Sonja is an Assistant Trainer and experienced teacher of the Feldenkrais Method® with a full-time private practice in Berkeley since 1997. Sonja offers individualized hands-on sessions for adults, children, and seniors. She also teaches group classes and leads somatic workshops and retreats. In addition, Sonja teaches and continues to develop Creative Learning Through Movement — a movement-based, social-emotional curriculum for children. She has taught workshops to teachers, parents and somatic educators. Since 1997, Sonja has been teaching classes once a week to children as part of the curriculum at private elementary schools.
Sonja's work is deeply informed by her many years of ongoing individual and professional group studies with Stanley Keleman, the founder of Formative Psychology®. Sonja has a black belt in Aikido and an MA in Dance. Her background in both Aikido and Dance also influences her work. Sonja's decades of experience and love for working with children inspire, motivate and inform her practice daily.
