Library Contributors:
Tiffany Sankary created Movement & Creativity Library and the book Feldenkrais Illustrated: The Art of Learning. She is an artist who integrates the Feldenkrais Method, Organic Intelligence, Authentic Movement and creative process. She is the Continuity Assistant Trainer for the Boston Feldenkrais Training Program and a mentor in the Organic Intelligence Human Empowerment and Resiliency Training.
Matty Wilkinson is a practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method and Anat Baniel Method for Children. He has studied and facilitated learning and developmental processes for over 13 years as an early childhood educator in classrooms, a practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method and Anat Baniel Method for Children, and a graduate student in child development. He specializes in working with children and teaching and writing about developmental process.
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.
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.
Victoria Worsley 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.
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.
Deborah Bowes is a Feldenkrais® Trainer and PT who 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. She specializes in in changing the neural pattern of chronic pain and in improving pelvic floor health.
Fariya Doctor is a Feldenkrais practitioner who specializes in working with people with joint problems, chronic conditions, and respiratory issues. Due to her unique approach in rehabilitation, she receives patients throughout the Golden Horseshoe as well as “Over the River” in New York State. Fariya also provides online services, such as private care, and classes.
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.
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.
Jeff Haller is a Feldenkrais Trainer who has participated in over 35 trainings and has been the Educational Director for trainings in Seattle, Chicago, Vancouver and Victoria, BC, New Zealand, and Bend, OR. He is the Educational Director of the Feldenkrais Training Academy in Seattle, WA.
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. He has a private practice in Washington D.C.
Bina Venkataraman is an American journalist, author, and policy expert. She is the Editorial Page Editor of The Boston Globe and a fellow at New America. Since 2011, she has taught in the program on science, technology, and society at MIT. She is the author of The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age was named a top business book by The Financial Times and a best book of the year by Amazon, Science Friday, and National Public Radio.
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.
David Zemach-Bersin, co-author of Relaxercise (HarperCollins), is one of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais’ original American students. He studied closely with Dr. Feldenkrais from 1973-1984. In 1983, David co-founded Feldenkrais Resources, the primary publisher of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais’ books and audio programs, and he is also the co-founder of The Feldenkrais Institute of New York, and the non-profit Feldenkrais Research Foundation. David the Director of the New York City, and Baltimore Feldenkrais Method Training Programs.
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.
Aliza Stewart, originally trained as a concert pianist, has been a Feldenkrais practitioner for 29 years and is the Educational Director of training programs in Boston and Baltimore.
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. 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.
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 GöteborgsOperans Baletten before working as a freelancer in Sweden.
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.
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.
Arlyn Zones is a Feldenkrais Trainer who has taught in over 100 Feldenkrais Professional Training Programs worldwide. Recently she has initiated a special project on combining the Feldenkrais Method with vocal training for actors and the public.
Mark Read-Smith is a body psychotherapist living in Asheville, NC with extensive training in Rolfing® Structural and Movement Integration, Organic Intelligence®, Somatic Experiencing®, Continuum Movement, pilates, and yoga. He is a National Certified Counselor and holds a Masters Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
Jerry Karzen 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.
Joyce Lu is a performing artist and educator. She is the founder of LAPlayback Theatre Company and a former member of Body Weather LA. She dances with Gamelan Burat Wangi and practices taijiquan. Joyce was certified in The Feldenkrais Method in 2012 and is the current chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Pomona College.