Each faculty member offers private lessons called Functional Integration. These one-on-one sessions provide an opportunity for the student to accelerate the learning of alternatives to habitual patterns of organization. Those with chronic pain or movement limitations, or those who would like the benefit of individual help, will find that these lessons are a potent means of improving daily function, as well as an excellent preparation for Awareness Through Movement classes.

The cost of the lesson varies with the individual teacher. In some instances, medical insurance may cover the practitioner's lesson fee. (Click on teachers' names to e-mail individual teachers).

All Feldenkrais Learning Center faculty members are certified by the Feldenkrais Guild of North America® to teach both Awareness Through Movement® and Functional Integration®.


Faculty Sightings

Here's what some of our faculty have been up to in addition to the classes and workshops they are offering at the Center.

Marcy Lindheimer
Marcy and Anat Baniel recently co-taught the 8th segment of the 10-segment basic training for 80 Anat Baniel Method practitioners-in-training in San Rafael, CA in late August. The training will continue in October with the 9th segment. A new training will begin in January of 2009. Applications are now being accepted.

Rebecca Gardiner
Rebecca's classes in the FELDENKRAIS METHOD at the Mind Body Studies in the Performing Arts Festival this summer received rave reviews!

Kathy Yates
Kathy is Program Director for One Little Step in Glassboro, NJ, offering scholarships to children with special needs. In August, the children in the program participated in a week-long intensive where they received one FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION lesson a day with Kathy and a local practitioner.

"In exposing me to new options for movement,
the skilled and compassionate teachers at the Feldenkrais Learning Center have taught me an even more important lesson: that it is possible to overcome seemingly insurmountable limitations - not just in movement, but in every aspect of life."
Madeline Rogers
Director of Publications
New York Philharmonic

Our Faculty

Marcy Lindheimer, Director
Anat Baniel Method for Childrencm
Special Needs Children
Voice Teacher
Private Lessons by Appointment
(212) 362-8597

Marcy Lindheimer is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm and a musician. In addition to teaching voice and the Feldenkrais Method®, she is an Assistant Trainer for Guild-certified Trainings and is on the Historical Performance faculty at the Mannes College of Music. Marcy specializes in working with musicians and with children who have cerebral palsy, autism, fragile X syndrome, attention deficit disorder and various other neurological difficulties.

Dianne Johnson, Office Manager
(212) 362-8597

Bob Etherington
T'ai Chi Teacher
Anat Baniel Method for Childrencm
(212) 426-4646 or (917) 843-1265
ATM Classes: Tues 12:30 & 7 pm

Barbara Forbes
Dance/Movement Teacher
(212) 663-2875
ATM Classes: Mon 12:30, 7 & 8 pm

Barbara Forbes is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm and dancer. Her thirty years of experience as a ballet mistress and teacher have included work with The Joffrey Ballet Company, The Alvin Ailey School and the National Ballet of Canada School. Barbara works with people who have a variety of different interests in increasing their awareness through movement, and she is on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College.
Click here for an article by Barbara that appeared in the September 2006 issue of Dance Magazine.

Scott Fraser, MA
(212) 222-5005
ATM Classes: Thur 12:30 pm & 7 pm

Rebecca Gardiner
Anat Baniel Method Practitionercm
Guild-Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm
Anat Baniel Method for Childrencm
Anat Baniel Method for Vitality and Anti-Agingcm
(212) 736-3331
ATM Classes: Sat 11 am

Rebecca Gardiner is certified in both Feldenkrais and the Anat Baniel Methods cm and works with infants as young as 8 months and adults as old as 93 years. She has a professional ballet background, is past president of the lyengar Yoga Association, and in 2006 organized an advanced training program certifying 60 Feldenkrais® practitioners in The Anat Baniel Method for Childrencm, a highly acclaimed method for children with neurological difficulties. Rebecca is the co-director, with Marcy Lindheimer, of ACCESS: Functional Movement for Children with Special Needs, a nonprofit organization that directs funds from contributors to sponsor lessons for children who will benefit from this work. She lives in Manhattan with her family.
www.learningfrommovement.com

Merry Muraskin*
Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm
Ph.D. in Anthropology
(212) 876-0126

With an interest in cultural change and experience as a psychotherapist, Merry's primary focus is developing ways to transfer learning from FELDENKRAIS lessons into relationships and daily life. She integrates into her work the discoveries of Eugene Gendlin, who studied how intuition arises in the body.

Sharon Oliensis
Performing Artists
Anat Baniel Method for Childrencm
Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm
(212) 726-0504 #3
ATM Classes: Wed 12:30 pm

Sharon began studying the Feldenkrais Method® in 1987 as a professional dancer. In 1993, she became a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm, and has been teaching group classes and private lessons in the Feldenkrais Method® ever since. Her clients have included the New York Times, Time Warner, and the Peninsula Spa, to name a few. She maintains a private practice in Manhattan and Brooklyn in which she works with a wide variety of clients, including: performing artists, people suffering from a variety of chronic pain syndromes, and individuals experiencing stress and injury-related pain.
www.SharonO.biz

Julia Pak
Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm
Anat Baniel Method for Childrencm
Anat Baniel Method for Vitality and Anti-Agingcm
(917) 742-6136
ATM Classes: Wed 7 pm

Julia came to the Feldenkrais Method® with a background in mountaineering, skiing, and rock climbing. Her appetite for adventure accompanied her in many transitions in her personal and professional life, which included changing continents, countries, cities, languages, and career directions. Julia has successfully worked in the corporate world for the last 10 years as an Information Systems analyst and is happily transitioning to teaching the Feldenkrais Method® full time.
      Julia is passionate about working with people who want to know themselves better, overcome neuromuscular difficulties and imbalances, or learn how to move with greater ease and efficiency. She is particularly devoted to assisting children with developmental issues and continues her study with the leading practitioners in the field.
      Julia maintains a private practice at her studio on the Upper West Side and speaks fluent Russian.

Harold Rosenthal
Physical Therapist
FI Lessons by Appointment Only
(212) 304-4467

Kathy Yates
Anat Baniel Method for Childrencm
(212) 989-8668
ATM Classes: Fri 12:30 pm

Kathy Yates is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm with experience teaching students of all ages with a range of challenges including chronic pain, neurological issues, anxiety, breathing and voice. She has worked in the field of movement and voice for over 25 years as a performer and teacher. Kathy is Program Director of One Little Step in Glassboro, NJ, an organization specializing in lessons for children with special needs. Kathy works closely with Cassandra Medley in the Writers Gym®. She has studied Kinesthetic Anatomy with Irene Dowd and is a Reiki II practitioner. "One of my greatest pleasures is to guide students in discovering new strategies for dealing with challenges and seeing them enjoy the process!"

*adjunct faculty