My Training

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 Method®

I completed my Feldenkrais Practitioner Certified training (800 hours) in 2012. In addition, I have done 1574.5 hours of mentoring and advanced trainings.

2019

Co-director of Feldenkrais Training Academy, segment 2 with Jeff Haller (60 hours)

2018

Co-director of Feldenkrais Training Academy, segment 1 with Jeff Haller (60 hours)
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)
Seattle IOPS with Jeff Haller: Sept 2016-Feb 2018: (150 hours)

2017

NY IOPS with Jeff Haller: (180 hours) Oct 2015-May 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)
Callan Rush weekend: (12 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)
Master of Enrollment and the Big Shift Coaching Program with Bill Baren
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)
Victoria II Fedenkrais Teacher Training Program with Jeff Haller and others: March 2009-June 2012 (800 hours)
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:
- 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
Dharma Ocean Classes
- Meditating with the Body: September 2017-February 2018
- The Somatic Practice of Pure Awareness: The Tantric Style of Embodied Meditation (Online) 2017
- Sutrayana Study and Practice Intensive — Part One: Hinayana (Online) 2017
- Awakening the Body (Online) 2016
Shambhala Classes
- Basic Goodness Series: (2013-2014) Who am I? How can I help? What is real?
- 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

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 1986
Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude from University of Pennsylvania in 1980

Other

October 2018: Deepening Skills Hakomi (12 hours)
April 2017: Non Verbal Awareness with Seattle Hakomi Education Network (13 hours)