About Supporting Activism, Service, Community

Do you identify as a social activist? Artivist? Culture Worker? Frontline healthcare worker? Public service provider? Community builder?

I’ve worn many of a few these hats in my fifty-plus years of life.

In the USA and the UK (both places which have been home to me), we are rooted in a tiring, extractive industrial culture which dominates our organizations and how we work-live together. We inadvertently end up re-creating toxic dynamics and cultures within our organizations and communities, in part because these dynamics and cultures are deeply embedded within us. They literally shape us – sculpting curves into our shoulders, compressing our ribs, shortening our backs, tightening our jaws, stiffening our necks and defining the ways we walk and turn. We shrink, trip up and find our vision obscured with brain fog. We increasingly lack self-awareness. We get irritable, reactive and impatient. We lose the best of ourselves.

Our relationships suffer. Our work suffers.

We burn out. We give up. We think about leaving the work which once was getting us up every morning, feeling dedicated and passionate. I teach The Feldenkrais Method® with an intent disrupt this experience from the inside-out. I believe we can expand our capacity to create necessary cultural, systemic and structural shifts externally by experiencing them internally.

I would be honored and consider it a privilege to serve and support you who are in service to our collective well-being. I work with individuals, groups and organizations. On request, I will facilitate BIPOC only classes.

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.