Dear Students:
I love exploring and teaching Feldenkrais® eye lessons because the changes for most people are so powerful that one could call them miraculous. That is exactly how I felt after benefitting from them on my path to overcoming leg pain.
I had ankle surgery in 2001, due to an old gymnastics injury that became debilitating. Afterwards, I experienced the same leg pain that I had before the surgery. Being a Feldenkrais® Practitioner, I wasn’t surprised 
because I was moving with the same pre-surgery movement pattern and the trauma of the operation accentuated it. Knowing this I was excited to engage upon the process of learning how to walk, dance and flip again without leg pain. The most effective way I was able to do this was by gaining awareness about the habitual way I used my eyes and by slowly changing it.
I discovered that my dominant right eye didn’t allow me to stand fully on my left leg. After learning to use my eyes more symmetrically I was able to stand in a way that didn’t cause me any discomfort. When I discovered the behavioral & emotional components that coincided with my physical habit, I was able to establish more quickly an efficient way of standing and maintain it. This was when I became able to do all that I wanted from hiking to ice skating.
Most of the time during this long and enriching process the way I used my eyes was elusive to me. Gratefully, my curiosity; the belief in myself; and my faith in the wisdom behind the Feldenkrais Method®, kept pushing me forward. Without these traits, I might have given up.
I think the Awareness Through Movement® lessons that focus on the movements of the eyes are brilliant! Every day when I stand and walk without pain I thank Moshe Feldenkrais for giving us his knowledge in this attainable way.
David Webber was blind when he experienced his first Awareness Through Movement® lesson. It was a life altering moment when he realized during that lesson that he could learn how to see again.
Following are his words: “The Feldenkrais® lesson seemed to disarm my defenses. The constant and surprising shifts of attention throughout the lesson, and the explicit search to notice differences, kept me interested, alert, and engaged in the process. I was ripe for change.” ~David Webber; (The Brain’s Way of Healing by Norman Doidge, M.D., page 214)
David explains so completely why I never tire from learning through this method and why I am so excited to teach my next workshop, Quieting the Eyes, Quieting the Mind on Feb. 27th. I believe after attending this workshop you may learn to see clearly the miraculous healing powers that lie behind your eyes!
~Donna