Email and Phone Consultation
My private practice, classes, and workshops involve direct face-to-face contact, and this is how I prefer to work. I have found, however, that I can also help people gain greater self-awareness, and learn to move more easily and efficiently, through email and phone consultation.
- I will respond to questions via email or phone at no charge.
- If your problem is complex and will require significant amounts of time, I will let you know that I will charge for further consultation, and what the terms will be. You may then choose whether or not to continue.
A combination of email and phone consultation can be highly effective. It works as follows:
- You send me email describing your problem and what you would like to gain from working with me. I read and respond to that email, and outline how we should proceed. There is no charge at this point.
- We set up a phone consultation, during which we might discuss such things as:
- the role that factors such as excess effort, poor body organization, and lack of self-awareness play in the difficulties you are experiencing,.
- practices such as Feldenkrais, T'ai Chi, yoga, and meditation, and what you can gain from them,
- what you should look for in a practitioner near you, and how to best utilize what you get from that practitioner,
- how to integrate what you learn from practices such as these into your ongoing life and work, including specific things you can do to facilitate that integration.
- I will also guide you through Awareness Through Movement segments and other experiential explorations designed to illustrate and clarify awareness and movement concepts, and to help you experience the kinds of changes that you want to create in your life. These explorations might involve mini-Awareness Through Movement lessons or other ways of moving, acting, and noticing. If you are also working with my Awareness Through Movement tapes, we might explore the experiences those tapes are meant to evoke in greater depth.
The objective of our work together should be to change the way you experience yourself. These experiential explorations thus lie at the core of our consultations. Discussion at the intellectual level is of value primarily to further and support experiential change.
My charge for phone consultation is $100 per hour, rounded up to the next quarter hour. This includes a tape of the consultation. During the first session, you may terminate the session within 30 minutes without charge if you feel you are not benefiting from it. You will also be responsible for initiating (and hence paying for) the phone call.
For further information or to set up a consultation, please email me at or call 310/454-8322.