artist and educator. She is the founder of LAPlayback Theatre Company and a former member of Body Weather LA.