Case studies establish a baseline and direction for a series of individual sessions. Commitments range from hours per day for acute duress to one-hour, monthly check-ins. Brent has prior experience with adults and children with special communication and mobility needs.

Since restoring his own health, Brent desires supporting: bowlers, law enforcement, martial artists, actors/comedians, performers, and those wanting more stamina, balance or ambidexterity without indefinite commitment.

Contact Brent to outline your situation and intent. Many flexible, transparent barter conditions exist; how can healthcare be free for the provider too?

Progressive Benefits

• Direction
• Continuity
• Confidence
• Adaptability
• Self-reliance

Maddie - 2017

Seven sessions with Maddie with Down Syndrome
US Feldenkrais Guild® 2018 FeldenFilm Winner

Jeanette Baker Support Worker

"When you talk to Maddie she tends to focus on you better, and I think she is receiving instruction better and processing it faster. Like at drama, when she was asked last week to run across the stage, I've never really seen her run like that; I was quite amazed."

Gail Shepperd Support Worker

"The bending of her knee coming up has improved. She dances more proficiently."

Hellen Scriven Mother

"It's starting to come along. We're seeing different things. She just loves Brent!"

Ammaleigh - 2019-20

Ten sessions with Ammaleigh with brain injury, CP, hearing loss and global developmental delay

 

Bridgette Campbell Mother

"I'm a true believer in neuroplasticity, that the brain can always learn. Even as bad as her brain was damaged, she can make new pathways. Feldenkrais spoke to me on that level."

"Shortly after we started Feldenkrais, she said 'Mommy' for the first time ever at age eight. She has continued to build her spoken vocabulary and is very excited."

"During the time of our sessions, nothing else was added or changed; nothing really changed in our home routine besides adding the Feldenkrais."

Drew - 2023 (as an RIT grad student)

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How to restore the confidence in a teenager who tripped over their own sweatpants on the house stairs, and since, scoots on his butt instead of striding on his feet, including in public?

In a group of three students, I came to know Drew, his mother and Aaron Burton from their request for RIT's help to solve a teen's anxiety after trauma. If there are effects of a fairly common slip which escalated beyond immediate change to become long-term, which habits serve and which impede? Can reversal to a safe state be rekindled? How?

My movement-based perspective drew the following questions and observations from Drew:

Has his posture been affected by reliance on another?
Seems like it, as well as his strategies for exploring. I believe familiarity with weight-bearing through his feet without changing heights (ledges, edges, overhangs, lips, drain grates, etc) could lead to self-trust. Once competent and willing (connected), changing heights gradually increasing towards full stairs would transform his outlook. What's currently worrisome and its posture, pacing and paid professional assistant would evaporate from podiatric proficiency.

As a constraint of being in college, I could not get my hands on Drew. What I did create would be motivation to attempt full-height stairs, the culmination of having given Drew tactile sessions sufficient to him wanting this game experience:

Parts: one Australian gumtree nut, which is thrown onto the next higher stair each round. Scores are derived from the Fibonacci Sequence: 0 (ground), 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144... motivates to attempt higher stairs; a consistent rate of change (1-10) has less likelihood to win. Success is any stairs traversed. The irregular shape of the object thrown up the stairs is unpredictable, balancing skill and luck.

Drew clearly demonstrated a strong preference for standing on ground as many stairs as he could reach. It took grabbing a teammate's shirt discreetly when she attempted to intervene and assist to convey, "Let him attempt first, then support if need be."

Drew braved unanticipated stairs along the journey to the game site, wandering with curiosity towards the final destination. His courage implies safety, competence, willingness to succeed, belief he is benefitting.

Once we arrived at the lab after playing, he openly met other students and provided feedback on their soap, PuzzTub, which would later become a patented product. Thank you, Drew.