About Naomi
I learned this work on myself, first.
relieving pain. improving movement. letting go of unnecessary effort.
The turning point
I injured my knee seriously, and then had several surgeries that did not give me back what I had lost. I learned to move around the problem: to favour one leg, to avoid certain positions, to brace before I stood up. Over the years that becomes not a knee problem but a whole-body habit.
What finally changed something was not another attempt to repair the joint. It was being guided to notice how I was moving, in detail, without being corrected. Slowly other options appeared.
I remember the moment clearly: standing with my weight resting evenly on both legs, sensing my body as one connected whole after years of restriction. That experience is what led me into this profession, and it is what I recognise in the people who come to me.
Experience
What I have studied, and where it comes from.
B.Ed, Bachelor of Education · M.A, Group Facilitation
- Feldenkrais Method
- Full professional training, and Assistant Trainer experience on trainings in Europe and Asia.
- 25+ years of movement
- Practice with adults, children, athletes and performers across three continents.
- Montessori education
- Ten years teaching, with close attention to how children learn through movement.
- Developmental work
- Babies and young children, including children up to age five with developmental differences such as autism and cerebral palsy.
- Thai Yoga Massage
- Hands-on training that shaped a quiet, listening quality of touch.
- Meditation
- A long personal practice of attention, which underpins everything else.
- Schema Coaching
- Working with patterns in thought and behaviour alongside patterns in movement.
- FAMO fascia & movement
- Continuing study of fascia and movement.
Working with children
Alongside my movement practice I spent a decade in Montessori education, which taught me to watch children closely and to trust their own timing.
I have professional experience working with babies and young children, including children up to the age of five with developmental differences such as autism and cerebral palsy. This is experience, not a treatment claim: I do not treat autism or any medical condition. I work with movement, attention and development, with the child and often with the parent together.
“She deeply understands the theory and adapts it perfectly to the individual.”
Naomi is a wonderful teacher and person. She truly knows and deeply understands the Feldenkrais theory and applies it in the best possible ways by adapting it perfectly to the personal, individual needs of each patient. Since she relocated her practice from Israel, I still miss her deeply and would love to have her back.
Curious whether this could help you?
The first session is an assessment and a chance to experience the work for yourself.