Bridget Palmer

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Bridget Palmer, Feldenkrais Practitioner

TESTIMONIALS

“Bridget is an incredibly skilled Feldenkrais® Practitioner. From watching the way I walk and sit, she was able to diagnose and retrain me to move correctly. This fixed a problem that orthopedic doctors, MRIs, X-Rays, and medicine weren’t able to solve for two years. Her touch is very gentle and caring. If you want to improve athletic performance or ease pain or discomfort, I highly recommend working with Bridget.”
- Jenifer Levini, Entrepreneur

“Within 2 weeks Bridget helped me improve my walking coordination so that pain I’d felt in my knees and feet for years disappeared. My posture also improved and I have less tension in my neck and shoulders. Besides feeling better, I have a new understanding about how to maintain my new movement habits. I really encourage other people to try the Feldenkrais® approach. I think they’ll be amazed too!”
- Sue Byrne, Teacher

“I have been working with Bridget to improve motor skills using the Feldenkrais® Method for the last month and a half. I have bursitis in my hips and foot pain in my right foot. My walking skills have improved significantly! I recently returned from a trip to Chicago. I only had 10 minutes to catch the airporter. I ran through the terminal and made the connection. RAN!!!! I haven't been able to run in 9 years and no pain!!!"
- Richard Austin, Retired Teacher

Hi!

If you can't enjoy the activities which used to make you feel vibrant, strong, and enthusiastic about life, then you need the Feldenkrais Method®!

Feldenkrais® exercises will help you gently rebuild the neural connections underlying smooth, coordinated movement. You'll get stronger and more flexible, lighter on your feet, and your posture will improve.

Bridget Palmer
bridget@artoflivinginstitute.org
(707) 483-5800

BIO

Bridget Palmer, Director of Santa Rosa Children's Theater for the Santa Rosa Recreation & Park Department, and Producer/Director of 6th Street Improv at the 6th Street Playhouse, graduated from the Delman Professional Feldenkrais® Training Program in 2007. A long-time resident of Santa Rosa, Bridget cares deeply about the people of her community. She founded the Art of Living Institute in 2004, with the desire to help people learn to make their lives easier and more fun. She is particularly interested in helping people perform at their highest potential, without the internal feeling of tension that so often accompanies this desire.
Bridget brings her love of facilitating transformation through movement, imagination, and compassion to all her work. She has worked with athletes and performers, as well as individuals with trauma, chronic pain, or other neurological conditions that can be alleviated through Feldenkrais® movement lessons. Bridget thoroughly enjoys giving individual Feldenkrais Functional Integration® lessons as well as teaching Awareness Through Movement® classes and has been told that she's "amazing!"

You can reach Bridget at (707) 483-5800 or visit her website www.artoflivinginstitute.org for more information.

Opportunites to work with Bridget include:

FOR ADULTS

Individual Feldenkrais Functional Integration® Sessions
Individual Theater of Transformation Life Coaching
The Effortless Swing® Approach to Golf, private sessions available
Custom Workshops in Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® , Theater Improv, or Theater of Transformation

FOR CHILDREN
Individual Feldenkrais Functional Integration® Sessions
Visit http//:www.santarosarec.com to see my current Santa Rosa Children's Theater classes offered through SR Parks & Recreation
Acting Lessons

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Extensive performance experiences growing up
Acting Internship, Second Studio of Wroclaw, Poland
B.A., World College West, Art & Society, Theater Focus, 1989
Graduate Studies, U.C. Berkeley Ph.D. Program in Directing & Dramatic Scholarship
Teaching performing arts to children for S.R. Rec. & Parks Department since 1999
Authentic Movement training, SSU M.A. in Art Therapy Program
GCFP, Delman Professional Feldenkrais® Training Program, June 2007

PERSONAL
Bridget has been married to her husband Marek Cichosz for 23 years and has three fabulous children. She speaks Polish well and some Spanish. She lives in a three generation family where honoring everyone's needs and dreams is valued. She loves to dance, sing, act, direct, write, draw and grow vegetables in her summer garden.