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 1449 hours of mentoring and advanced trainings.
2018
- 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 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
- April 2017: Non Verbal Awareness with Seattle Hakomi Education Network (13 hours)