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Janice Vincent founder
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Janice is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm
with over 20 years experience with the Feldenkrais Method®, 14 years of ongoing professional development
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graduate training courses, and 10 years of professional practice. In addition
to seeing clients directly, she mentors new practitioners. Janice has been teaching private Functional Integration® sessions and Awareness Through Movement® (ATM) classes and workshops in full-time in Bellevue since 1999. As a long-term former Director on both the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America board and the Feldenkrais Educational Foundation of North America, she is well connected in the field throughout North America. Prior to opening her Bellevue-based practice, Janice held senior executive positions in private and public companies in Canada and the U.S., and operated her own successful communication business. |
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LeeAnn Starovasnik
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LeeAnn is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm with over 12 years experience in the Feldenkrais Method® and over 8 years of professional practice. In addition to seeing clients privately, teaching focused classes and workshops, she mentors new teachers working in senior education centers and has been on the faculty of the Lifetime Learning Center for 10 years. Since 1999 she has been expanding from coaching quality process improvements in technology and financial services businesses to facilitating others to embody continuous personal improvements using the Feldenkrais Method®. She has designed series of lessons in Everyday Ease™ and Balance in ActionTM for computer users, seniors, caregivers, artists, dog walkers and curious souls from all walks of life. She loves applying her well-honed observation, intuition and problem-solving skills to creatively help clients discover or recover how to move efficiently and comfortably through life with the “no pain, more gain” philosophy. |
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| Shirley Beieler
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Shirley Beieler is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner who has been involved in Feldenkrais work since 2000. She was able to avoid back surgery for a herniated disc through her work in the Feldenkrais Method. Inspired to help others find similar success and ease of movement, Shirley left her previous job to become a Feldenkrais practitioner. Shirley’s background includes a B.A. in Clothing and Textiles, teaching hand weaving techniques, numerous college level music classes, and managing an orthodontic lab for many years. Shirley's interests include her family, friends, singing in a vocal jazz ensemble, and gardening. |
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| Pam Gow
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Pam is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner. She was introduced to Feldenkrais in 2000, when dealing with debilitating chronic pain and a weakened immune system. Since 2004, Pam has worked with people who have acute and chronic pain. Through the Feldenkrais Method, she enjoys teaching others to access their innate ability to change movement patterns to improve their quality of life. She is also a former Registered Nurse, earning her RN at University of British Columbia. |
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| Ed Mills
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Ed is a Guild-authorized Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement teacher. He also teaches partner dancing and skating, creatively incorporating the Feldenkrais Method into his teaching. He is an active technology volunteer, helping many non-profits set up and maintain their computer networks. He is particularly fascinated with the power of Feldenkrais Method to change behavior as well as movement. |
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Irene Pasternack
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Before becoming a Guild-authorized Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement teacher. Irene spent many years as a technical writer. Her first experience with Feldenkrais was while she was recovering from a herniated disc. After learning to move differently and getting out of pain, she discovered how quickly Feldenkrais could help her reach dreams of completing her first Seattle-to-Portland bicycle ride and becoming an accomplished inline skater. She teaches Nia, partner dancing, and skating, and loves to garden. |
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As Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioners and authorized Awareness Through Movement Teachers, all staff adhere to the Feldenkrais Guild’s Feldenkrais Standards of Practice and Code of Professional Conduct.