I qualified as a Feldenkrais Practitioner in 2007 and became an Assistant Trainer in 2021. I have a busy general practice in North London, working with everyone from young children to seniors from many different walks of life. I discovered the Feldenkrais Method over 30 years ago studying movement and performance in Paris with Monika Pagnuex. I will never forget the experience. It was like being plugged in: I could really feel what I was doing for what seemed like the first time. And I discovered the pleasure in moving and doing the simplest things — just for its own sake. Every lesson felt like a little piece of magic.
I was an actor and theatre maker for the next 20 years, and then in my early 30s I tore the cartiledge in my knee, and even after an operation and physio it wasn’t until I immersed myself in the Professional Feldenkrais Training in Sussex that I realised how much movement I had been losing ‘around the edges’. I had no idea I wasn’t standing on my right leg much or using it, that I couldn’t really run or even get up and down from the floor as easily as I once could. I had begun to accept myself as someone ”with a bad knee”. During that time it all came flooding back. My knee recovered fully along with a pretty total shift in how I could feel and move. I remember spending hours jumping about with my two year old on the grass after a day of training — just because it felt so good. And now decades later, I love running barefoot and train in karate (I’m a 2nd dan black belt in traditional Okinawan Goju Ryu karate)
Alongside my main general practice, I uses the Feldenkrais Method to coach professional actors. My book ‘Feldenkrais for Actors’ was published by Nick Hern Books in 2016 and has so far been translated into Italian and Korean!