Nikhila - Biographical Sketch

My work with the Feldenkrais Method is the culmination of a rich and lengthy personal journey with the two central themes of movement and meditation.

I’m a registered Feldenkrais practitioner and trained in Switzerland, with Elizabeth Beringer, graduating in 2005.  Since then my studies continue with Dr Ralph Strauch PhD, California, U.S.A, in the use of somatic methods such as the Feldenkrais Method for healing emotional trauma, and as tools for empowerment in everyday living. 

 

My own journey has led me to experience and understand that it is possible to effect a lasting re-education of the body/mind system through becoming aware of how one acts and moves. Injury heals; pain dissolves, one gradually frees oneself of old

self-limiting thought and movement patterns and is thus empowered to achieve one’s life’s desires and dreams. This process naturally involves a lessening in fear, anxiety and stress as one develops the skills to recover naturally.   I have learned that I can

be a pioneer in my own healing process. 

Previously I have taught meditation, tantra and yoga.

My spiritual master is Osho, I am Reiki II degree: a

 British Horse Society Assistant Instructor; I hold a National Diploma in Business Studies, and worked as a chef for ten years - on sailing yachts worldwide, and

in the city.   My other interests include chi kung, tai chi, latihan, dancing 5 rhythms and tango,  swimming, and walking anywhere in wild nature.

 

 My clients are mainly professional people, and are of all ages and abilities.  I also work with children  the youngest person  started at five months old.  My eldest client so far has been eldest eighty-eight.  I also work with horses and dogs.  I enjoy helping people find their way through meeting the challenges that life brings - often through pain, injury and disease but also out of a wish to do something they love, better.

I came across the Feldenkrais Method in 1995 in India. I had gone there for a 'final fling' as a nomad/traveller, with the idea of studying with some of the great yogis and becoming a yoga teacher, and learning massage, so that I could quit my old job as a cook.  Within 2 weeks of my arrival in India, however, I was introduced the work of Dr Feldenkrais, and to an enlightened spiritual master, which,  little did I realizeat the time,  would alter the course of my life.

I had suffered from chronic neck and back pain during the previous years I had worked as a cook.  I learned one simple lesson  which helped me so much that I wanted to train in the method - and here I am, several years later...

I grew up in Cornwall, and as a youngster, I rode horses a great deal almost professionally  ... and I took a fair number of falls (which I was proud of and stubborn about,  at the time) The resulting injuries crept up on me as I got older. At first, I ran, I weight-lifted, I stretched - anything physical to keep the stiffness and soreness at bay - but I knew it was only doing just that, deep down so, it was with great relief that I found the gentle, self-respecting way of Feldenkrais. I learned that there were previously undiscovered realms of wisdom in my body/mind that I could tap into...... Movement is the natural language of the nervous system, it is such a joy to discover the truth of oneself inside oneself through the simple medium of movement while healing  the pain as well - and my mission is to share this with others.