My Experience with The Feldenkrais Method®
I was introduced to the Feldenkrais Method® while on a full-merit scholarship to Cornish College of the Arts in Dance. Towards the end of my Freshman year, I sustained severe injuries relating to how I moved and danced. Over a year and a half after being crippled on crutches, I had tried various therapies and healing methods with minimal or temporary results.
In the Feldenkrais Method® class at Cornish, I completed twelve Awareness Through Movement® lessons and one privately taught Functional Integration® lesson. I fully-recovered from my injuries and returned to dance classes and performance rehearsals, dancing pain-free to my absolute ability! The profound effect the Feldenkrais Method® had on my life inspired me to continue my education. After graduating from Cornish College of the Arts holding a BFA in Dance with minor(s) in Kinesiology and Musical Theater, I attended four years of Feldenkrais® training to become a professional practitioner.
As an individual who went from barely being able to move, to the peak of the movement spectrum, I relate to a broad range of movement experiences. In the second of my four years of Feldenkrais® training, I reinvented my movement capabilities by teaching myself Contortion. I performed as a professional Dance Contortionist for two years while finishing my Feldenkrais® training. In 2006, I graduated from the Seattle Eastside Feldenkrais® Training as a Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner. Since then, I continued to build my Feldenkrais® practice and perform my Dance Contortion acts throughout the US until I retired from performing in 2016 to focus on my Feldenkrais® practice full time.
While in Los Angeles from 2009-2025, I split my time working at a renowned physical therapy practice, The Center for Physical Health, Jahoon Healing Center where my work was featured on the Emmy Award-winning television series Eye on LA, and my own private mobile practice offering house calls to client's offices and homes. Various doctors and surgeons have referred patients with difficult movement and functionality challenges directly to me and through The Feldenkrais Method® and our collaborative expertise, we were able to help rehabilitate them. With one client's case in particular, we nearly ameliorated their cerebral palsy symptoms, helping the student retire all his assistive walking aids and begin to move freely under his own power. I have worked with people ages 2-94 and have experience working with people who are recovering from injury, surgeries, musculoskeletal issues, various Nervous System Disorders including but not limited to Auto-Immune disorders, MS, Parkinson's Disease, Migraine sufferers, comatose patients, and people in Hospice. With over 30 years of professional movement experience, I am confident that I can assist you with any movement issues, pain, or challenges that you may face. I invite you to discover what your movement dreams are and to explore the unrealized possibilities you have held within.
Jessica Zarins, B.F.A., G.C.F.P.(CM)
I was introduced to the Feldenkrais Method® while on a full-merit scholarship to Cornish College of the Arts in Dance. Towards the end of my Freshman year, I sustained severe injuries relating to how I moved and danced. Over a year and a half after being crippled on crutches, I had tried various therapies and healing methods with minimal or temporary results.
In the Feldenkrais Method® class at Cornish, I completed twelve Awareness Through Movement® lessons and one privately taught Functional Integration® lesson. I fully-recovered from my injuries and returned to dance classes and performance rehearsals, dancing pain-free to my absolute ability! The profound effect the Feldenkrais Method® had on my life inspired me to continue my education. After graduating from Cornish College of the Arts holding a BFA in Dance with minor(s) in Kinesiology and Musical Theater, I attended four years of Feldenkrais® training to become a professional practitioner.
As an individual who went from barely being able to move, to the peak of the movement spectrum, I relate to a broad range of movement experiences. In the second of my four years of Feldenkrais® training, I reinvented my movement capabilities by teaching myself Contortion. I performed as a professional Dance Contortionist for two years while finishing my Feldenkrais® training. In 2006, I graduated from the Seattle Eastside Feldenkrais® Training as a Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner. Since then, I continued to build my Feldenkrais® practice and perform my Dance Contortion acts throughout the US until I retired from performing in 2016 to focus on my Feldenkrais® practice full time.
While in Los Angeles from 2009-2025, I split my time working at a renowned physical therapy practice, The Center for Physical Health, Jahoon Healing Center where my work was featured on the Emmy Award-winning television series Eye on LA, and my own private mobile practice offering house calls to client's offices and homes. Various doctors and surgeons have referred patients with difficult movement and functionality challenges directly to me and through The Feldenkrais Method® and our collaborative expertise, we were able to help rehabilitate them. With one client's case in particular, we nearly ameliorated their cerebral palsy symptoms, helping the student retire all his assistive walking aids and begin to move freely under his own power. I have worked with people ages 2-94 and have experience working with people who are recovering from injury, surgeries, musculoskeletal issues, various Nervous System Disorders including but not limited to Auto-Immune disorders, MS, Parkinson's Disease, Migraine sufferers, comatose patients, and people in Hospice. With over 30 years of professional movement experience, I am confident that I can assist you with any movement issues, pain, or challenges that you may face. I invite you to discover what your movement dreams are and to explore the unrealized possibilities you have held within.
Jessica Zarins, B.F.A., G.C.F.P.(CM)