“I am excited to share my approach to the Feldenkrais Method, informed by my martial arts and dance training. These disciplines have shaped my life in unexpected ways. The Method is dynamic, but it is also small–with tiny, sensing differences.” -Donna Wood

What People Are Saying:

“Having the class itself, meeting weekly to reacquaint myself with my body's connection to the earth, and having tools and movements that can make that connection more alive and more pleasurable was a gift.” - Semerit Strachan, Wellness and Leadership Coach, artist, author

“Highlights for me were the lessons: Seismic Shifts and Baby Foxes as there were movements introduced in these lessons that I felt I’d never done before! This surprised me after a lifetime of dance and yoga and generally thinking of myself as a “mover”! I love Donna’s straight-ahead approach to instruction. I find her very clear and her directions easy to follow. I also like the little images she provides and how she can give many images for one movement so that it becomes richer and more layered in my felt experience of it as she speaks.” - April Nunes, Yoga Teacher

“More power comes from doing less! Had to learn that one over and over. Like almost every week for the first half of the series...And then right around week 4 or 5, it came naturally to stop more, to do less, to pay attention to the precise point when it stops being easy.”

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About Donna Wood:

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.

Donna is a Spanish speaker. She lives and has a private practice on both sides of the border. She works with athletes, dancers, musicians, people recovering from injuries, those experiencing pain, children, people with age-related issues, and people with disabilities. She teaches in France, Italy, and Greece. Donna has the additional certification of Assistant Trainer and teaches in four-year Feldenkrais Professional Training Programs.

Donna views the Feldenkrais Method as a means to “hew away” at our habits and old patterns, in order to discover our full potential. As Michelangelo said, “In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood in front of me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to other eyes as mine see it.”