Donna Ray

Strengthening Your Hands and Arms the Feldenkrais Way

Looking for upper-body strength and coordination? Here's a way to reduce pain and discomfort in your hands and arms while increasing your power and strength. Whether it's pain and soreness from working a keyboard or any repetitive motions with your hand and arms, these lessons are for you.

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By Donna Ray

Looking for upper-body strength and coordination? Here's a way to reduce pain and discomfort in your hands and arms while increasing your power and strength. Whether it's pain and soreness from working a keyboard or any repetitive motions with your hand and arms, these lessons are for you.

Donna Ray is a Feldenkrais trainer and psychotherapist who developed these lessons after recovering from her own arm and neck injuries due to a car accident. The lessons are clearly taught and easy to follow. They focus on increasing the strength in the arms and hands by improving overall movement efficiency and organization. These lessons are recommended only for those with prior Feldenkrais Method experience.

CD 1
Lesson #1: Integrating the Arm with the Pelvis
Lesson #2: Organizing your upper Body Strength
CD 2:
Lesson #3: Using your Hands with the Rest of your Body
Lesson #4: Arm & Shoulder Flexibility
CD3:
Lesson #6: Finding Strength in your Arms
Donna Ray is the director of Feldenkrais Southern California and has taught in or directed numerous training programs, both in the U.S. and in Europe. She is a highly experienced teacher/trainer known for her ability to make connections in her teaching between abstract ideas and the concrete reality of daily practice.
 
Donna sees both children and adults in her private practice. She also works with people experiencing pain, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, preparation for childbirth and athletes. In addition to her Feldenkrais practice Donna works as a Marriage and Family Counselor and her Feldenkrais practice is informed by her psychological work and training, which includes Eriksonian Hypnosis, EMDR, Art Therapy and Dance.

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