Our Core Faculty

Paul Rubin and Julie Casson Rubin, Certified Feldenkrais Method Trainers and Practitioners, are the Educational Directors of our Training Programs for Certification as Teacher of the Feldenkrais Method in Chicago; Basel, Switzerland; and Turin, Italy.

Paul Rubin, Certified Feldenkrais Teacher and Certified Feldenkrais Trainer, founder and Executive Director of ISSE, has been lead Educational Director for nine Certification Trainings for Feldenkrais Teacher/Practitioners in Cincinnati, Chicago, San Francisco, Australia, Switzerland, and Italy.  Paul has taught as Guest Faculty in Feldenkrais Training programs in France, Germany, Australia, the U.K., and Italy. As Chair of the North American Training Accreditation Board 1993-1997 and founding member of the Training Accreditation Boards for both Europe and Australia/South Pacific, Paul has contributed significantly to the evolution of training programs and procedures world wide.    Paul, a graduate of the 1975-77 Feldenkrais Professional Teacher Training in San Francisco, is one of only 80 people to have completed training entirely under Dr. Feldenkrais and to have received diploma from him. Additionally, Dr. Feldenkrais served as Chair of Paul’s PhD committee at the Humanistic Psychology institute 1975-1978.   Julie Casson Rubin,  Certified Feldenkrais Method Trainer and Certified Feldenkrais Teacher is co-Founder of FCME and co-Educational Director of all nine ISSE Teacher Training programs. As a highly sought after and frequent Guest Trainer in programs in North America and Europe, and as a former member of the North American Training Accreditation Board, Julie has contributed to the evolution of training models the world over and has collaborated with other leaders in the field.   Julie has pioneered the use of the Feldenkrais Method in medical settings through her work at the ground breaking University of California’s San Francisco General Hospital Behavioral Medicine Clinic 1978 – 1988.   As a graduate of the 1975-77 Feldenkrais Professional Teacher Training in San Francisco, Julie is also one of the few Teacher/Practitioners trained entirely by Dr. Feldenkrais and to have received diploma from him.   Julie’s holds a degree in dance and physical education from San Francisco State University.   Julie has recorded a popular introductory series of Awareness through Movement lessons: Moving with Ease and Grace. Email julie@feldnet.com  for more information or to purchase  this set. "We believe that only immersion training and consistent supervised practice can promote the depth of sensory learning needed to embody the education given in a FELDENKRAIS training which will graduate people ready to practice the Method as teacher/practitioners. We will take no shortcuts nor make compromises in the quality of education given."          Julie Casson Rubin, Paul Rubin    ______________________________ In an exciting new collaboration, we welcome Certified Feldenkrais Trainer Deborah Bowes and Certified Assistant Trainer Cliff Smyth who join us as Core Faculty for our new San Francisco Feldenkrais Training Program to begin in January 2008. Deborah Bowes, P.T. and Certified Feldenkrais Teacher and Trainer brings the diversity of her long experience in related fields as well as from her strong and continuous private practice in San Francisco since 1987.  She has 30 years of experience teaching in private practice, schools, hospitals and clinics. Starting as a Physical Education teacher in 1973, she has always been intrigued by the relationship of learning, movement and self-image. She earned her Physical Therapy degree from Columbia University in 1975, and became a Feldenkrais Practitioner in 1987. Since 1994 she has taught in Feldenkrais training programs in the U.S., Germany and Australia. In 2000 she became a Certified Trainer of the Feldenkrais Method, the first Physical Therapist to do so. Deborah is known as innovator in the design of teaching modules for Feldenkrais Teacher Training programs and in applications of the Feldenkrais Method. She is co-founder of the Feldenkrais Center for Movement Education in San Francisco, maintaining a full-time private practice working with adults and children. She co-developed the Delayed Recovery Center, a mind/body approach to pain and injury in the Occupational Health Clinic of Kaiser Permanente Medical Center. She’s a consultant to several pain programs and her CD Awareness Through Movement Program is used in them.   Her other relevant studies include Tai Chi Chuan, martial arts, yoga, Chinese medicine, sensory awareness, Middendorf breath work, and dancing.   She has recorded two Awareness through Movement CD sets Discover Easy Movement and Pain Relief and Pelvic Health and Awareness for Women and Men. Available at http://www.learningforhealth.com/      Cliff Smyth has extensive experience teaching in Feldenkrais teacher training programs in Australia, Europe and the USA, including assisting Deborah, Julie and Paul in a number of trainings. He has maintained a successful private practice for 15 years – first in Melbourne, Australia, and now in San Francisco.    Cliff has served for 14 years as President or on Boards of the International Feldenkrais Federation (IFF) – the international organization of Feldenkrais professional associations. He was a key contributor to the creation of archives and publication of Moshé Feldenkrais’ teaching materials. He has helped organize international efforts to Competency Profiles to be applied to graduating Teachers of the Feldenkrais Method.   He is known for his clinical and artistic applications of the Method, for example in the prevention and rehabilitation of hand and arm injuries and for use of Awareness Through Movement in creative writing processes.    Prior to teaching Feldenkrais he worked as a high school teacher, in adult education and the arts. He is very interested in the relationship between embodiment, self-image, language and society.     Cliff has recorded the Awareness through Movement CD set Easy Hands and Arm available at http://www.learningforhealth.com/