I have extensive experience working internationally as a facilitator for change and empowerment through movement based learning. I work with adults, children and babies, and specialise in working with children and babies with special needs. I am a certified Feldenkrais Method practitioner, with additional certifications in Theory and Techniques from Anat Baniel Method for Children (ABM), taught by Nancy Aberle, the Jeremy Krauss Approach for Child Development (JKA), and Coco Berlin's Pelvic Floor Integration/PUSSY YOGA Method. I offer individual sessions and workshops. Having spent ten years travelling extensively, working regularly in 18 cities in ten different countries, I now work primarily in private practice in Vienna. I also work on return trips to New Zealand where I was born and raised. Additionally, I mentor professionals working with children, through individual mentoring sessions and professional development workshops, including Advanced Training. for Feldenkrais practitioners in New Zealand. I was previously based in Paris, France from 2011 to 2018, where I also studied Clean Language with Jennifer de Gandt. Clean Language offers a template for directing attention and asking questions without imposing the facilitator’s own interpretations, suggestions and presuppositions on a client’s experience: allowing for their own insights and knowledge to emerge of their perceptions and behaviour. I have a background in dance and theatre as a dancer, writer and director. My work also draw on a range of somatic movement and dance practices that I encountered within these fields. These practices, like the Feldenkrais Method, privilege the self-organising intelligence of the body: where given the right conditions for learning we can overcome challenges to grow and transform.
“No matter how closely we look, it is difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of some physical function.”
One of the most inspiring and rewarding aspects of my work is witnessing the transformations in people’s lives that occur, whether it’s an adult learning to free themselves from chronic pain, or a baby or child learning to do things their families were told they would never learn. I first discovered the Feldenkrais Method when seeking to change my own challenges with chronic pain, tension and stress. From my first experience I knew Feldenkrais would help me the way nothing else had to date. I began to learn, with surprising ease, new foundations for moving through life, free from the chronic pain I suffered, and with greater resilience in my emotional and psychological life. It has helped me to realise more of my potential and live a life of greater choice. The realisation of potential and empowerment is at the heart of what inspires me in this work. I feel privileged to play a role in helping people learn to create new possibilities for themselves, and in turn for their families and communities.
Email: sophie@movement-works.com Phone: +43 (0)670 404 72 23
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