site title, Brooklyn Feldenkrais

Somatic Trauma Healing + an Integrated Approach to Chronic Pain

Dan Rindler, Somatic Experiencing and Feldenkrais Practitioner


Touch is your baby’s first language

Learn a hands-on approach which supports your baby’s development, helps you feel more centered and confident, and brings you both to feel even closer. 

I have shared this approach with thousands of families through the program I created, “We Grow Together.” I currently offer highly personalized private and semi-private sessions for parents and babies, and the Tummy-Time Together video course.

Arrange a session or package of private sessions in my Brooklyn office or on zoom. Or share the experience with another new-parent friend with semi-private sessions. I’m also available to lead group classes to new parents’ groups, and lead professional development forinfant and toddler centers.  

  • Learn to support your baby’s learning at every stage
  • Feel more calm and confident as a parent
  • Help with Tummy-time or other challenging positions
  • Improve Soothing through Co-Regulation and Self-Regulation
  • Address late milestones, such as rolling, sitting, crawling, walking
  • Address torticollis, reflux, more

First Time offered in over two years! Pre-Crawlers Class!
Sundays, Oct 13, 2024 – Nov 17 480 6th Avenue, Park Slope • Time TBA


Book a 15 minute consultation call to decide if We Grow Together sessions are right for you.

What Parents are Saying:

“Dan Rindler really has an uncanny ability to watch your child for only a moment and make spot-on suggestions of how you can best support your child’s physical development. I have recommended Dan to countless friends as a great resource to help parents and caregivers feel more confident while connecting with their babies.”  Ronit

“If you only spend money on one baby-related thing, I highly recommend you work with Dan. With his keen eye he’d spot what our baby was thinking about doing or trying to do, and give us tools to help them in a way that respected both their minds and their bodies. In the end, this helped our baby move in such a rewarding way, setting her mind on something and then persisting on her own or with our gentle suggestions. She’d often try one thing after another with her body until she could make it happen. Then she would beam, clearly proud of herself, clearly in love with the feeling of that new motion.”  Faye Hays, Designer, Artist

“Dan is a wonderful, knowledgeable, kind and patient teacher who has taught us to use playtime as a collaborative bonding experience that encourages and supports our baby’s development. We have learned the positive impact of physical touch, not only as a way to build a deeper connection with our baby but also to help bring awareness to our baby of her physical self.”

“These classes have helped me reduce my anxiety around my parenting and regain my curiosity and excitement in exploring movement, touch, breath, and song with my baby. I am a calmer mother because of these sessions”  – Sofia


A Holistic Approach to Torticollis

“Our son is doing really well!  After two sessions, he rolled over from tummy to back a couple times this week, he’s using his right side a lot more in tummy time, and in general is happy in his body.”

Torticollis Baby Sketch

What if helping your baby to learn to move more freely could also be a bonding experience?  Dan Rindler’s Feldenkrais-based approach for babies with torticollis emphasizes learning new options for movement with a whole-body/whole-child approach.  It can be used as a stand-alone approach or implemented in conjunction with traditional physical therapy exercises.

Addressing the whole body
When we look beyond this baby’s neck to observe her whole body, we notice that her left shoulder and left ribs are also affected, the left side of her pelvis is raised and her left leg is flexed.  With such an asymmetrical foundation, it follows that the habitual pattern for her head and neck is to tilt? (Not every baby follows this pattern, but every baby with torticollis has some pattern of holding throughout the body.)

This holistic viewpoint is used to inform the way  touch and movement can support a baby in learning to find more movement possibilities. A baby may react with tears and cries when her tight neck is stretched, but working with her ribs, her hip, or her leg, will feel less invasive to her and she will learn to move in a way that doesn’t engage her neck muscles in their habitual pattern of contraction.

Addressing the whole child
This approach focuses on how we can help your baby to learn to do the things they desire – i.e. to see your face, reach and grasp – as a way to overcome the limitations of torticollis. This makes the learning more meaningful and immediately rewarding to your baby. Improving reaching for a toy and bringing it to one’s mouth makes for a powerful motivation to learn to move beyond one’s limitations. This gentle, effective holistic approach will help your baby to find new options for posture and movement that will benefit him or her for life.

3 Private Sessions is the usual minimum necessary within the span of two weeks.  Book a free consult, and learn if this approach is a good fit for you and your baby.