As I started to write this, I realized I’ve been a Feldenkrais® Practitioner for most of my life. I’ve been a trainer for more than a third of it. I love this work, the people I’ve met and helped, the students I’ve taught all around the world, and my colleagues who are so determined to make a difference in the world with the skills they’ve acquired at such great cost and personal sacrifice. What I learned from from Moshe changed my life and spreading it became much of my life.
After moving several times and starting over more times than I wanted to, I finally figured out how to build a practice. It isn’t hard, it’s just that it isn’t part of what I learned in my training — what need did Moshe have to build his practice by the time I knew him? I doubt it ever crossed his mind! And it never crossed my mind to ask for help from someone who knows how to do it until pretty late in my career.
It was so easy, I almost couldn’t believe it! I found that knowing Feldenkrais work gave me most of the skills I needed — I just needed to generalize them and change my thinking. And now that more than 90% of the people who come to me for a first lesson stick around for 10 lessons or more, I figure you might like to know how I do that… and how I get them there for that first lesson, too! I’ll tell you this — it doesn’t feel pushy or sleazy — it feels like me, only with a practice that allows me to serve as many people as I want to!
So here we are. Well, actually, I’m here on the pond you can see in many of the videos from the 90-day challenge, and you’re wherever you have an internet connection … but it doesn’t matter because all we really need to make something happen is a mutual interest and a desire to connect! So leave me a comment or a question, and let’s find out what kind of magic we can make together!
xo, Allison
