Ruthy Alon is a Senior Trainer in the Feldenkrais Method® and creator of the Bones for Life wellness program. For eight years, from 1959–1967, Ruthy attended Moshe Feldenkrais’ weekly classes in Tel Aviv, where she learned the guided movement processes he later called “Awareness Through Movement”®, during the years that Moshe Feldenkrais was well known in Israel as the personal tutor of Prime Minister Ben-Gurion.

Creator of The Feldenkrais Method, the distinguished scientist and educator Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984) earned his doctorate in Physics at the Sorbonne and later was an associate to the Nobel Prize laureate Frederic Joliot-Curie in Paris. He was also the first European to earn a black belt in judo and is credited with introducing the sport to the West.

Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. is the originator and developer of Somatic Experiencing® and the Director of The Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute. He holds doctorate degrees in Medical Biophysics and in Psychology. During his thirty five-year study of stress and trauma, Dr. Levine has contributed to a variety of scientific and popular publications. 

Brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor studied her own stroke as it happened — and has become a powerful voice for brain recovery.

One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor's brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness ...