Joan teaches Feldenkrais. This practice of exercises will help you learn to move efficiently and without pain.
Joan has been a Feldenkrais® practitioner since 1996 and an occupational therapist since 1982. Her academic background includes research on disability, aging and movement science for which she received her Master’s degree. Professionally, she has worked for nearly 30 years in physical rehabilitation. “But it wasn’t until I discovered the Feldnekrais Method that my profession became my art and my own process of self-discovery.”
As a Feldenkrais practitioner, Joan has worked with people of all ages and every ability, from injured athletes and dancers to persons living with disabling illnesses. She has taught Feldenkrais classes in clinical settings, educational classrooms and community-based programs.
Her favorite quote regarding the Feldenkrais Method®:
“Make the impossible, possible;
the possible, easy;
and the easy, elegant.” Moshe Feldenkrais, D. Sc.
“Each Feldenkrais session is a series of unfolding movement sequences that gently, gradually, subtly, but profoundly, awaken our hidden potential. To me that means we have the ability to reclaim motions we thought were impossible, to find effortlessness in activities with which we now struggle, and to discover a grace and elegance we thought we never would ” – Joan
On the light Side
I find inspiration….walking of the beach, watching the waves crash and tides ebb and flow.
When I was a kid…. I spent more time upside down, walking on my hands, than upright.
One of my favorite books is… The Phantom Phone Booth, although nowadays I mostly like to listen to mystery books on tape.
I’d like to visit… Mexico, Alaska, Greece, my back yard in a hammock.