Sabine Schmid Blackaby

After many years working as a Kindergarten teacher (Reception) in Switzerland and exploring various movement modalities in my free time, I trained as a Feldenkrais teacher in Italy, becoming a practitioner in 1997. Since then I have been developing my private practice alongside teaching regular classes and workshops.

In 2006 I completed a Feldenkrais mentoring course in Amsterdam and I now also work with students taking part in a Feldenkrais training or with newly qualified practitioners. In 2011 I took part in the Chava Shelhav Child'Space training in Amsterdam where I deepened my understanding of how to apply the theory of the Feldenkrais Method to working with babies, children and their parents. I now offer courses for parents and babies where the parents learn to observe and support their baby's motor, speech, cognitive and social development with touch and guided movement in small groups. I also work individually with babies and children with developmental or neurological challenges. I later assisted and then co-taught in the subsequent Child'Space trainings in Amsterdam and have become an Assitant Trainer in the Feldenkrais Method in 2020.

In my private practise, classes and workshops I enjoy working with children and adults of all ages and abilities. Many people I work with experience restrictions in movement and pain and are looking for ways to learn to move more easily and comfortably. Others are wanting to improve everyday activities or an existing skill in sports, dance, drama, music or the martial arts. I also help people who are recovering from an injury and work with people with neurological disturbances such as Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, Cerebral Palsy.

I endeavor to create a safe and stimulating learning environment where people learn from their own exploration and experience guided by their curiosity and sensations of comfort and ease. I am interested in helping people sense themselves and the way they move, think and feel more clearly so that movement habits and holding patterns can become perceptible and we can find ways to reduce effort and learn to move and act more freely, comfortably and efficiently in life.

I am continuously intrigued and inspired by the Feldenkrais Methods combination of movement, learning and psychology and by our human potential for growth and well-being.