The Training Staff

Jerry Karzen M.A.  Jerry (photographed with Dr. Feldenkrais in 1982 on the right) is the Educational Director of the Hawaii Feldenkrais® Training Program, and will serve as a trainer in 60% of the training.  He is a graduate of the 1977 San Francisco Training with Dr. Feldenkrais.  Jerry worked with Dr. Feldenkrais at the Feldenkrais Institute in Tel-Aviv. When they lived together between 1976 and 1984, Jerry was Moshe Feldenkrais' personal traveling companion, secretary and close friend. He assisted in the editing of Dr. Feldenkrais' last two books and directed, or himself videotaped, 95% of all existing tapes of Dr. Feldenkrais' private Functional Integration® lessons. At the request of Dr. Feldenkrais, Jerry organized and administered his last training program and was the first Executive Director of the Feldenkrais Foundation. He has also served as President of the North American Feldenkrais Guild^®.
    Jerry has been the educational director for over twenty programs since 1982, and is currently educational director for programs in Europe and Hawaii.  He was chosen by Dr. Feldenkrais to be a trainer in 1982. 

    Jerry is known primarily for his interpretive abilities and explanations of Dr. Feldenkrais’ Functional Integration lessons on videotape.  A number of these will be shown during the course of the program.  He is also known for his simple “bottom line” pragmatic approach, while simultaneously incorporating an open-ended “exploratory and non directive” teaching style.

    "Jerry Karzen understands the deep connections that Moshe Feldenkrais achieved through touch and brings that level of awareness and sensitivity into his work."
 -Jane Parsons-Fein, CSWBCD President Emeritus--Director of Training The New York Milton H. Erickson Society for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis, Inc.

"Jerry Karzen was an associate and companion to Moshe during his final teaching years. As a trainer, he is committed to teaching the Feldenkrais Method as he learned it from Moshe. He does so with humor, compassion and sincere concern for each student's learning process."
John Chester, M.D.
 

Amherst Training -Graduation Day 1983
(L to R: Miriam Pfeffer, Gaby Yaron, Jerry Karzen, Anat Baniel, Ruthy Alon, Yochanon Rwyerant)

The other trainers for the Hawaii Feldenkrais Training Program are:

        Jeff Haller, Ph.D., is a graduate of the 1983 Amherst Training. His background in collegiate basketball and the martial arts has given him a deep understanding of function and he is able to demonstrate with unusual proficiency the dynamic use of self that Dr. Feldenkrais was always utilizing himself in his lessons. Jeff is scheduled to teach the beginning month after the third year [and again in the fourth year]when these skills are most appropriate to be learned. Jeff has been the Educational Director for many programs in the Pacific Northwest and one in New Zealand. Jeff currently lives with his wife and two young children in Bend Oregon, where he also maintains a very active private practice.

 

Donna Ray, M.A., M.F.T., is the director of Feldenkrais Southern California Institute in San Diego.  Donna has also been an  Educational Director and taught in numerous Feldenkrais Trainings worldwide.  Donna is able to clearly connect abstract ideas to the concrete reality of daily practice. Her teaching was formed by her Psychotherapy and Ericksonian hypnotherapy training, as well as her training in Dance, Art, and Martial Arts. She has maintained a busy private practice for more than 20 years assisting children and adults to meet the challenges posed by cerebral palsy, pain, injuries, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, learning difficulties, childbirth and athletic performance
 

Allison Rapp is also a graduate of the 1977 San Francisco Training with Dr. Feldenkrais. She traveled with him during his (Quest) ATM workshop tours in the United States in 1980 and 1981. She has been intermittently active in the North American Feldenkrais Guild since its inception, serving as an Officer, Board member, and Chairperson of the Training Accreditation Board.

    Allison has been a trainer since 1991, and has taught in many programs in the United States, Canada, Germany, Austria and the Pacific Rim. She has maintained active practices wherever she's lived, including Washington, DC, Morgantown, WV, and now in Grass Valley, CA, where she currently resides with her Feldenkrais practitioner husband, Michael Purcell, and two children.

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