For the last thirty years I have been working with movement, both for my own self-exploration and as a way of reaching other people in their journeys. I started by studying dance as an art form, and by teaching and performing, but then one of my first colleagues helped me to realise that the real dance — and the real art form — consists in how we live each day.
      Often this is an impossible ideal: to allow ordinary things to be comfortable and cheerful is hard enough, without mentioning beauty, growth, and transcendence. Fortunately the dance community was a crossroads for many 'alternative' approaches, and I studied Alexander, Rolfing, Laban and many other methods before encountering Feldenkrais twenty-one years ago.
      For me, Feldenkrais was a keystone that helped everything else make sense, and I enrolled on the first UK training in 1987. Since then I have been working with dancers and musicians, with people with severe pain or disability, but especially with ordinary people who want to live and grow.
      The actual facts of my background are more diverse. I am originally from New Mexico, and took a BSc in mathematics before going on to an MA in dance. Though my first dance training emphasised theoretical aspects (especially the dance notation system called Labanotation), most of my work in the field was practical — performing first in the US, then in the UK and on the Continent, and training professional dancers.
      I was a founding member of the Siobhan Davies Dance Company and taught the company for its first six years. After completing the London Feldenkrais training — a four year professional training accredited by the international Feldenkrais organisations — I began to incorporate that work into dance training, as well as teaching functional anatomy at Roehampton Institute and conducting an injury clinic for students on the dance course at Lewisham College.
      Ten years ago I took charge of Feldenkrais teaching at the Open Centre, in central London; one of the UK's longest-established centres for self-development and personal growth. Since then I have applied Feldenkrais to the needs of people in many walks of life, from office workers to musicians, of all ages and sorts of experience. I teach weekly evening classes at the Open Centre, as well as weekend workshops, and give individual lessons both there and at home in New Cross, southeast London.
      Other work includes supervision of more recently-qualified Feldenkrais Practitioners and teaching on Feldenkrais professional training programs in the UK, Europe and the United States.
      I am a member of the Feldenkrais Guild UK, the professional organisation responsible for maintaining standards of practice, and fully subscribe to their Code of Ethics and requirement of professional insurance. For three years I was the editor of the Guild's newsletter; I now serve the Guild by chairing it.