A note from Nick:
In 2015, after years of doing Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons and teaching them to hundreds of students, I started recording them and offering the recordings online, at no charge, as a personal passion project. My vision was simply to share the life-changing benefits of the Feldenkrais Method as widely as possible. Interest took off, and as the project grew I realized I could not sustain it given my technology costs and volunteered time. On a whim, I created a PayPal donate button and asked my listeners for support.
To my amazement, listeners began to contribute! Then and now, thanks to free-will, heartfelt donations from the global and growing Feldenkrais Project community, there’s still no paywall for students who may not be able to access Feldenkrais classes or one-to-one lessons, or want a great resource for studying Feldenkrais at home.
After a few years I dreamed of having a unique website and name for the growing lesson collection and community. We started fundraising for this Feldenkrais Project website in September, 2018. The fundraising campaign was an amazing success. We raised over $8000, which we used to pay our web developer, our consultant, and our artist (see below). Construction began January 2019 and the site launched in early March.
During the global pandemic we substantially increased all that we offer, for free users and donors. To this day our community, lesson collection, study tools, and outreach efforts continue to expand, in pursuit of our vision and mission.
The Feldenkrais Project wouldn’t exist without all our listeners and donors, nor without the Founders and Sustainers whose generosity invigorated our fundraising efforts to build this website.
Here are the people who made the present state of the Feldenkrais Project possible, including the professionals our donation revenue pays!
Our current team:
- Barbara Schendel: Webmaster, creative partner, current artist, WordPress membership coder and consultant, and original technical designer. WizzyWig Websites & Design for Small Business.
- Eileen Schaubert: Community Support Assistant
- Kamalpreet Singh: Programmer
Past support:
- Ilona Fried, self described “Feldenkrais Champion”, for project guidance from 2018-2021 including strategic planning, fundraising, marketing, writing and so much more.
- Matt Christenson: WordPress website building by GEEK, with a personality.
- Anita White, our original visual artist.
Patient and generous loved ones:
- Mike and Eric, dear friends, for their many volunteered hours and good humor as they shared their technical help and audio expertise as the site was built.
- My wonderful and generous wife Jen, for her unconditional love, for believing in my vision, for supporting my long hours of website building, and for lending her voice! (“You’re listening to a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lesson…”).
- My four children, for all the love and fun always waiting for me when I closed the computer, and for their patience and curiosity, who at our 2019 site launch (when they were 12, 9, 6, and 2) were constantly asking “Is it done…yet?!!!”
Please join me in offering all these people a huge THANK YOU for undertaking a massive project, bringing us to launch, supporting our community, and enabling our improvements over the years!
Nick Strauss-Klein
What a beautiful and inspiring True story, what a gift to the world. Thank you!
Most importantly, you are a great inspiring and generous teacher. That is the Real Gift!
Thanks for this lovely comment! I’m proud of what we’ve done, and grateful to all who use, share, and support this website!