Through gentle yet precise, directive touch as well as verbal guidance, Sonja empowers you to form new ways of moving, feeling and functioning with greater ease and enjoyment.

People often come to Sonja seeking relief from aches and pains in their back, neck, hip, knee, shoulder, arm or other parts of themselves from acute or chronic injuries. Many come to learn how to move more efficiently, easily and gracefully. This includes athletes, musicians, performing artists as well as persons with neurological conditions such as Cerebral Palsy, stroke, Muscular Dystrophy or Parkinson’s. Some people come who are interested primarily in personal growth. Most everyone wants to learn how they can influence their actions, feelings, and responses to life’s challenges. Sonja addresses all of these needs, desires, and interests.

Sessions are Tailored to Each Person’s Specific Situation.

Like our handwriting, we all develop unique movement signatures — ways we habitually organize our actions. By working directly with your personalized somatic patterns, Sonja teaches you how to move more easily, to influence how you respond to life’s challenges and pleasures, and to form greater satisfaction in how you relate to yourself, others and your world.

Through Sonja’s training in the Feldenkrais Method® and her years of ongoing studies in Formative Psychology®, Sonja encourages you to develop, grow and form your life more fully–physically, emotionally, mentally.

Sonja has worked with people from five months to 103 years old! She helps people with a wide variety of unique circumstances and interests:

• Persons seeking relief from back, neck, shoulder, hip or other neuromuscular pain
• Individuals interested in embodied learning and personal growth
• Children with developmental or learning differences
• Seniors or adults with balance or other movement concerns
• Athletes, martial artists, dancers, and musicians interested in improving their performance abilities or recovering from injuries
• Persons with neurological conditions such as cerebral palsy, parkinson’s, MS or stroke
• Pre- and post-operative recovery (open heart surgery, reconstructive knee surgery, hip replacement surgery)
• Repetitive stress injuries, eye, back and neck strains

The office is located on the ground floor and is wheelchair accessible with accessible bathrooms.

What to Expect

Adults and seniors often enjoy lying quietly in comfortable loose clothing on a Feldenkrais table while Sonja works with you using gentle, precise, noninvasive touch and verbal guidance.

Some sessions are more active and will include hands-on and verbally guided movements in a variety of positions such as sitting, kneeling or standing. Sessions often also include somatic practices which you can practice on your own after and between sessions.

Functional Integration, Feldenkrais, Feldenkrais Method are registered trademarks of the Feldenkrais Guild of N.A. Formative Psychology® is a trademark of Stanley Keleman.

 What to Expect

A lesson is approximately 35-45 minutes. The form each session takes depends upon each individual child’s needs, interests, and attention span.

Sessions include quiet, slow moments of exploring and forming motor behaviors relevant to your child’s development while lying, kneeling or sitting, as well as more active explorations moving through space and engaging in locomotive patterns such as rolling, crawling, slithering, hopping, and leaping.

Children often enjoy “movement experiments” during which they discover new ways to influence how they can move, act and interact.

Though each session may look quite different, one thing remains consistent:

I guide your child in his or her own unique learning process to discover easy and enjoyable ways of moving through life.