TRAUMA-RESPONSIVE FELDENKRAIS
With Dan Rindler, GCFP, SEP
Long before the language of “trauma-responsive practice” became common, Moshe Feldenkrais developed ways of working that honored safety, choice, and self-regulation. And yet, even with this holistic approach, many of us encounter students whose nervous systems remain organized around vigilance, protection, or collapse. For these students whose daily lives are shaped by past survival-reactions, our usual ways of teaching the method are not always enough.
In this workshop, we will explore how to develop a more trauma-responsive approach to practicing the Feldenkrais Method, both in ATM and FI. Through building upon the foundation of observation, touch, and understanding you have developed as a practitioner, you will learn to recognize and skillfully respond to protective autonomic nervous system patterns as they arise.
Together, we will explore:
- Recognizing, understanding, and working with signs of high alert, shutdown, or dissociation
- Supporting a deeper sense of safety without overriding protective responses
- Working in ways that honor survival strategies while gently inviting new options
- Practical ideas for how to respond when trauma reactions emerge in ATM and FI (while remaining clearly within the scope of somatic education)
This workshop invites you to look at your teaching with compassionate, curious eyes. We will deepen what you already know, address common blind spots, and cultivate confidence that we can more fully support our students whose lives are colored by patterns of trauma reactions.
Open to Feldenkrais, ABM, and other Feldenkrais-related Practitioners, and Trainees
Introductory Workshop
Summer, 2026 Date TBA, 3 hours
On Zoom
$150, (Feldenkrais Trainees, $100)
Training/Mentoring
1st Sunday of each month, 12pm-3pm
Begins June 7th, 2026
On Zoom
Intro workshop is a pre-requisite, either attended on zoom, or via recording.
Registration coming soon
Dan Rindler is a Feldenkrais and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner specializing in addressing chronic pain, trauma and anxiety, in private practice since 2006. He has studied with Jeff Haller in the IOPS Academy Feldenkrais graduate program, and has mentored extensively with Shel Wagner-Rasch in somatic trauma work.
Dan has offered somatic education workshops for the general public, for trauma survivors, for psychotherapists, for musicians at Yale University and Manhattan School of Music, and for Somatic Experiencing Practitioners through SEI. He has worked as a practitioner at the Feldenkrais Institute of NY, has co-taught the NYC Child’Space training alongside Barbara Leverone and Chava Shelhav, and has assisted in multiple trainings for Somatic Experiencing International.
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