Performing Artist  ●  Acting Teacher  ●  Feldenkrais Practitioner

Mindful Movement, Hands-On Healing: Feldenkrais in San Francisco

Ease chronic pain. Improve your posture and balance. Reduce stress. Experience freedom from limitations.

“Make the impossible possible,

the possible easy,

and the easy elegant.”

— Moshé Feldenkrais

What is Feldenkrais?

The Feldenkrais Method® is somatic education that teaches you how to heal and change through movement and hands-on healing.


The benefits are profound:

  • Recover from injury and eradicate chronic pain

  • Improve posture, balance, and coordination

  • Reduce stress, TMJ, and PTSD symptoms

  • Fine-tune your performance in sports, arts, and daily life

  • Enhance self-awareness and ease of being

Rather than "fixing you," the Feldenkrais Method teaches you "how to fish."

I help clients become self-reliant, informed, and independent through increased awareness and understanding. You become more aware of what you do and how you do it.

As Moshé Feldenkrais said, "Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so."

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Who is this for?

For anyone who suspects there's more range available: in movement, in expression, in life.

  • The curious mover who suspects movement can feel better than this

  • The dancer, performer, or athlete who has lost their ease and flow

  • Anyone carrying pain so familiar it's become background noise

How I work with you

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Private Sessions

In a private lesson, called Functional Integration, I work with you through gentle, non-invasive touch, the primary language of this work.

  • You lie on a table, fully clothed in something comfortable

  • Personalized Learning: Each 75-minute session is specific to you: what you're carrying, what you're curious about, what wants to change

  • Immediate Benefits: Pain reduces, posture improves, and movement that felt stuck begins to open up

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An Integrated Approach

Movement + Expression + Learning

As an educator, theater director, and performance artist for over 20 years, I bring a unique perspective to Feldenkrais. My background is rooted in the relationship between perception, movement, learning, and expression.

I began my Feldenkrais training in 2009, informed by extensive practice in somatic movement, dance, and voice—including a Fulbright Fellowship in Poland focusing on embodied movement.

This integrated approach is especially powerful for performers, artists, and anyone interested in the connection between how we move and how we express ourselves.

I work with curious people who want to improve their function, whether for daily ease or peak performance in the arts.

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What clients are saying

  • "Her approach has helped me with injuries, stress, and effects of early trauma so that I live a pain free life at 71 after many years of demanding physical work. Heidi is a gifted Feldenkrais practitioner who I have had the good fortune to work with for over a year."

    —Rebecca Madrone

  • "When I got home I turned my neck to the left (which had the most tightness and smallest range of motion) and it had an increased range of motion with less tightness…On our walk yesterday I turned my head to the right to look at my husband at an angle I haven't been able to move it there without pain for months. It was a fluid movement without pain…and it made me happy!"

    —Leslie Cardiasmenos

  • "It was a very good experience to have a Feldenkrais lesson. I think it worked very well for me and I felt lighter in a way and slept very well. My back pain is almost gone."

    —Hanne Gaardsting

  • "I felt mentally so much more peaceful and in significantly less physical pain…I felt that I almost just magically and naturally enjoyed a much better perspective that I had not enjoyed for quite some time…I am just so grateful to have the relief as long as I did and perhaps more importantly the genuine hope I experienced that this may be a very viable solution for my body and perhaps a tipping point of all my efforts is much closer than I think!"

    —Sarah Grace Juram

Stop compensating and start expressing.

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