Laura’s Education
I am committed to continually refining my skills and improving myself for the benefit of my clients, my family and myself. This includes on-going training in the Feldenkrais Method, Focusing, and Meditation.
Feldenkrais Professional Teacher Training Program
- Victoria II with Jeff Haller and others: March 2009-June 2012 (800 hours)
Feldenkrais Continuing Education
- 2024
- Reducing Sciatica Pain with the Feldenkrais Method (6 hours)
- Online Working with Issues Experienced in Hips and Knees
(27 hours)
- 2023
- Reducing, Raising & Equalizing Tone Advanced Training with Jeremy Krauss (15 hours)
- The Roots of Uprightness: Your Inner Reptile with David Zemach-Bersin (10 hours)
- Intelligent Knees for better walking with Raz Ori (7.5 hours)
- Heels under the Pelvis with Andrew Gibbons (5 hours)
- 2022
- Spine like a Chain with David Zemach-Bersin (9 hours)
- Perception, Filters and Reality with Candy Conino and Jenni Evans (18 hours)
- Gait for Wild Human Potential with Carol Montgomery (15 hours)
- Metatarsals to Metacarpals with Edward Yu (12 hours)
- Intelligent Hips with Raz Ori (7.5 hours)
- Defying Gravity with David Zemach-Bersin (9 hours)
- 2021
- Cleaning up the Classics with Andrew Gibbons (8 hours)
- Avoiding the Black Hole of Computer Posture with Andrew Gibbons (5 hours)
- Solvents and Glue with Jeremy Krauss Part 1 & 2 (36 hours)
- Liberate your Jaw with David Zemach-Bersin (7.5 hours)
- Feldenkrais Lessons Rooted in Yoga with Carol Kress (7.5 hours)
- Creating Length with Thomas Farnbacher (1 hour)
- Untranslated AY lessons II with Moti Nativ (2 hours)
- Something and Everything with Patrick Gruner and Mara DellPergola (8 hours)
- Anatomy Awareness through Movement with Candy Conino (32 hours)
- Flexible & Grounded with Carol Kress (7.5 hours)
- 2020
- A Training Segment Online with Larry Goldfarb (60 hours)
- The Pelvic Floor with Deborah Bowes (9 hours)
- Anatomy Awareness through Movement with Candy Conino (30 hours)
- 2018
- Listening with Your Whole Body, A Somatic Path to Better Hearing Workshop with David Kaetz (12.5 hours)
- Deepening Your Practice: Working with the Abdomen in FI with Sheri Cohen (3 hours)
- Lengthening the Spine Mentoring Workshop with Andrew Gibbons (20 hours)
- Anti Fragile Walking, The art of your head held high: August(10 hours) with Andrew Gibbons
- 4 Case Studies with Jeff Haller (4 hours)
- 2017
- Acture: Influences from your Pelvis and your Eyes with Ellen Soloway: October (25 hours)
- 2016
- Anti Fragile Walking, step by step with Andrew Gibbons: June (11 hours)
- Learning Self-Organization Again and Again and Again with Jeff Haller: Online (14 hours)
- Learning Self-Organization Again and Again and Again with Jeff Haller: Seattle (36 hours)
- One on one mentoring with Donna Ray: March (8 hours). Sept (2 hours)
- Mentoring Weekend with Jeff Haller: Feb (9 hours)
- Relief from Emotional and Physical Pain: Trauma recovery and the Feldenkrais Method with Donna Ray: September (15 hours)
- Online Secrets of the Shoulder with Jeff Haller: (4 hours)
- 2015
- Learning Self Organization Again and Again and Again… Online with Jeff Haller:(14 hours)
- Secrets of the Feet Online with Jeff Haller: (6 hours)
- Three mentoring weekends with Jeff Haller: Feb, May, July (36 hours)
- One on one mentoring with Donna Ray: (8 hours)
- 2014
- Ground, Grounded, Grounding with Jeff Haller: (36 hours)
- Lengthening the spine Part 2 with Jeff Haller: (12 hours)
- Mindful Practitioner Master Class in San Diego with Donna Ray: (46 hours)
- Crafting Functional Integration Lessons with Confidence with Jeff Haller: (42 hours)
- 2013
- Lengthening the spine with Jeff Haller: (46 hours)
- FGNA Annual Conference: A Potent Practice: (24 hours)
- Mindful Practitioner Master Class in San Diego with Donna Ray: (40 hours)
- Fundamentals of Movement for the Orthopedic Patient: Shoulders, Arms & Hands with Gordon Brown: (16 hours)
- Exploring Hip Joints with Jeff Haller: (12 hours)
- San Diego Training II with Elizabeth Beringer and Carol Kress: (30 hours)
- Learning to Use the Ground in Aikido Practice with Jeff Haller: (3 hours)
- 2012
- Heart to Heart Conversations with Allison Rapp: (72 hours)
- Carriage of the Head with Jeff Haller: (42 hours)
- Metaphor of the Headstand with Jeff Haller: (14 hours)
- FGNA Annual Conference: Embodying Neuroscience: (30 hours)
- Summer ATM Intensive with Jeff Haller: (15 hour)
- Perspectives on Walking Advanced Training with Jeff Haller: (30 hours)
- Using Resistance Advanced Training with Jeff Haller: (14 hours)
- Weekly group Feldenkrais practitioner mentoring with Jeff Haller: (57 hours)
- 2011
- Creating the Conditions for Learning Advanced Training with Jeff Haller: (38 hours)
- Perspectives on Movement with Jeff Haller: (9 hours)
- Mia Segal and Leora Gaster Advanced Training: (25 hours)
- Perspectives on Walking IV with Jeff Haller: (11 hours)
- Weekly group Feldenkrais practitioner mentoring with Jeff Haller: (120 hours)
- 2010
- Mia Segal and Leora Gaster Advanced Training: (8 hours)
- Summer ATM Intensive with Jeff Haller: (15 hours)
- Perspectives on Walking III with Jeff Haller: (11 hours)
- Perspectives on Walking II with Jeff Haller: (11 hours)
- Discovering Roots of Internal Strength Advanced Training with Jeff Haller: (38 hours)
- Weekly group Feldenkrais practitioner mentoring with Jeff Haller: (60 hours)
Meditation
Retreats:
- The Heart and Ground of Being with John Prendergast October 2023 (4 days)
- The Heart and Ground of Being with John Prendergast May 2023 (4 days)
- Hollow Bamboo Dharma Retreat with Will Johnson Online, July 2020 (1 week)
- Dharma Ocean Journey Home June 2019 (1 week)
- Dharma Ocean Winter Intensive Dec 23, 2018-Dec 30, 2018(1 week)
- Dharma Ocean Pacific NW Nov 8-Nov 11, 2018
- Dharma Ocean Journey Home June 2018 (1 week)
- Dharma Ocean Winter Intensive Dec 17, 2017-Dec 24, 2017 (1 week)
- Dharma Ocean Journey Home June 2017 (1 week)
- Dharma Ocean Winter Intensive Dec 18, 2016-January 1, 2017 (2 weeks)
- Summer retreat with Anam Thubten (1 week) 2015
- Transformation through stillness Weekthun, Berkeley (1 week) 2014
- Summer retreat with Anam Thubten (1 week) 2014
- Seattle Summer Weekthun (1 week) 2013
- Wisdom of 5 Buddha Families with Jenny Bondurant (1 week) 2013
- Shambhala Sangha Retreat (1 week) 2009
Classes
- Barrier 1 with Adam Lobel 2023
- Pathways with Adam Lobel 2023
- Discovering Your True Nature and Healing the Root of Suffering with Loch Kelly, June 2023
- Embodying Spirit with John Prendergast, November 2022
- Sense of Inner Knowing with John Prendergast Sept 2022
- Meditating with the Body, Dharma Ocean: May 2019-October 2019
- Meditating with the Body, Dharma Ocean: September 2017-February 2018
- The Somatic Practice of Pure Awareness: The Tantric Style of Embodied Meditation (Online), Dharma Ocean: 2017
- Sutrayana Study and Practice Intensive — Part One: Hinayana (Online), Dharma Ocean 2017
- Awakening the Body (Online), Dharma Ocean 2016
- Shambhala Basic Goodness Series: (2013-2014) Who am I? How can I help? What is real?
- Shambhala Sacred Path (2011-2015) Rigden Weekend, Great Eastern Sun, Windhourse, Drala, Meek, Perkey, Outrageous and Inscrutable, Lojong, and Karma
- Way of Shambhala (2008-2010): Levels 1-5
Laura Yedwab with Pema Chodron
Focusing
- Level 3: September-October, 2012 with Ann Weiser Cornell
- Philosophy, Focusing & Changing the World: March 2012 with Ann Weiser Cornell and Eugene Gendlin
- Philosophy, Focusing & Dreams Phone Class: January 2012 with Ann Weiser Cornell and Eugene Gendlin
- Level 2: January 28-29, 2012 with Jeffrey Morrison
- Level 1: December 3-4, 2011 with Jeffrey Morrison
Academic Training
- Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude from University of Pennsylvania in 1980
Other
- 2021: Conscious Marketing with Sounds True
- 2020: Negotiation Basics: Introduction to the Black Swan Method (20 hours)
- 2018: Byron Katie No Body (35 hours)
- 2018: Deepening Skills Hakomi (12 hours)
- 2017: Non Verbal Awareness with Seattle Hakomi Education Network (13 hours)
- 2015: Callan Rush Weekend: (12 hours)
- 2014:
- Master of Enrollment with Bill Baren
- Big Shift year long Coaching Program with Bill Baren