LIFELONG MOVEMENT
  Grow Your Potential Through Touch, Movement and Play
For Babies and Adults

With a growing interest in teaching children, after finishing my undergraduate degree in dance, I earned an MS in Early Childhood and Elementary Education. I did much of my student teaching and research around the relationship between movement and learning. I studied with a movement specialist in a K-6 public school in East Harlem, created movement learning games and wrote my final thesis  "Movement In The Classroom." Afterward when I attended the 92ndStY Dance Education Laboratory we focused specifically on ways to integrate dance and movement into classroom curricula. For the next 15 years, I taught dance/movement in both public and private schools in NYC and the Hudson Valley. I focused on teaching literacy skills and developed "Story Dance Theatre" which used story and Rudolf Laban-based dance principles to help children explore and create their own movement sentences and tell their own stories.  While attending a conference in 2005, I experienced the Feldenkrais Method® and decided to deepen my understanding of how children learn to move from birth.  I entered a 4 year Feldenkrais Training Program in NYC and was immediately enthralled.  While my intention was to return to teaching children upon graduation and apply what I learned in the Feldenkrais Training, I took a 10 year detour and gave Feldenkrais lessons to adult seniors and the elderly. I discovered that the way people experience movement as infants influences how they move throughout the rest of their lives. Now, after more than 40 years of being a teacher and hands-on practitioner, I am very excited to combine all of my experience to help people, regardless of age or stage in life, to learn and grow into skillful movers. Currently I am continuing my studies with The Child'Space Method (see below) and will be certified to call myself a Child'Space Practitioner in October of 2022.