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"Bonnie has been my main Feldenkrais teacher for the past 10 or 11 years. I've participated in her Monday night class religiously for that time and have also taken all of the workshops she offers, some more than once, as well as numerous private sessions. What I value about Bonnie is her curiosity, her exploratory style, and the wisdom she gained from training with Moshe Feldenkrais directly. It took me many years to recognize the truth of what Bonnie was sharing: that the Feldenkrais method is not at all about doing repetitive movements for exercise, but is a unique experiential learning that involves doing minuscule, slow movements with awareness, to provide your brain with alternative suggestions for how to move, simply, effortlessly, even pleasurably. Since the Feldenkrais method is so different from anything most people are used to, most people trying it, including myself, fall into their habitual ways of moving, trying to "get it right" or do "it well". It is counterintuitive to recognize in an Awareness through Movement class that "achieving" the movement itself has absolutely no value whatsoever. Bonnie is very good at reminding people that it is the process of slowing down, doing smaller and smaller movements, and training your awareness to notice differences that the real improvement happens." G.C.