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The Feldenkrais Method® & Hakomi
The Feldenkrais Method® & Hakomi
The Feldenkrais Method ®
The Feldenkrais Method® is a proven system of intervention that teaches patients to alter their bodies' movement patterns to alleviate pain and/or recover lost abilities. By offering a unique, whole systems integration approach, it is designed to improve the experiential process of how we think, feel, sense and move-and ultimately self-regulate our health and well-being in everyday life.
After reading practitioner biographies below, you can learn more about how conventional Physical Therapy
and The Feldenkrais Method®
are successfully integrated at Alliant.
Dr. Tim Sobie, PT, Ph.D.
Clinical Director, Physical TherapistPrincipal Investigator in Clinical ResearchGuild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (CM)
Having helped thousands of persons with complex pain syndromes, debilitating mobility problems, or everyday discomforts, Dr. Tim Sobie, Ph.D. is the founder and clinical director of Alliant Continuum Care, Physical Therapy and Integral Medicine, PLLC. Tim has over 30 years’ experience as a physical therapist and over 20 years’ experience as a Feldenkrais Method® practitioner with 5+ years as a clinical applications principal investigator and scientific researcher.
A native of Michigan, he earned his physical therapy degree from the OUHSC Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, subsequently traveling to small and mid-sized cities nationwide to direct various hospital-based physical therapy departments—including the Champus partnership at Madigan Army Medical Center.
Selecting the Pacific Northwest as the place to settle, he completed the Oregon Feldenkrais Method® Professional Training Program through the Movement Studies Institute of Berkeley, California, and earned a Masters of Science degree in Behavioral Medicine from the Behavioral Physiology Institutes of Bainbridge Island while co-attending Whole Systems Design studies through Antioch University, Seattle. In addition, Tim has completed interdisciplinary mind-body medicine and bodywork training through the Center for Mind Body Medicine in Washington D.C., and has most recently completed his clinical research dissertation at Saybrook University to earn a Ph.D. degree in Psychology with a sub-specialization in Psycho-physiology for the study of neurologically mediated and brain-based chronic pain mechanisms-and for developing innovative applications in their novel treatment.
Tim is a licensed and preferred provider for most major health insurance plans under the classification Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation. He also works with acute trauma, injuries, or accidents. His expansive scope of practice draws from multiple areas and fields with proven track records, and is thereby quite likely to make a more definitive and sustainable difference in the quality and expression of your own or another person’s individual situation – however it has been previously treated or classified, or whatever it may be.
Seek through yourself to make an actual difference. Call today for your individualized consultation or appointment: (253) 572-4611.
Jennifer Miller, B.Sc., GCFP, PT Aide
Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (CM)
Jennifer Miller received her certification as a Feldenkrais practitioner in October 2015, studying under Angel & Richard DiBennedetto in Kirkland, WA. She was drawn to the work in 2012 after searching for an alternative therapy to help her son, who has Cerebral Palsy. She has a passion for helping infants, children and those with neurological conditions.
At Alliant, she is available by appointment Saturday mornings and select weekdays, treating both children and adults at our Tacoma location. She also teaches Liberating Movement, a weekly Awareness Through Movement Workshop every Tuesday at 10:00 AM.
To learn more about Jennifer and her practice, check out her website Liberating Movement for further details.
Body Centered Psychotherapy / Hakomi ®
Hakomi Experiential Psychotherapy is based on five principles: mindfulness, non-violence, unity, organicity and mind-body holism. At its most basic level, Hakomi is the therapeutic expression of a specific set of Principles: Mindfulness, Nonviolence, Unity, Organicity and Mind-Body Integration.
Hakomi Therapy relies on mindfulness of body sensations, emotions and body memories. Although many therapists now recommend mindfulness meditation to support psychotherapy, Hakomi is unique in that it conducts the majority of the therapy session in mindfulness.
Working with the client's implicit knowing of early and continuing experiences, Hakomi as a somatic ‘body-centered’ psychology approach includes the non-verbal qualities that mark most human communication, especially in the first years of life. The facilitated experience of in-depth consciousness, inter-communication, and mind-body presence as a shared and empathetic felt-sense challenges many traditional approaches of usual ‘talking cure’ based psychotherapy sessions and /or more commonly implemented cognitive-behavioral and brief therapy counseling models. The effects of ‘feeling deeply supported’ are aptly effective in diffusing social stresses being encountered in our daily relationships with others – past or present. And the diffusion of tension is noticeable.
Roxanne Peterson, PhD, RN, LMHC
Somatic Hakomi Practitioner
Roxanne has over 30 years as a health practitioner. A native of Iowa, she found her way to the Northwest as a Registered Nurse in the United States Navy. Roxanne chose Washington State as a place to live and pursued a master’s degree and a doctorate at the University of Washington. Her interests include mind/body medicine, pain management, and the relationship between thought and stress.
She is especially interested in how movement can be used to re-pattern habitual reactions that are limiting to responses that result in a freeing more enjoyable life. Roxanne has continued to explore mindfulness-centered therapies and is a Certified Hakomi body-centered therapist. She co-teaches “Quieting the Mind” and other Personhood workshops (see: www.seattlehakomi.com/faculty/).
Roxanne enjoys nature, Yoga Nidra, family time and recently became a Grandma.
