Teachers in North America

University of Ottawa Musicians' Wellness Centre, Active member of   the University of Ottawa Music and Health Research Institute, Canada

Professor  Emeritus of Dance, University of Quebec in Montreal.  Member of the  Association Feldenkrais Quebec, the International Somatic   Movement  Education and Therapy Association, and the International   Association of  Dance and Medicine.

Graduate from the École de Danse de Québec. Floorflow certification from Marlo Fisken. Member of Association Feldenkrais Quebec.

Tango dancer and teacher at Studio Tango in Montreal. Teaches  Feldenkrais Method at Schulich School of Music, at McGill University.  Member of L’Association Feldenkrais Québec.

Mary is an experimental choreographer, performance artist, videographer, and the director of the Mary Armentrout Dance Theater, and San Francisco-based intermedia collective that has presented at performance venues across the Bay Area and at festivals throughout the US. She has been visiting artist at universities throughout the US and UK, and at Beijing Normal University and Daijin Sports University. BA from Sarah Lawrence College, concentrating on dance and philosophy.

Professional drummer, teacher and martial artist in the Atlanta area. Founder of DrumMoves integrating the Feldenkrais Method with learning drumming. Works with athletes, musicians, yogis, and dancers.

Director of the School of Theatre, Film & Television at the  University of Arizona, Previously Professor of Movement, Voice  and Acting in the MFA Performance program at Penn State University, Director of the Arts and Design Research Incubator at Penn State, and Founding Artistic Director of The Gravity Project. Presents tutorials,  master classes, and workshops for professional actors. A Master Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®.

MFA at Mills College in Oakland. Lecturer in the dance program at Humboldt State University where she developed "Bodyworks," Dance 352. She also teaches at College of the Redwoods, HealthSport, and at the Dancenter in Arcata, California.

Professional violinist who has worked with musicians at the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and Berklee College of Music. Graduate study the Longy School of Music of Bard College. Teaches in Boston and Montpelier, and the “Somatic Musicians’ Lab” in Jamaica Plain, NY. Also teaches the Suzuki Method.

Founder and Lead Instructor of the Emotional Body® method, Professor of Drama & Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of North Carolina, Asheville

Workshop at Cal Poly Humboldt with Karen Davy, Lecturer in Music at Cal Poly Humboldt

Associate Professor of Dance and the Chair of the M.F.A. in Dance program at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Teaches DANCE 624 and 724: Feldenkrais for Performers at M.F.A. in Dance program at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Feldenkrais Performing Arts Summit, Rice University Recreation and Wellness Center, Shepherd School of Music.  Violin and Viola at Lone Star College Community College Former violin/viola professor at Sam Houston State University 

Associate professor of Drama at University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Formerly, Chair of Voice and Speech program at Herbert Bergof Studio; Assistant Professor at Purchase College Conservatory; and at Tepper Program at Syracuse University in NYC. Coaching work includes, The Hangar Theater, Triad Stage, NC Symphony, and Zachery Scott Theater. Received an M.F.A. in Acting from Rutgers University. Linklater Designation and Colaianni Speech certification.

Contralto in medieval to modern music. Performed and recorded with Boston Camerata, Sequentia, Waverly Consort, and Joshua Rifkin’s Bach Ensemble. Founder and director of Vajra Voices. Premiered works by leading composers. Taught at Swarthmore College, Princeton University, Sonoma State University, the Thornton School of Music at University of Southern California, and UC Berkeley. Received MM and BM degrees from Indiana University.

Dance instruction. teaches musicians and dancers at her private studio in Seattle. 20 years professional career as a dancer, choreographer, and dance theater. Assistant Trainer of the Feldenkrais Method.

Teaches piano, producer of YouTube Channel TruerMU. Authored books and articles on the Feldenkrais Method. Teaches at The Willow School, Georgia. BA from Oberlin College, BM from Georgia State University, and MM from Georgia State University

Early music and opera tenor,  Developed VOCAL INTEGRATION with the Feldenkrais Method. California. Trainer in Feldenkrais Method. 

Vocalist, founder and director here at Flight Performing Arts. Serving on the faculty at Ithaca College, the Community School of Music and Arts, and guest lecturer at Cornell University. Holds a BMu from Ithaca College in vocal performance and sociology with a minor in theater.

Background in dance. Teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Music 360 Wellness Initiative: MUGN 380/480 Feldenkrais Method: Awareness/Movement.

Dancer, Director and Founder of Feldenkrais for the Arts in NYC. Founded of Messenger Theatre Company. MFA from the University of California, Davis; BA from Sarah Lawrence College. 

Vocalist and teacher in NYC. Taught at the Lindemann program at the Metropolitan Opera. Works with singers at Marlena Malas’s voice program in the Special Studies Program at Chautauqua Institution. Guest lecturer at Respiro Opera, NYC. Presented workshops at Duke University, UNC at Greensboro North Carolina and Rutgers University. Works with singers, musicians, actors and performers in NYC. Received BME and MM from SUNY at Fredonia, Received a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship.

Jazz Bassist in Chicago. Works with musicians and children, also trained in Child’Space.

Co-artistic director of The Elsewhere Ensemble, Worked with students and graduates from the Paris and Lyon Conservatories, the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music and the CUNY Graduate Center. Taught violin at  National Conservatory of Reims – CRR, the National Conservatories of Verseilles (CRR), Rueil-Malmaison (CRR),  Conservatory of Orsay, and the Great Neck Music Conservatory. Resides in Eugene, Oregon

Multi-Genre Saxophonist. Northern Illinois University Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus. Sony/Columbia recording artist. Premiered and recorded solo works in computer music and new music. Innovated saxophone and jazz pedagogy. Taught Feldenkrais Method classes in Music, Theater and Dance at Northern Illinois University; MUSC 464/565 and TH-D 464/564. Received BM and MM from the University of North Texas. Resides in the Chicago area.

Teaches at The Theater School at DePaul University in Chicago. Directed and choreographed dances, movement and combat in 30+ productions at theatres in Chicago, Dallas, and Ft. Worth including, including Remy Bumppo Theatre; the Dallas Theatre Center, and Stage #1. As a professional actress worked at Steppenwolf Theatre, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, in Chicago and regional theatres and Shakespeare Festivals.  Also teaches Alexander Technique. MFA Southern Methodist University. 

Senior Lecturer at Vassar College . Countertenor specializing in early music, especially works by Handel.  Member of ensembles including Ensemble V/I, TREFOIL, and The Newberry Consort. Performed with opera companies including Boston, Brussels, and Wolf Trap. Worked with early music ensembles, including Les Arts Florissants and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Co-founder and artistic director of Boston Midsummer Opera. BS from Indiana University. Diploma from Hochschule der Musik, Vienna.

Clarinetist, performances with The Pacific Arts Woodwind Quintet, Urban Nocturnes, The Phoenix Symphony, Arizona Opera and Carmel Bach Festival. Adjunct Music and Feldenkrais Instructor at Glendale Community College and Phoenix College Teaching at California State University, Stanislaus and Phoenix College; Clarinet Instructor at California State University, Stanislaus. MM in Clarinet at Arizona State University. Founder of Musicians' International Group for Somatic Education.

Professor Emeritus of Dance, State University of New York. Teaching fellow at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo and at the University of Baroda in India.

Founding director of Eastwest Somatics Institute 

Tenor, baroque and renaissance music. Worked with dancers from the NYC Ballet, American Ballet Theater, and other music groups and theater productions.  Faculty at the Feldenkrais Learning Center. Developed pedagogy for piano.

Dancer, choreographer. Taught classes that integrate movement and language at Rice University, The C. G. Jung Center, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, the Jewish Community Center, and in H.I.S.D.

DAM Performance - Viola. Works with musicians.

Professional dancer in Rotterdam’s Dansacademie, Holland; Cunningham Studio, NYC, Trisha Brown Co, Stephen Petronio. Founder of SmartMoves/Feldenkrais, Hawaii.

Pianist. Marlboro Music Festival, Doctoral PT program of SUNY Stoneybrook Medical School, for musicians in the Manhattan School of Music's wellness program.

Holds BS from Indiana University, MM from Ithaca College, and a MA in Communication Disorders from Northwestern University. Received the Pan American Voice Association’s Recognized Vocologist designation. Taught voice at Cornell University, Syracuse University, and in the Theater School at DePaul University Chicago, and the Steppenwolf Theater Company summer. Speech pathologist at The Voice Institute, Loyola Medical Center, the Bastian Voice Institute, and the University of Chicago Voice Center.

Teaches voice and speech at The Theatre School at DePaul University. Worked as vocal coach for Shakespeare on the Green’s and Disney Productions. Directed several plays for The Theatre School. MFA from Goodman School of Drama (Now The Theatre School at DePaul).

Professional dancer in NYC for 11 years, former senior company member of Sarah Skaggs Dance. Focuses on running and Feldenkrais Method.

Director of the Feldenkrais© School of Acting, member of the Living Theatre for more than 20 years, performed for 10 years with Theater for the New City's Street TheateR.

UCLA Associate Professor, Vice Chair of Graduate Affairs - M.F.A. in Choreographic Inquiry, offers courses where the Feldenkrais Method is integrated into the curriculum.

Physical Therapist.  Teaches at Cleveland Institute of Music, 360 Wellness Faculty, Conservatory, MUGN 380/480 Feldenkrais Method: Awareness/Movement

Professional Dancer and dance teacher, Faculty at Dance and Movement Arts at Isidore Newman School.

Danced professionally in Germany with the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen, Freiburger Tanztheater in Freiburg, Breisgau, and with Tanzforum at the Metropolitan Opera in Cologne. Instructor at Belhaven University in Jackson, MS, Sangre de Cristo Art Center in Pueblo, CO, Arts Immersion Charter School in Denver, CO, and Dance Arts Los Alamos, NM. Teaching at the Northwest Arkansas Ballet Theatre.

Singer and improvisation. Workshops combining Vocal Improv & Feldenkrais Method in Connecticut.

Trained in dance. Founder and Director of Kinesthetic  Edge in Massachusetts. 

BFA in Dance from University of Texas at Austin. Teaches at Austin Feldenkrais and Ballet Austin.

Faculty member Danced with Mariinsky Ballet, Miami City Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre.  Faculty member at American Ballet Theatre's JKO School, SLK Ballet, and Alvin Ailey. Founder, Artistic, and Executive Director of iDEA in Movement workshop series.

Oboe instructor at Reed College and Willamette University in Oregon. Orchestre Symphonique de Longueuil, all with Oregon Symphony, Oregon Ballet Theatre Orchestra, Portland Opera Orchestra, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal. Improviser and performs new music. 

Founder and Executive Director of Human Nature Studio and Human Nature Dance Theatre, Member of Daily Improvement Collective.

Professor of Kinesiology at Towson University teaching dance, motor development and learning: KNES 341 Concepts of Motor Learning

KNES 426 Motor Development: Infants to Adults. Somatics for Dancers Balance and Gait Assessment Movement Disorders.

Ithaca College, Professor Emerita, Music Performance in New York. where she taught MUMC 41000 Feldenkrais (NLA). 

Former Assistant Professor of Dance at the American University and the University of Maryland, College Park: DNCE-118 Somatic Forms, DNCE-365 Principles of Movement. Private Practice, Musicians, singers, dancers, actors.

Vocal and dramatic performance of baroque music. Senior Lecturer in Music at Vassar College, New York. Directs Vassar Opera Workshop and conducts the Vassar Madrigal Singers. Teaches at Amherst Early Music Institute. Sang leading roles in the opera houses of Brussels, Toulouse, Boston,  Washington, Santa Fe, BAM, Wolf Trap, Glimmerglass, Nice, Marseilles.

Former director of Artistic Director at the Fort Wayne Dance Collective, Indiana. Multiple awards including; Fellowships from Arts United,  Gene Wyall Award, John Endwright Distinguished Alumni Service Award. Stanley Liddell Award, and Arts United of Greater - Lifetime Achievement Award.

Pianist. Teaches at Piano Studio of Katy O’Rourke. Formerly at Davidson Institute, Bellingham Academy of Music, Mojo School of Music, and Hillcrest Kids.

Studied at The Commedia School in Sweden and in Paris at the L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. Founded the Donati &Olesen Company.Awarded the Teatro del Sacro prize. Taculty at N.Y.U. Tisch School of Dance;  Commedia Dell’Arte in Florence, Italy.

Faculty at Sonoma State University Department of Theater and Dance. Company member of the Medical Clown Project and of Playground. Work with Make A Circus, Splash Circus Theatre, Prescott Circus, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, San Francisco Circus Center, Bay Area Children's Theatre, Foolsfury, Antenna Theatre, Golden Thread, and the San Francisco Playwright's Foundation.

Associate Professor, Music Education, Choral Conductor, University of Massachusetts - Amherst.Presented at  International Symposium on Performance Science (Kyoto, Japan), The Phenomenon of Singing International Symposium (St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada), and at American Choral Directors Association National and Eastern Division Conferences.

Served as President of the Massachusetts chapter for the American Choral Directors Association.

Faculty at Movement Research, The New School's Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts and teaches internationally. Past teaching includes, the American Dance Festival, Dance New Amsterdam, former Trisha Brown Studio, Movement Research, Barnard College, Princeton University, Tisch NYU, University of California Irvine, SEAD, Tanzquartier Wien and the Danish Conservatory for the Performing Arts.

Flute instructor at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and Mills College, and teaches baroque flute at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.  Presented Awareness through Movement workshops at the San Francisco Conservatory, the California College of the Arts, the Northern California Flute Camp, and the National Flute Association annual convention. Tauchg Feldenkrais classes for the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony.

Visiting artist in dance at Hampshire College, Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Bennington College, North Carolina School of the Arts, Wake Forest University, the Hartt School, and Springfield College. Performed and taught as member of the New York City-based Doug Elkins Dance Company. Performed with The Chamber Dance Company, David Neumann, and Wire Monkey Dance.

National Endowment of the Arts Fellow at American Dance Festival, Gary Parks Award from the Dance Critics Association. Scholar in Residence at Jacob's Pillow, taught at Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. 

Worked as an actor with Jerzy Grotowski and Paul Sills. Trainer in the Feldenkrais Method. Directed/co-directed trainings in the United States, Australia, and Europe. Currently educational Director in Brussels, Belgium; Aurillac, France and Santa Fe, New Mexico where he resides. 

Teaches Baroque cello and viola da gamba at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she is co-director of the Baroque Orchestra.  Member of the American Bach Soloists, Voices of Music, and Wildcat Viols. Appeared with baroque orchestras and festivals throughout the US. Taught Feldenkrais Method with musicians from the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and the American Bach Soloists.

Danced with Martha Graham Dance Company, Pearl Lang Dance Theatre, Moving People Dance, Catherine Cabeen and Company, and Robert Wood Dance NY. Moved to Santa Fe, New Mexicon area to focus on creating her  work and teaching.

Background in music. Taught Feldenkrais Method to young choral singers at the KONY Sings,at Manhattanville College, the Brooklyn Conservatory, and practitioner in residence at Yale University’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Guest teacher at Manhattan School of Music.

Graduate degreeGuitarist in Chicago area. Teaches guitar and music theory at Joliet Community College in Illinois. Maintains private studio in music and Feldenkrais Method.

A David G. Frey Fellow/Assistant Professor of Voice & Speech at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Resident Vocal Coach with PlayMakers Repertory Company. Works regionally and internationally as a voice, text, dialect and somatic coach with: Prague Shakespeare Company in the Czech Republic, Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble in Australia, and in the U.S. at theatres including Shakespeare & Company (7 seasons), Oxford Shakespeare Festival, Atlantic Stage, Frank Theatre, Cheap Theatre and more.

BA in composition, also studied voice and dance. Taught Feldenkrais Method at Women’s Somatic Wellness program, Stanford University, and Healthwell Physical Therapy, Kaiser Health Education San Francisco, the Feldenkrais Center for Movement and Awareness, and Poto.

DVIDA® Certified Ballroom Dance Instructor. Founder and owner of “Dance with Brandee” and Feldenkrais Method at “Curiosity in Motion” in Oakland California.

Rehearsal Director at the GöteborgsOperans Danskompani. Choreographed for the National Theatre of London; the Shakespeare Theatre Company; Mouvement Perpetuel, co-created works with the Cirque Du Soleil; the National Ballet of Canada and Ballet BC. Performed with Compagnie Marie Chouinard, Compagnie Flak and the DanceOn Ensemble, Berlin and has taught at leading schools throughout Europe, Canada and the USA. Resides in California.

Trainer in the  Feldenkrais Method, teaching in professional training programs in the US, South America, Canada, Asia and Europe. Faculty at the College of Santa Fe for 17 years, teaching applied movement in the theater, dance, music and physical education departments.

Trainer in the Feldenkrais Method and educational director in  professional training programs worldwide. Master’s Degree in Piano Performance from the University of Southern California. Worked with musicians at San Francisco Opera Orchestra, U.C. Berkeley, U.C. San Francisco, Boston University, McGill University, State University of New York, and the Tanglewood Music Center. Also taught the Feldenkrais Method at the San Francisco Symphony’s Prevention & Wellness Program.

MFA in Choreography and Performance from Smith College. Adjunct Professor of Instruction at Dance Center of Columbia College. Teaches  Choreography, Dance Technique, Somatic Education and The Feldenkrais Method and at Dovetail Studios and Northwest Ballet Academy. Former Associate Artistic Director of Zephyr Dance, Her her work has been performed around the US.

Classically trained pianist. Guild Certified Feldenkrais Trainer, teaching at professional trainings in US, Europe, Israel, and Brazil. Taught Feldenkrais classes at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and the Mannes College of Music in NYC. Is in residence at the Yellow Barn and Marlboro music festivals.

Faculty member of Movement Research. Taught Feldenkrais at the Feldenkrais Learning Center, New York Universsity, Barnard College, SAGE and the Contemporary Body Practices course at Hollins Dance MFA summer program. Professional dancer in NYC, received a Bessie Aware (New York Dance and Performance Award).

Former member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and faculty chair of the Merce Cunningham School. Danced in the companies of Lucinda Childs and Manuel Alum. Currently at the Field Center for Children's Integrated Development, Stanford University residency. Staged Cunningham dances dance companies and schools including projects with the Ballet de Lorraine, New York Theatre Ballet, Conservatoire de Paris, Stanford University, at the Lyon Opera Ballet Company. M.F.A from University of Michigan.

Master’s degree in Vocal Performance, Western University. Taught singing, speech, movement, and acting at Fanshawe College’s Theatre Arts Department, London, Ontario and voice at Vancouver Academy of Music. Taught Feldenkrais Method at the Stratford Festival of Canada, Feldenkrais and acting technique at Vancouver Academy of Music and at the University of British Columbia’s Opera Division. Assistant conductor at Queen’s University Wind Ensemble and with Cantabile Choirs of Kingston.

Professor of Voice at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Director of music at Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts, director of the New England Conservatory-Walnut Hill program and former teaching staff member of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute's Young Artists Vocal Program and at the Boston University College of Fine Arts. Masters in Music degree from Boston University.

Has performed with Rochester Symphony Orchestra (MI), Holland Symphony Orchestra (MI), Muncie Symphony Orchestra, and East Central Indiana Chamber Orchestra. Taught Feldenkrais workshops for musicians at Brevard Music Center Summer Institute & Festival, The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. MM in Bassoon Performance, Ball State University, Indiana.

MA in Linguistics, City University of New York, Graduate Center; MA in Professional Voice Practice, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Visiting Assistant Professor of Voice & Speech at University of Central Florida: School of Performing Arts - Theater. Taught at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. NYC production coaching with The Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Page73, Hudson Stage Company, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and Royal Shakespeare Company Brett Goldin Bursary.

Conducts the Early Music Ensemble at the University of Chicago and teaches Baroque Performance Practices at Northwestern University. Founder and Artistic Director of Haymarket Opera Company. As cellist and violist da gamba performed with Second City Musick, the Chicago Symphony, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Opera Theater, Music of the Baroque, the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society, and others. Founding member of the Fry Street String Quartet. Founded the Feldenkrais® Center of Chicago.

DMA in Piano Performance at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati. Has performed in perform in the Czech Republic, Japan, the USA, Canada and other countries. Trained in Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Method, Tai-chi Taichi, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. 

Professor Emeritus University of Wisconsin - Madison. Performed cello recitalist, soloist, and chamber player across the United States, Europe, Far East, South America, and Israel. Principal cellist, Israel Sinfonietta, and founding member of Sol-La-Re String Quartet. Founder/artistic director of the National Summer Cello Institute. Presented workshops, seminars, and master classes at major music schools and summer music festivals. Creator of “Your Body is Your Strad.”456789012345678901234567890

New York City and Washington DC based Feldenkrais Method teacher and dancer nominated for two New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" awards and featured in ArtForum, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and more.

Founding member of Stephanie Skura and Company. Danced and her work has been presented  throughout US and Europe. Recipient of grants and awards from New York Foundation for the Arts in Video, NEA and New York State Council on the Arts. Former dance professor at Queens College and visiting professor at Long Island University, Temple University and Empire State College. MFA from The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 

Assistant Trainer in the Feldenkrais Method. Dance career in NYC includes Jumpstart Co., Beth Cachet Dance Co. and Choreographers' Showcases. Taught at Joffrey Ballet; Union County College, NJ; workshops for children at inner city schools, NYC; former faculty member at Bette Winslow Dance Studio in Taos, NM. Presents Feldenkrais®/Dance workshops at schools and conferences throughout US and in Canada. Maintains studio in Taos, NM.

Former dancer, Masters degree in Physical Therapy from Columbia University School of Physicians and Surgeons. Former clinical director at Sports Training Institute in New York City and adjunct professor at CUNY. Taught workshops for dancers at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, Belgium worked with dancers from Mark Morris, Paul Taylor, Rosas, Meg Stuart, Joffrey, and Ballet Frankfurt. Former owner of Physical Therapy Arts in Soho. Currently practices at Feldenkrais Healing and Movement Arts in Hudson, NY.