Classes/Workshops

Moshe Feldenkrais, the founder of the Method, created over a thousand Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lessons. These carefully structured lessons take students/clients on a journey of self-exploration through generally small and gentle movements. These lessons are for exploration, not exercise. Lessons offer up a chance for habits to be revealed and transformed from compulsions into choices. In these lessons, rest is a space for intelligence gathering and integration. Quality matters more than quantity. Every ATM lesson is an opportunity to practice and expand self-awareness, to settle your nervous system, to bear compassionate witness to yourself and to start reconfiguring your internal system. Over time, pain and struggle can decrease and be replaced with less effort and greater ease.

I am currently not running regularly scheduled Awareness Through Movement classes. On request, I can create a bespoke class series for a group or offer my introductory Feldenkrais workshop – Systems Support 101.

Working with Awareness Through Movement lessons, individual experience and reflection, group discussion, we explore what it can mean to tap into our multi-dimensional selves for support and to relate to others in more supportive ways.  This practice centers around experiential, embodied learning – not abstract ideas. Participants trust what they experience, rather than take in what they are told is true by me as teacher/facilitator.

To inquire about a bespoke class series or the workshop Systems Support 101, go to Contact. 

“I now have greater ease in my shoulders, neck, lower back, hips and knees. I also find I am able to mentally move through my daily tasks with more focus and relaxation! Veena's warm voice clearly guided me through the small, simple movements and reminded me that there was no right or wrong way to move. She created a supportive space to learn and listened to what we chose to share with great sensitivity and compassion. I highly recommend Feldenkrais instructor Veena.”

Diana T.
“The Systems Support workshop led by Veena were an opportunity for me to notice how subtle movements in my body are mirrored in my relationships with my family and my community. In turn, I also became aware of how movements in nature and in our community have a big influence on my body. I offer deep gratitude to Veena for her generous gift.”

Suzi O.
“Veena is an incredibly wonderful facilitator. The composition of the lessons was clear and effective, and doing her workshop series in affirming and safe BIPOC community was a wonderful experience. I highly recommend participating in any workshop led by Veena, she is magical.”

Kai H.
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ABOUT THE FELDENKRAIS METHOD®

The Feldenkrais Method® is a portal to self-learning and internal systems/culture re-configuration.  Through slow and gentle movements (in structured Awareness Through Movement® lessons or individualized Functional Integration® sessions) we gather evidence, based on your first-hand experiences. We test out options to arrive at easier, clearer, more effective ways of moving.  We see and work with you in your wholeness – shaped as you are by distinct combination of thoughts, feelings, sensations and movements/actions.

The movements and sensory observations engage you at a systemic level, e.g., the nervous system, the skeletal system, the muscular system, the visual system etc. With each movement, these systems are taken into a conversation with one another – you unconsciously learn and reconfigure yourself.  

In Feldenkrais, rest is a space for intelligence gathering and integration. Quality matters more than quantity. We encourage self-learning through exploration, curiosity, non-judgement, ease and playfulness. Engaging with the Method is an opportunity to practice and expand self-awareness, to bear witness to yourself and to start reshaping your internal culture.

The Method is accessible to people of all shapes, sizes, ages, identities and movement abilities. I endeavor to adapt individual sessions, classes and workshop content to meet diverse student circumstances.  I regularly (and upon request) hold classes which are only for people from Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities.