ABOUT ANNE

I was preparing my audition pieces for graduate programs in Acting, when my coach told me that I needed to concentrate on my posture and movement.  I was ‘unbelievable’ as certain characters because my physical habits were so biased.  I, too, could feel that I was unable to access certain characteristics.  After one Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement class, I knew I wanted to become a Feldenkrais Practitioner.  I felt an incredible freedom open up to me.  Years of effort, strain, stress and hard work lifted, and I enjoyed an ease and acumen in being myself, a pleasure heretofore unknown and spaciousness, power, and grace--in other words, enormous possibility.  Least of all, my acting improved exponentially.  I was being spontaneous and creative and my body could respond and convey all my intentions.

As I became more coordinated through doing Feldenkrais work and more aware of myself, I reaped the benefits this method has to offer. Life involved less effort and more pleasure.  I began to train in the martial art of Aikido and learned even more about bio-mechanics.  During this period of intense high contact training, I sustained a few injuries (back and shoulder injuries and then sciatica) and recovered and improved to a level that I had not previously known.  These personal experiences with severe pain have helped me enormously in my work with my clients.

In fact, helping my clients learn how to let go of unconscious habits (ways of moving or 'organizing' our movements) that cause pain and dysfunction and learn new ways of  moving and being, is my passion. After over 10 years of work in this field, every day I am more grateful of my own vibrant reality and thrilled with the opportunity to share this empowering work with others.

I enjoy a Feldenkrais practice in San Rafael where I offer private lessons, weekly classes and monthly workshops. I draw from my experience in acting, meditation, Aikido, and work with children and adolescents. My intent is to assist my students to live more fully, comfortably and effectively by expanding their repertoire of possible movements and actions. By intimately understanding the learning process, I know how to create the conditions for others to learn. Over the course of my four-year training, I underwent an extended in-depth period of apprenticeship and guidance to appreciate and utilize the infinite variety of possible human movements. I have acquired the sophistication necessary to create, in myself and others, new behavioral patterns while inhibiting destructive and limiting patterns. I have spent 1000s of hours studying a vast repertoire of movements and have learned to recognize the finest details in the gestalt of each of these movements. I understand and recognize complex psychological, biological and neurological components of the learning process. This unique knowledge combined with my highly trained and sensitive touch, communicates new ways to move.