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 have done over three thousand hours of training including the 800 hours required to become a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner.

2021

• Co-director of Feldenkrais Training Academy, Segment 8 (60 hours)
• Co-director of IOPS Basel Segment 5 (60 hours)
• 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 (18 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 (Head & Neck, Hands & Arms) with Candy Conino (18.5 hours)

2020

• Co-director of Feldenkrais Training Academy, Segment 6 and 7 (120 hours)
• A Training Segment Online with Larry Goldfarb (60 hours)
• Co-director of IOPS Basel Segment 3 & 4 (60 hours)
• The Pelvic Floor with Deborah Bowes (9 hours)
• Anatomy Awareness through Movement with Candy Conino (30 hours)

2019

• Co-director of Feldenkrais Training Academy, Segments 2, 3, 4, and 5 with Jeff Haller (240 hours)
• Co-director of IOPS Basel Segment 1 & 2 (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)
• Staff Seattle IOPS with Jeff Haller: Sept 2016-Feb 2018: (150 hours)

2017

• Staff 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)

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)
• 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

Laura Yedwab with Pema Chodron

• Retreats:
  • 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
• Dharma Ocean Classes
  • Meditating with the Body: May 2019-October 2019
  • 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

• 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