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Here you’ll find lots of things that I’ve written short reads, longer articles and more

For all my commitment to engaging in practices that grow a body of experiential knowledge, language is in fact my medium. The practices that I develop are shared by guiding others through them with words.

I’m acutely aware of my use of language. At times, I describe as transparently as possible the tasks I’m inviting people to engage in. At other times, I try to cast a spell, through the enchantment of words, to invite the possibility for people to experience themselves and their being in the world differently.

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What is the Feldenkrais Method?

The Feldenkrais method is named after its creator Moshe Feldenkrais. It is a somatic educational system which primarily offers to improve the quality, range and comfort with which you move.

What are Feldenkrais FIs?

Feldenkrais Method one-to-one individual lessons are known as Functional integration (FI) lessons. The sessions last 60 minutes and take as a starting point some movement that you are interested in improving or a situation that you are having difficulty with.

What are Feldenkrais ATMs?

Awareness Through Movement (ATM) classes are the form in which the Feldenkrais Method is taught to groups. ATM classes usually last about 40-60 minutes.

What is Contact Improvisation?

Contact improvisation is a way of dancing playfully with a partner, grounded in physical sensation, which investigates how to play through sharing touch with the earth, with gravity and momentum, and with others or simply the awareness of space.

How can the Feldenkrais Method benefit me?

While the Feldenkrais Method may seem to be focused on movement, as an early systems thinker Moshe Feldenkrais was interested in much more than movement.

My interest in somatics

Somatics integrates mind-body as one whole through practices like Feldenkrais Method, experiential anatomy, and post-modern dance movement approaches

My Background

Physical challenges led me from journalism to circus, then somatics and dance. Now I teach internationally, sharing how movement became my medicine and my life's work

A Perceptual Warm-up For Contact Improvisation Jams (2016)

I struggle with the term warm-up. Why do we warm up for a class or a jam? As a way of preparing to move. How do we prepare to move? By movingI

Awareness Perception Presence : Inquiring into forming a body of work (2013)

Rather than simply teaching forms that I had been taught and making them increasingly my own through the act of teaching them, I felt like I was for the first time embarking on developing my own body of work

On Teaching Contact Improvisation

In my teaching of contact improvisation to both beginners and more experienced dancers I started to make use of such limited parameter scores

Some thoughts on Nancy Stark Smith’s UnderScore (2003, updated 2009)

The UnderScore frames improvisational freedom beautifully, yet its written phases create confusion. Here, I explore alternative ways of notating it

Safety at Contact Improvisation jams (2006)

Contact improvisation challenges social norms; while touch can be misused, safety depends on remembering choice to begin or continue

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