Find a Teacher
The following Feldenkrais teachers are members of the Feldenkrais Guild of North America (FGNA) and live and work in the Hudson Valley of New York. You can view a list of classes here, but you may also want to contact an individual teacher below to find our if there are additional classes near you. And if you don't live in the Hudson Valley but want to find a teacher near you, check here.
By Location
Campbell Hall: Beth Stewart
Garrison: Mary Newell
Hastings-on-Hudson: Doron Todmor
Hudson: Leigh Scott
Hudson: Frania Zins
Kingston: Katie Bull
Narrowsburg (near Port Jervis): Eric de Rolland
New Paltz: Connie Rotunda
New Paltz: Mark Hirschfield
Poughkeepsie: Carolyn Palmer
Rhinebeck: Margaret Pierpont
Red Hook: Marina Michahelles
Stone Ridge: Drew Minter
Troy: Buffy Owens
Westchester County: Patricia Wahl
Woodstock: Zahava Wilson
By Name
Katie Bull
Kingston, New York
Katie Bull is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (NY8) . She was first introduced to Feldenkrais in 1978 via her mentor Feldenkrais practitioner Bob Chopra. She is a professional vocal production coach with over 30 years of professional experience coaching the speaking voice and singing on Broadway and off-Broadway, as well as in television and film. She has been Head of Vocal Production for the Atlantic Theater Company Acting Studio since 2004 and Senior Master Teacher of Voice for NYU/Tisch Atlantic Studio since 1999. Katie is a Fitzmaurice Voicework© Certified Associate Teacher and a jazz vocalist and composer with multiple recordings featuring her band The Katie Bull Group Project.
Learn more at: https://www.katiebull.com/
Mark Hirschfield
New Paltz, New York
Mark has been practicing Feldenkrais for over 20 years. He currently practices in New Paltz, New York, and offers classes online. He has helped clients with a myriad of issues ranging from neck, back, hip, knee, ankle and shoulder pain to eye strain and neurological problems. Adept at utilizing the mind-body connection inherent to the Feldenkrais Method, he has aided those recovering from grief, trauma, and abuse, especially when those life events are manifesting completely or in part as physical pain. He is also experienced at assisting clients with improving their walking mechanics.
Learn more at: https://feldenkraisworks.com/
Marina Michahelles
Red Hook, New York
Marina Michahelles is a flower farmer and Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner who offers Awareness Through Movement via zoom. Marina works with people of any age and ability, but is currently in training to work with children, particularly those with physical and developmental difficulties.
Contact Marina: marina.feldenkrais@gmail.com
Learn more at: https://www.facebook.com/MarinaMichahellesFeldenkrais/
Drew Minter
Stone Ridge, New York
Drew Minter is an authorized Awareness Through Movement® teacher. As an internationally known countertenor for four decades, Drew sang leading roles in the opera houses of Brussels, Toulouse, Boston, Washington, Santa Fe, BAM, Wolf Trap, Glimmerglass, Nice, and Marseilles, performing with many of the world's foremost baroque orchestras, and making over 70 recordings. He has been a senior music director at Vassar College since 1999. He incorporates the Feldenkrais Method and the Alexander Technique, and the Viewpoints acting technique into his teaching. He is also trained in Polarity, Kahuna work and Body Electric.
Contact Drew: 914-456-1764 or drewminter@verizon.net
Mary Newell
Garrison, New York
Mary Newell, PhD, is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner who offers individual sessions and workshops at her studio in Garrison, New York. She assists clients in achieving their life goals with less stress, pain, and stiffness, better coordination, balance, and expressive range. She works with a range of clients, from those with chronic back, neck, or neurological issues to those seeking to refine musical, athletic, or performance skills. She has taught at various locations, including The Garrison Institute and the New York Open Center.
Contact Mary: mnewell4@gmail.com
Learn more at: https://flexible-comfort.weebly.com/
Buffy Owens
Troy, New York
Buffy Owens is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner® and Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach with a steadfast passion for helping folks move beyond pain and into a life that fills them up from the inside, out!
Most of the people that I work with have been suffering from complex pain for so long that the idea of getting back to living a life they love seems impossible. I help them to gain the knowledge, skill, and awareness that's necessary to shift from a life of suffering to one of meaning and joy.
Contact Buffy: buffy@consciousmovements.com
Learn more at: consciousmovements.com
Carolyn Palmer
Poughkeepsie, New York
Carolyn Palmer is a developmental psychologist, professor at Vassar College, Child'Space teacher, and Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner in Poughkeepsie, New York. She facilitates easier movement and development with infants, children, and adults. Carolyn also helps parents find enjoyable ways to support their child's development.
Contact Carolyn: capalmer@vassar.edu or call/text 845-240-0132
Margaret Pierpont
Rhinebeck, New York
Margaret Pierpont, a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, offers Awareness Through Movement in the Rhinebeck area. She teaches through the Lifetime Learning Institute at Bard College and and offers her own classes and private lessons on Zoom. She has had a life-long interest in movement, relaxation, and the mind-body connection and extensive experience in dance, yoga, and meditation. She is particularly interested in helping people reduce stress and develop self-sufficiency as they negotiate the changes of aging.
Contact Margaret: mp.feldenkrais@gmail.com
Eric de Rolland
Pond Eddy, New York (near Port Jervis)
Eric de Rolland, a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, uses his background as an occupational therapist, martial artist, and mindfulness & meditation practitioner to create a movement program designed to improve function, manage and alleviate pain, and support well-being. Eric brings a focus and specificity that garners a student’s potential and optimal learning. Eric is highly interested in recent advancements in neuroplasticity studies, using this knowledge to further support students in their development. His experience includes serving individuals with pain and trauma, neurological disorders, traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries.
Contact Eric: ericderolland@gmail.com
Connie Rotunda
New Paltz, New York
Connie Rotunda has been a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner since 1999. She is a professor emerita of the theatre department at SUNY New Paltz. She has worked as a training program practitioner/organizer for the Feldenkrais Professional Training Program, and as a teacher at the Feldenkrais Insititute in New York City. She synergizes her Feldenkrais practice with her background as an actor, movement coach, director and intimacy coordinator. She is currently on the faculty and board of the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA). She offers private Feldenkrais lessons and group classes as well as developing and teaching workshops that weave the Feldenkrais Method with Chekhov Technique and the Viewpoints.
Contact Connie: rotundac@newpaltz.edu, info@connierotunda.com
Leigh Scott
Hudson, New York
As a Certified Feldenkrais and Child’Space Method Practitioner, Leigh offers a unique, strength-based approach supporting each developmental stage of a new baby, from birth to independent walking. After years as a parent educator and postpartum doula with hands-on experience handling hundreds of infants, Leigh has creatively combined the most ground-breaking somatic approaches to motor development with cutting edge social neuroscience. Her work includes functional integration for parents, babies, and their older siblings, especially if there was any birth related trauma.
Contact Leigh: leighmccoyscott@gmail.com
Learn more at: The Science of Babies
Beth Stewart
Campbell Hall, New York
Beth Stewart is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner who has been offering classes, workshops and private sessions Orange County in the Hudson Valley since 1999. She has a bachelor’s degree in physical education and worked for many years in human services before training in the Feldenkrais Method. Beth has also studied Aikido for 30 years, teaches at the Aikido School of Self Defense in Middletown, New York, and is a volunteer sailor with the Beacon Sloop Club.
Contact Beth: b.stewart1016@yahoo.com
Doron Todmor
Hastings on Hudson, NY
Doron has been practicing Feldenkrais for 17 years. He loves helping people discover their own unique, intelligent and intuitive way of being and moving. Doron teaches weekly online Zoom and in-person group classes, and works privately with people in Westchester County (Hastings-on-Hudson.) Doron's work focuses on the key concepts of improved skeletal alignment, the use of ground forces, free, well-organized, efficient movement, and the power of mindful, guided attention. He loves re-discovering the comfort and joy of movement with his clients and students daily.
Learn more at: flexible-brain.com
Patricia Wahl
Westchester County, New York
Patricia Wahl is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and certified yoga teacher who has a passion for teaching others how to find more ease in their movement and life. Teaching therapeutic- and awareness-based exercise for more than 25 years, she finds that the Feldenkrais Method's unique perspective offers a way of improving movement that creates long lasting results. Patricia teaches weekly classes, workshops, and individual Feldenkrais lessons.
Learn more at: wellmindedmovement.com
Zahava Wilson
West Hurley, New York
Zahava Wilson has been a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner since 1999 and in the Anat Baniel/Neuromovement Method for Children since 2005. She is a licensed physical therapist with a Masters of Science Degree from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Movement Studies from Hampshire College. Her specialty is in working with children, but her clients have included people of all ages with neurologic issues, chronic pain, musicians, dancers, athletes, and others who want to optimize themselves in their endeavors. Zahava loves to teach and gives workshops online and throughout the Hudson Valley community.
Contact Zahava: zahavawilson@gmail.com
Learn more at: Zahava Wilson Physical Therapy and on Facebook
Frania Zins
Hudson, New York
Frania Zins is a former dancer and physical therapist and a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner. In 2015 she relocated to the Hudson Valley from New York City. She has taught at NYU and CUNY physical therapy departments, and has led numerous workshops for healthcare practitioners, the public, and dancers. She currently works in Hudson and New York City.
Contact Frania: franianyc@gmail.com or 646-325-6293
Learn more at: feldenkrais-hudson.com