Testimonials

I look forward to individual and group classes.  Spent two nights waitressing and bussing tables for two events at work.  Astounded at my energy and no foot pain. And my body seems to be better than ever.

“Thank you, Peggi. I always love your lessons and reflections.  As ever your weekly reflections are a good prompt for thought, making connections old and new, and helpful for elucidating the powerful effect of experiential Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement lessons.  As I am in a different time zone, I now welcome switching on my computer (a compulsion or a choice?!) on a Monday morning and receiving your weekly food for thought, feeling and movement.  At some level, conscious and/or unconscious, your reflections stay with me and simmer through the week!

I’m in Australia & met you” by Zoom A sincere thank you for your free library, & interesting, knowledgeable writings. I loved your interview & your soft caring voice in teaching. Thank you again, I’m grateful for the lessons & any advice you may be comfortable giving.

Hi Peggi,
thanks for your offer to give us access to the audio files, much appreciated!Your class is my favourite and the last thing in the evening I enjoy (the class starts at 9 pm here in Germany) Have a wonderful weekend,
Baabie

Dear Peggi, thank you so much for opening so many of your lessons. I am enjoying every minute of these classes. Heartfelt gratitude from Ukraine.

You are the most gracious, kind and wonderful mentor. I loved this weekend, ref: F-PAT, April 12 – 14

“Thanks, Peggi. I am so grateful to you for your positivity and tremendous skills in teaching Feldenkrais. Turning 80 this year and feeling as well as I do in my mind is mostly your doing!”

Since our last session I have been sleeping and getting up without pain! This method and you as the teacher are amazing!

Peggi has been one of my favorite teachers since I first met her years ago in the NYC teacher training program. She’s one of those rare teachers who truly cares to be empathetic, free of bias, patient, respectful, aware, disciplined, and professional. She creates a safe and caring environment, necessary for the vulnerable and deep learning that occurs with Feldenkrais. She has got to be one of the best FI practitioners in all the world! Each time I’ve had an FI lesson with her, I come away completely transformed. She’s totally present with me in a way that allows for a truly integrative and magical experience.

Peggi,

Hi, good wishes and many thanks for your devotion to our class. I truly believe I did not get Covid and can move about is because of Feldenkrais.

Hope to see you tomorrow.
Sharon

I’m 72 years old and have been taking Feldenkrais lessons  by way of Zoom from Peggi for 2+ years. When I saw a technician for a health test the other day, the woman said to me “you have the gait of a thirty year old. What do you do for exercise?”

“I tried one of your free lessons today and moved out of pain quickly. I have loved trying a variety of lessons by different practitioners lately, but I find that yours are the loveliest for relieving pain and being kind and curious with myself.”

Feldenkrais is the best thing that ever happened to me. I want to do some in-person visits!

Thank you for this year. Your classes have gotten me through the pandemic and so much more. I have a new body. I can’t really describe how but I feel different. Look forward to being on the floor more. Here’s to 6 more months.

I appreciate that this is a slow process and will take time to unravel so will enjoy the journey! Practicing Feldenkrais has been great for me to relax and go more with the flow. Since our lesson, I definitely feel subtle changes and something has shifted! So exciting…… This method truly is a life changer. If only everyone who strives and efforts as I did, realized that.

Looking back over this year, your classes have been among the best experiences of the year 2020. I think about how I move when I walk, when I stand and cook, when I sit and read or knit (and need to also use my arms and hands). I try to relax into comfort and to pay attention to what would make something easier or more productive. Sometimes I do a lot of very physical activity. It was possible without pain. Instead, I felt energized and refreshed. You have helped with all of this.
Thank you,
Let’s ring in a New Year of new possibility and growth,

It was a great opportunity to have you in person during this awful year. You are an amazing teacher. Hopefully this next year is much better for everyone. Know that you provided an hour or more several times a week of relaxation and focus and help us find our babyselves.

“Thank you for your F.I. It was the perfect thing for me before my practicum. All went well – Thank you for the Bday gift of Feldenkrais!”

“We worked together previously in an in-person Functional Integration format which I truly enjoyed.  The new Guided Learning format exceeded my expectations for what was possible in a Zoom enable Guided Learning Session.  It felt very much like an in-person Functional Integration.  I felt significantly better in my whole being and felt a renewed joy in my shoulders.  The session made my day and two days later I am still skipping, smiling and happily swinging my arms with joy.”

“I am delighted to have just discovered your library of lessons. . . . Thank you!
Looking forward to exploring with your guidance, and appreciating so much your gift of a source reference for each lesson, inviting me to explore more deeply my own journey as well.
Wishing you further rich investigations, and much joy.”

“I have done so many different types of bodywork and medical interventions with so many different diagnoses.  I have lived with extreme chronic pain for years and as a result working and learning with Peggi Honig in the Feldenkrais Method, I have a life again with comfort and ease.  I don’t have pain, the issues or the distress have been mediated through my experience with Peggi! I have ways now to explore that change how I am organizing myself for the better! “

“Sincere gratitude for you participation in the training and for your clear and generous teaching!”

“The session with you was wonderful and has sent me on an amazing eye opening pathway to improving my placement of weight with gravity.”

Dear Peggi-
Thank you for the great workshop! I learn from you so much every time. So much to process and absorb! Love it.

“Thank you soooo much for the wonderful lesson last evening.  Decided to be a “good student” and applied what I watched (as well as experienced) when getting out of bed this morning.  Took the time required (I think) and listened to the body (again…I think) with each and every movement.  Was there pain?  Yes, at times, but I am still learning…and will continue to do so!”

“Our last spring semester class with Sibley Hospital certainly is helpful towards maintaining stress relief and with that, a very positive outlook. I practice what we learned whenever I slide into my “Must move every Mountain” phase and realize, moving in my mind through some of the routines does bring peace along with just tiny mole hills. Please know that your kind input is deeply appreciated and your caring enough to follow up is always a comfort.”

“I felt like a different human being walking out of your office. I said to myself, “Lord, If I can walk like this now, I know I can do this every day and I can move like this at home. Thank you for everything Peggi, you are so precious and have helped me so much.”

“Your suggestion to focus on horizon for posture has been a miracle cure for me. Of course I have to continuously remind myself, but when I do everything goes into alignment and nothing hurts when walking.”

“Peggi has helped me with many of my physical issues. I attend both her group session and have private sessions with her. She is so skilled that she is able to modify her instructional methodology to accommodate the needs of various conditions and people. I highly recommend her for her excellent Feldenkrais instruction, her empathy, and her knowledge of Feldenkrais prinicples.”

“I really find the classes helpful (I was very skeptical — and wrong about that!).  Feel like I am finding my skeleton and that it can help make my movements easier, especially if I relax”

“I highly recommend Peggi’s workshops. She is a knowledgeable, intelligent and vivacious teacher. You will leave feeling better and knowing more about yourself

“With a small degree of reluctance, I followed my wife to a Feldenkrais class. I am glad I did .The sessions are unlike any other fitness regime I am familiar with. The class, under the direction of Certified Feldenkrais practitioner Peggi focuses on gentle movement and directed attention to improve movement and enhance human functioning. It is unlike anything I have encountered before. I have found that it is heightening my awareness of habitual and ingrained patterns of how I move my body. The Feldenkrais Method can increase your ease and range of motion, improve your flexibility and coordination. Peggi shows us ways of moving that may be more optimal and easier on our bodies. Aches and pains that I have lived with are slowly disappearing and I am now hooked on the classes.”

“A note to thank you for making the time to see me yesterday. I am so appreciative of your super caring style and absolute positive-energy and ability to communicate the premise behind Feldenkrais healing. “

“I remain deeply, deeply grateful for your tender and highly specialized and subjective input into my awakening… and gifts at the end of FeldBalt IV training and have spent much of the last 4 months integrating the work in a way that empowers me to ‘bring forth that which is within me’ and for which I was made.”

“I am so grateful for your daily classes, Peggi. They help me cope with all the craziness!”

“The Feldenkrais Method is the art of functional movement exploration.  In it we explore the movement options available looking for simplicity and ease of movement”…cultivating or evoking a specific form of neurological activity that fosters the discovery and learning of these preferable options.”

“The Feldenkrais Method is the art of functional movement exploration. In it we explore the movement options available looking for simplicity and ease of movement.”

“My method is the integration of the skeletal, developmental, environmental, and neuromuscular systems.”

“Feldenkrais is not just pushing muscles around; it’s changing things in the brain itself.”

“[Feldenkrais] is the most sophisticated and effective method I have seen for the prevention and reversal of deterioration of function.”

“I recommend the Feldenkrais Method to patients whose movement has been restricted by injury, cerebral palsy, stroke, fibromyalgia, and chronic pain. I also believe that the Feldenkrais Method can help all of us feel more comfortable in our bodies.”

“The Feldenkrais Method encourages and empowers people to shift the source of their guidance in life from the external authority structures they learned growing up to the internal authority structure that comes from learning to develop and listen to the deep “sense of rightness” that is our biological birthright, but that society teaches us to deaden and distrust.”

“Only after learning to pay attention to the physical sensations in my body and being attuned to the slightest movement of my joints and muscles did I come to appreciate the delicate reorganization of postural and motor patterns in my brain that occurred by listening to Peggi Honig and following her instruction of the Feldenkrais method. As a practicing neuroscientist certified in geriatrics and psychiatry, I am well acquainted with the latest knowledge concerning the continual regeneration of neurons in the brain and our on-going ability to alter our thoughts and behavior throughout life despite being senior citizens.”

“After taking Gentle Yoga for a few weeks, we had a substitute named Peggi Honig who said she was going to teach “Feldenkrais,” I was eager.  That was over three years ago and the results are very discernible.  I am in my 60s, but there are students in their teens as well as a pregnant 29-year-old. I recommend Feldenkrais to everyone I encounter, no matter what age.  And I might add that Peggi Honig is a gifted teacher.  Peggi always refers to babies’ motions as the prime example of moving our bodies to benefit our whole being.  My one-year-old grandson is living proof of this as we roll around on the floor together.  I don’t think this would ever have been possible without my Feldenkrais classes.”

“We are now fortunate to have the leadership of Peggi Honig. You don’t need to know anything about the underlying philosophy or method.  You become aware of many of the principals through her guidance, comments, and anecdotes. There are few periods in my week where I am so focused in the moment on myself. I find there are few things where I can exert so little effort, yet yield so much in return.”

“This was among the very most impactful FI’s, if not the most impactful FI I have received.  I look forward to our lessons in the future.”

“My hope is Feldenkrais continues to build as we all need to become more aware of how our individual bodies function!  I want to tell you that I thought last week’s lesson was awesome.  I really got good results from it.  Thanks!!!”

“Thank you for your patience and for being such a visionary.. such a magical, wonderful teacher.. instructor.. and role model. Thank you for helping me with my recovery this far…Thank you for taking so much time to help with everything.”

“If I were asked, here’s in a nutshell what I would say: “As taught by Peggi Honig, Feldenkrais Awareness is a kind of poetry of the body that works its way into the soul.”

“Peggi has an intrinsic skill set that allows students to delve into self awareness and care. She guides in a positive, playful and gentle way that gives you tools to let go of the familiar habits we cling to in order to make room for healthier, more efficient and effective ways of moving through our world. She is so intuitive and observant of individual needs. I feel fortunate to have the opportunity to understand the Feldenkrais Method through her guidance, both in her classes and in personal sessions”

“I have participated in Awareness Through Movement (ATM) classes and have had private (FI) sessions with Peggi as well. Her calm soothing voice that guides you through an ATM class or her gentle touch in a private session has helped me move through the pain and discomfort I have been living with. I was pleasantly surprised that such small gentle movements could so quickly impact the way I move and feel. The Feldenkrais Method is wonderful and with Peggi’s guidance and support I am continuing to learn more ways to move with ease and comfort.”

“After your amazing ATM today, which I did the smallest of movements in, I ran 6 miles with a 10 min mile average. I never ran a half mile in 3:40. Thats good for me. I concentrated on allowing my shoulders to move and my head follow. It was profound.  Thank you for your excellent teaching.”

Thank you for the class. I am already reaping benefits and find myself less likely to get rigid…when I do, I stop and ‘wiggle’. The energy and ‘heart’ that accompany your technical expertise are noteworthy.

“I like to thank you for your Feldenkrais lessons. I am happy to do the lesson every day and find them very interesting and inspiring. I feel your special and personal directions are special and going to places I never went to. Thank you so much, your lessons make my day.”