Feel a little more settled, centered and connected this year! I’ve spent years working toward creating this Roots of Resilience course. It’s what I needed when I first learned Feldenkrais Method 30 years ago: A trauma-informed approach to Feldenkrais, and an online community of support to help you along the way toward feeling a bit more settled, centered and connected – more the way you’d like to feel in your everyday life as well as in challenging moments.
It may be for you, if:
- You’ve been the one with eyes darting around the room during shavasana.
- It’s challenging to feel settled enough to appreciate the good moments of everyday life.
- You’ve heard yourself say it “makes you anxious to relax.”
- Even still, you’re yearning to feel embodied, centered, grounded, more focused.
Roots of Resilience will include
- Trauma-informed Feldenkrais Movement Explorations taught on zoom
- Journaling Projects
- Question+Answer Sessions
- A Small Community of Support
- Optional Individual Sessions
Am I ready for this?
Feeling more present in the body is within your reach — it isn’t only for other people! You can find your way home to feeling comfortable with the sensations in your body. I know even the idea of this may sound challenging if you’ve often felt in as if something goes haywire when you tune into your body. It’s very common that tuning into the body for many of us can bring on a feeling of being on high alert.
To make progress means we’ll need to delve deep, but we’re not jumping into the deep end of the pool! We’re starting on the shallow side and we’re taking the stairs one at a time. Maybe even starting by dipping a toe! Because measured incremental change which feels safe, is what usually leads to real, lasting progress.
How we’ll get there:
The course is a 4-part offering. (Optionally 5!)
- Weekly Feldenkrais Movement lessons + journaling projects (as short or long as you choose)
- Community support via a private chat group
- Once per month coaching sessions with Dan
- Trauma “First Aid” recordings to use as needed
- Optional individual session packages with Dan which weave together Feldenkrais and SE.
This course won’t do it all, so let’s talk about what it’s not:
1. It isn’t guaranteed to always relax or center you. Sometimes the movement sessions will be profoundly relaxing or centering, and…sometimes they won’t. Those times when they’re not so calming are important learning experiences if you can bring curiosity to the experience. (And I will try to help everyone with that.)
2. It isn’t a comprehensive approach to process each person’s individual trauma history. It’s important to have support in place (or on call) if things come up for you during the course. That might be a therapist, a Somatic Experiencing practitioner, a spiritual leader, or whoever you prefer. We simply can’t get as specific in a group course about your experience in the way those individual sessions can and sometimes both are needed.
3. It cannot provide appropriate support for people struggling with addictions, suicidal ideation, or mental illness. These are outside of my scope of practice. If any of these are challenges you’re facing, there are many other groups out there that will be helpful in ways I don’t know how to be.
4. It probably isn’t the right thing if you feel you’re at your darkest hour (You’d be better served right now by the personal attention of a therapist)
In this program we focus on three roots of resilience.
1. Coming home to the body.
Find huge relief and more clarity for what you’re thinking and feeling. It comes when you succeed in finding a safe experience of your sensations and we’ll try several paths toward that embodied homecoming.
2. Tapping into Inner Resources.
You’ll find how to have more access to feelings of calm when you are wound up or freaking out. And actually build capacity for being with difficult sensations or emotions.
3. Knowing thyself.
Begin to clarify the specifics of your coping and override patterns. What stops you from appreciating being present in moments of life that are going well? Knowing yourself this way can help you both appreciated the good moments, and to weather the challenging ones.
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Core Program:
Movement — Weekly live (on zoom) Trauma-informed Movement Lessons.
Journaling — optional journaling prompts during our meetings and in between for integrating your learning.
Community: share challenges and triumphs, vent frustrations to a receptive audience, maybe even find a virtual shoulder to cry on, and truly support each other’s growth.
Additional Supports:
Monthly Live coaching sessions – group meetings to ask questions, experience brief one-on-one work with Dan in front of the group (only if you choose!), and learn watching others do the same.
Trauma First-Aid. 4 short audio meditation practices to help you settle and find inner strength any time you need it.
Lifetime access to the 24 weekly movement sessions!
Schedule:
Weekly Movement and Journaling Groups: Dates TBA
Monthly Live Zoom Coaching Sessions: Dates TBA
Trauma First-Aid Recordings
Optional Private session package, appointments available Monday – Friday on zoom or in-person in Park Slope, Brooklyn
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How would 5% more present feel?
Imagine feeling even 5% more present in your own experience and in connections to others — What would be different?! I try to be very realistic in my offerings. It’s only natural to hope for a huge cathartic change, and an approach that will relieve all our struggles, discomforts and pain. For most of us though, things are not going to change overnight in every way. But here’s the crucial thing: we may imagine we need a huge dramatic shift, but often incremental changes for the better can feel monumental and offer us relief and more presence in everyday life along with hope for our potential continued growth.
“Dan is very passionate about it in his quiet but enthusiastic way and cares deeply about students learning. After a few sessions I began to feel like I was far more present in my body which helped to ease my anxiety which was quite high before the course.” – Stella Robertson, 2019
About Dan Rindler:
The personal work I’ve done is what allows me to stay regulated and open to my clients as they work through their own learning process. My ability to offer this course, and the private sessions that I do only comes because I’m doing this work myself. I have been through my own version of what my clients are struggling with, and continue to work with the layers of my own experience to become more present myself and more connected with others.
Ever since I started learning Feldenkrais Method in 1991, I’ve been on a path toward learning to address trauma and anxiety: first for myself, and in the past 15 years, for my clients. That path brought me to study privately with Ruella Frank, creator of Developmental Somatic Psychology, and to partner with Stacey Klein LCSW, to offer Feldenkrais-based workshops for psychotherapists. When I began learning Somatic Experiencing, Peter Levine’s approach to trauma-renegotiation, it resonated with me in a powerful way — I felt a huge sense of being at home in that method and that community. Since the first days of learning SE, I’ve worked to weave Feldenkrais and SE into my own personal approach to working with folks. The Roots of Resilience, 2022 is the result of much study and experience in weaving those two approaches into a cohesive whole.
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