Bio

Looking back to the beginning of the nineties, I feel I have become a Feldenkrais Practitioner and Trainer by accident. One thing led to another, curiosity and the joy of exploration being the red thread.

When I was twelve, I wanted to dance, but I was too shy and did not find the right place. Instead, I practiced Karate. Later on, I fell in love with Aikido and spent two years practicing it in Tokyo. That is where I discovered the work of Feldenkrais, through a book I bought in search of answers about movement and learning. Back from Japan, I felt that enrolling in a Feldenkrais professional Training Program would be a natural continuation of my journey. I had not thought of it as a profession until the last week of the program, when I realized that the only way to continue on the path of learning would be to work with others. It has been fascinating indeed, and people have kept coming to seek me ever since, which is also flattering. I have been doing it for almost thirty years now.

I have chosen to become a Trainer because I found out I enjoy teaching. I have been working intensively for many years, mostly with individuals, and started sharing my experience with fellow practitioners long before I got involved in Training Programs. From my perspective, the Feldenkrais method is more than just a way to improve performance and live without pain. It is an intelligent way to live embodied, meaning to increasingly attend to your sensations and emotions and act accordingly, reducing the stress caused by external and internalized demands. But maybe it is the Zen practitioner in me that speaks here. After all, thirty years of zazen do have some effect of letting go. Of something, at least.
Sometimes I also like to think of the work of Feldenkrais as a powerful research method that enables me to research bodily movement and action by myself, on myself, and by working with others. It is like the scientific method, applied to individuals, where the individual can be both the subject and the investigator. My interest in science led me at a later stage to studying for an M.A. Degree at the Cohn institute for the history and philosophy of science and ideas at the Tel Aviv University. Four years of intensive research into philosophy and history of science taught me to think critically about what I do myself, and to examine the dynamics active in the building of a body of knowledge. In my master’s thesis, I analyzed the concept of “learning” as it is used in research in biology and comparative psychology. Analyzing the way in which our belief system and the intuitive content we assert to concepts influences the way we think and act, have become a powerful tool which I have been using ever since.

From 2004 I have been living with my family in Catalonia, Spain. I am an immigrant, a person who grew up in one culture and lives in another. The life of an immigrant is a constant process of adaptation to the new, coping with the unknown, longing the things you have left behind. It is also an opportunity for learning about the role of family, friends and society in the life of the individual.