Welcome! I’m so glad you’re here.
My mission is to help you enjoy your day instead of just manage it.
When more natural movement patterns are internalized, your attention is free and your movements are spontaneous. You’ll be amazed at how chronic tensions resolve themselves without force.
By making changes where it counts—in your brain—you can improve sensory-motor intelligence, skill, and efficiency in movement. As you explore novel movement patterns you will improve your strategies for ease, balance, and coordination in everything you do.
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Transform muscular habits with gentle, floor-based classes. Reduce stress and tension as you explore new patterns. Join any time.
Resolve chronic pain and movement limitations with individual attention to your specific patterns. These gentle, hands-on private lessons include free audio for home.
Get immediate help to release stuck patterns with personalized feedback in a 45-minute zoom call.
“I love the clarity of the teaching, Zoe’s voice, the messages she puts in the lessons that help me grow. She teaches Feldenkrais as easily as breathing.”
“Just want to tell you how much I get out of the lessons. I haven’t felt this much ease in a long time. I also appreciate your sense of humor, which is a nice plus.”
“Quite a while ago, I found Zoe’s lessons and have been doing them regularly. I have done yoga and different sports from an early age, but after just a few of Zoe’s lessons, I felt like I was walking on air.”
“Zoe is a joy to work with. She is positive, funny, calming, and creative. She has brought a new perspective to my body and its patterns.”
How can Feldenkrais help?
“The aim is to organize the body to move with minimal effort and maximum efficiency, not through muscular strength, but increased awareness of how it works.”
Feldenkrais is suitable for anyone—young or old, physically challenged or physically fit—and is especially helpful for those suffering from backaches or muscle and joint pain as well as symptoms of stress and strain. It is also helpful for people with injuries, tendonitis, and repetitive strain injury (RSI).
Older people find that it helps them retain or regain their youthful flexibility and ability to move without strain or discomfort. You might be seeking to improve mobility, get out of pain, acquire self-knowledge, resolve trauma or anxiety, feel more comfortable in your body, or restore balance and stability.
The results include:
Increased sense of relaxation and well being
Relief from muscular tension and associated pain
Improved coordination and flexibility in everyday tasks
Reduced risk for injury
Full and easy breathing, leading to calmer states of mind
Personal growth and learning
Developed by judo master and physicist, Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, the Feldenkrais Method® is based on principles of physics, martial arts, biomechanics, and an understanding of learning and human development. Its effectiveness lies in its ability to access the nervous system's innate ability to learn.
For more background, see New to Feldenkrais in my blog, Vital Clarity.
“Zoe is a patient, gentle, non-judgmental, and insightful Feldenkrais practitioner. I recommend Zoe to anyone who wants to create a wiser, more relaxed, pain-free body!”
“I am an athlete and Zoe’s lessons give me relief from pain. She has an innate body awareness and a complete sensitivity to what I’m experiencing.”
“Feldenkrais lessons with Zoe are the best thing I ever did for my back pain. I learned movements that empowered me to solve my own problems.”
Feldenkrais is taught two ways:
Group classes in Awareness Through Movement® (ATM)
In group classes you learn not through muscular strength, but through increased awareness of how the body works. Lying on the floor, you are directed through a series of gentle, non-invasive movements that grow increasingly complex. No experience necessary.
Private lessons in Functional Integration® (FI)
In a private lesson, the practitioner’s precise touch guides you through gentle, safe movements to provide new information directly to the neuromuscular system, enabling it to change your organization in gravity and enhance efficiency, coordination, and ease.
Zoe and Jasper, the amazing rescue pup.
About Zoe
I've been helping people move better, feel better, and live better for over twenty-five years. And, I've been through my own lifelong chronic pain so I get how frustrating it is to want to move better and not know where to look.
I work best with people who are fed up with inefficient, limited movement and desperate to shift out of old patterns. Uncovering new movement is a training, I won't lie to you. (Just think how long it took you to get to where you are now!)
You'll get maximum benefit when you are ready to make a total investment in your own self-development. If you are yearning to move beyond getting out of pain and take back your life, then we are a good fit. I work best with people who want a more than good-enough life.
Who I work with
In my private Functional Integration® practice, I work with many people recovering from surgery, accident, or injury, as well as those who are stressed and in pain in daily life.
Often, my clients seek a shift in perception to inform a life change or personal growth. In Feldenkrais, we call this “completing the self-image,” where you increase your understanding of your intentions and directions rather than blindly reacting to life in a neurotic and painful way.
I also help people living with neurological conditions such as TBIs, stroke, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, dystonia, Parkinson’s disease, and more.
When you move with greater ease, all areas of your life are affected, including the quality of your relationships, the clarity of your decision-making, and the level of stress in your life.
For more background, see New to Feldenkrais in my blog, Vital Clarity.
Sample a short Awareness Through Movement® lesson. Lie down on the floor (not the bed), and press play. As with all Feldenkrais lessons, practice listening to yourself in a kind, meditative, spacious way.
My back and leg pain could only be relieved by my sessions with Zoe. When a necessary surgery left me partially paralyzed, Zoe helped me walk again. She explains things very clearly and she has an amazing ability to sense what’s going on in the body. She has changed my life for the better.
—Paula, Lafayette, CO