March 17, 2023
News FOR and ABOUT the MEMBERS of FGNA
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Taking Advantage of Your Membership Benefits
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InTouch is an FGNA publication for practitioners and available to FGNA members only. As a publication for practitioners the articles can be used to inform your practice with your students (and yourself).
Do you have students that are having long COVID symptoms?
Elinor Silverstein shared her tips for dealing with long COVID with her students and herself in a recent InTouch interview.
Back issues of the Guild’s publication for the public, SenseAbility, have been added to the Feldenkrais.com site. Find the latest issue here.
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Your Professional Organization Needs You!
Your Professional Organization Needs You!
Calling on ALL FGNA Members who have experience in being on a non-profit Board, in administration, legal affairs, accounting, management, and/or facilitation who have a passion for community, collaboration, consent, and respectful dialogue.
OPEN POSITIONS ON THE FGNA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Effective immediately: Director term: 3/15/23 - 9/30/26 FGNA BOD Secretary-Elect/appointee mentored by Fairya Doc before the position begins on 9/30/23 2 Director-Elect positions to shadow 2 Directors beginning 1/1/24
Contact the FGNA Nominating Committee for more details. We want to hear from you!
Misha Forrester fgnanominating1@gmail.com Cathy Wright fgnanominating2@gmail.com Katarina Halm fgnanominating4@gmail.com Kate Conroy fgnanominating5@gmail.com Jane Johnston fgnanominating3@gmail.com
Stay tuned for our spotlight column featuring outstanding volunteers!
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In Memoriam
Ellen Gordon, a vibrant, creative, generous and kind member of the New York Region of the Feldenkrais Guild died Thursday, February 23,2023 at the age of 86.
She graduated from Manhattan1 in 2002. She was a videographer, who generously offered her talents to her training, the NY Region and to others. Ellen's enthusiasm , practice and understanding of our work encouraged many in her community in Crown Heights (Brooklyn, NY) to become Feldenkrais® Practitioners. She was the NY Region's Librarian for many years. She was not only a Feldenkrais practitioner but was also a Bone for Life Trainer. Ellen's joyful demeanor, gentle touch and willingness to offer service to the Feldy community, will be missed by many.
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Special Events
Eastern and Southeast Regions present: Chat with Assistant Feldenkrais® Trainer
Candy came to Feldenkrais work as a physical therapist specializing in rehabilitation of people with complex spinal disorders. Candy is dedicated to teaching human beings how to move through life with power, integrity of spirit, and joy.
March 26 at 11am PT/2pm EST Online – via Zoom Free for FGNA Members, others - $25
Please send any questions for Candy to feldyeastern@gmail.com
Join Paris Kern's, "The Trainer is IN!"
Online lively Q&A of anything Feldenkrais®, your self-improvement, client concerns or predicaments, whether you are starting a new practice, in the midst, or retiring, FI® or ATM® queries, equipment use, etc.
Open to ALL Guild Members
The first Sunday of each month, 4:30 PM-5:30 PM EST, 1:30-2:30 pm PT, 9:30-10;30pm GMT, 10:30-11:30 pm CET
Cost $20.00
Please register early! And send your questions in advance to pariskern@comcast.net
Note: Paris reserves the right to cancel Office Hours for a specific month. You will be reimbursed or can save your ticket for the following month.
This event is sponsored by The New England Region of FGNA
Practitioner-to-Practitioner (P2P) Presentations
March 26: Practitioner to Practitioner #1 with Gisele St. Hilaire
Sponsored by the Canada Region of FGNA
How do we pay attention to what is unknown or 'not there' for us and how do we help our students do this?
Gisele will bring our awareness to inclusive attention: What it is, why it matters, the musculoskeletal organization that enables it, and how to more easily access the profound riches that come from such attention for ourselves and our students.
Register here
San Francisco Feldenkrais® Training Online Study Group (ongoing)
NW Region, hosted by the NW Region Library
First and third Thursdays of each month, 8:00-9:00 PM Pacific Online via Zoom (free participation in online meetings) Contact: Katherine Wieseman at feldenkraisnwlibrary@gmail.com for zoom link.
Practice and discuss ATM® lessons with your colleagues!
New York Region of the FGNA "IN-PERSON" get-together
April 23rd, 2- 4:30pm FELDENKRAIS® MANHATTAN" 134 West 26th Street, 2nd Floor
Save the Date! - Moti Nativ: Teaching Seniors, the Psychology of Aging
In person workshop in Denver, Colorado Date: May 6 & 7, 2023 Questions? Email or call Margie Monnet: 303-717-4714, marmon@comcast.net
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Seeking an Assistant Editor for the Feldenkrais JournalTM
Are you an experienced editor with a flair for language and a knack for management?
Do you enjoy collaborating with other Feldenkrais® practitioners and writers?
Have you been looking for a way to share your writing and organizational skills with the greater Feldenkrais community?
The Feldenkrais Journal is currently interviewing for the next Assistant Editor.... Could it be you?
We'd love to hear from you this month!
Please send your CV and a short paragraph outlining your relevant skills to journal@feldenkraisguild.com by April 1.
Also: The Feldenkrais Journal is accepting article submissions until April 1!
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Health Care Provider Survey
Dear Feldenkrais® colleague,
If you are a Feldenkrais Practitioner working in healthcare, please take a few minutes to complete this anonymous survey.
As health care providers, we are able to offer this precious somatic and experiential work to our clients. At the same time, we might experience challenges having to adhere to the parameters of medical approach. We want to learn more about your practice
The goal of this anonymous survey is to determine if and how Feldenkrais practitioners are bringing aspects of the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education into their clinical practice. If not, then what are the barriers to integrating Feldenkrais into their clinical practice. From this survey we hope to better understand the breadth of interdisciplinary applications of the Feldenkrais method.
Jutta Brettschneider, OTD OTR/L and GCFPCM Marina Gilman, MM, MA CCC-SLP, GCFPCM
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Contribute to FGNA publications!
Themes for upcoming editions of SenseAbility & InTouch
Plan your Articles - Increase Your Exposure
Every article includes a member's bio, website and other promotional information. In addition, the articles are posted on Facebook where we have over 3,700 followers - all potential students. It is a great way to build your audience and client base.
Upcoming themes for SenseAbility & InTouch*
April: SenseAbility - Yoga & the Feldenkrais Method®,
InTouch - The Unique Contributions of the Feldenkrais Method
May: SenseAbility - Early Childhood Motor Development
June & beyond: Self-Confidence, Working Life, Listening, Unique Applications of the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education, Speed/Power/Strength, Inner & Outer Worlds, What Is Functional Integration®?, Feldenkrais & Meditation, Effort & Effortlessness
InTouch, the Guild’s members only publication, publishes articles you write for the benefit of fellow practitioners. Please consider submitting to InTouch instead of SenseAbility.
SenseAbility is the Guild's publication for the general public, which currently has a subscriber list of almost 12,000 readers. Articles are a maximum of 1,500 words in length. Multi-media submissions are welcome.
Write to us at fgnacommunications2@gmail.com
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Spotlight on Legislative Advocacy
Massachusetts
In February we reported on bills that would remove exemptions and require licensure for “alternative healing therapies” including the practice of the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education and many other professions. On February 16, H282 and S191 were introduced in the House and Senate, and referred to the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure.
The committee has not yet scheduled hearings on the bills. They considered identical bills in the last legislative session, after hearing strong testimony in opposition, they referred the bills to a study order, and the bills died. We’re optimistic that they will again be receptive to our concerns. We’ll preparing updated FGNA testimony, and helping our members in Massachusetts prepare written and verbal testimony.
The former state Attorney General co-sponsored similar bills in past sessions. The new Attorney General has not co-sponsored the new bills, and representatives of the Joint Government Relations Committee (“JGRC”) of the Federation of Therapeutic Massage, Bodywork and Somatic Practice Organizations (“Federation MBS”) will be meeting with her staff, to discuss our concerns.
Federation MBS Annual Meeting
In late March FGNA President Nancy Haller and Andrea will be travelling to Boulder, CO for the annual meeting of the Federation MBS, where we have an opportunity to take a deeper dive into legislative issues and strategy, as well as other topics of mutual concern.
Questions?
Contact Government Relations Administrator Andrea Wiener: andrea.wiener@feldenkraisguild.com.
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Nancy Haller, President, Sue Seto, Vice President, Erik LeSuer, Treasurer, Fariya Doctor, Secretary, March Dolphin, Director 3, Sue Robuck, Director 5, Beth Scott, Director 6, Mercedes Von Deck, Director Elect
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