What are therapists saying about the Feldenkrais ® training program?

Marjorie Levine, OTR, CFP, Providence Hospital Home Health Care, Farmington Hills, MI. "The most profound thing about the Feldenkrais ® Practitioner Training Program is that it brought my capacity for clinical reasoning into the foreground of my interaction with clients. My clients often say 'no one has ever done this before'. The functional outcomes that get created with clients now are consistently beyond my expectations after completing the Feldenkrais ® training."

Suzanne Hurt, Professor Emeritus, Medical College of Virginia, School of Physical Therapy and CFP. "Physical therapy and Feldenkrais ® are first cousins - my work with clients has broadened as a result of me taking the Feldenkrais ® Practitioner Training Program. (telephone interview 12/14/01)."

Sandy Burkhart, Ph.D., PT, CFP, Functional Rehab Associates, Boca Rotan, FL, (12/14/01). "The Feldenkrais ® Practitioner Training Program has given me a unique power to create functional progress for patients. I combine PT, Feldenkrais ® and basic science. The Feldenkrais Method ® provides me with the opportunity to be masterful as a movement reeducation specialist regardless of the primary treating diagnosis."

Osa Jackson Schulte, Ph.D.,PT, Director of Movement and Healing Center, Clarkston, MI. "The Feldenkrais Method ® has allowed me a level of precision and effectiveness with physical therapy clients beyond all of my expectations."

Katie Gibbs-Scarchilli, PT, CFP, Private practice physical therapist. "My training in the Feldenkrais Method ® has allowed me to be a more accurate diagnostician of functional problems and to have more extensive resources for creating treatment programs."

What do physicians have to say about the Feldenkrais ® training program?

Karl Pribram, M.D., Neuro-Scientist. "Feldenkrais ® is not just pushing muscles around, but changing things in the brain itself."

Andrew Weil, M.D., Author of "Spontaneous Healing." "I recommend the Feldenkrais Method ® to patients whose movement has been restricted by injury, cerebral palsy, stroke, fibromyalgia, or chronic pain. I find it to be much more useful than standard physical therapy. I also believe that the Feldenkrais Method ® can help all of us feel more comfortable in our bodies."

Richard Kushner, D.O. "The Feldenkrais Method ® is a satisfying modality of treatment, which can diminish ones physical ailments and aid with emotional issues."