Effort Made Good Team
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Candy Conino, PT, Feldenkrais Assistant Trainer
Candy Conino is a physical therapist, an Assistant Trainer in the Feldenkrais Method, a Kinēsa trainer and as an experienced international facilitator. Since 2007, Candy’s passion and focus have been on designing potent learning environments for building the confidence and competence of somatic practitioners around the world. She has a robust mentoring practice and delights in working with individuals and small groups. She continues to develop unique processes to make professional growth, gratifying, and transformative. Candy has a private practice in North Carolina. She works in person and online, predominantly with people who have complex pain. She teaches “Enough Anatomy” a six module, 75-hour experiential anatomy program for somatic practitioners. Her classes and workshops span topics from the concrete: effortless sitting, to the unconventional: mastering non-verbal gender patterns, to the metaphysical: Soul School: An Intuition Based Study of Body, Mind, and Spirit. She is dedicated to teaching human beings how to move through life with power, integrity of spirit, and joy.
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Andrew Gibbons, MM, Feldenkrais Assistant Trainer
A co-founder of Feldenkrais First, Andrew has been a sought after Feldenkrais Method practitioner for over two decades, and an assistant trainer since 2017. He has taught Feldenkrais for the Hospital for Special Surgery’s Integrative Care Center, the Doctoral PT program of SUNY Stoneybrook Medical School, for musicians in the Manhattan School of Music's wellness program and in other public programs sponsored by the NY Department for the Aging. He has worked as an ergonomic consultant for The New York Times, and has delivered a Tech Talk at Google’s New York headquarters on Avoiding the Black Hole of Computer Posture. He also contributed a chapter about working with musicians for the book, The Feldenkrais Method: Learning Through Movement (Handspring Publishing, 2021). Since 2008 he has taught Feldenkrais to the elite classical musicians at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. He is a graduate of Columbia University and the Manhattan School of Music.
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Lila Hurwitz, Feldenkrais Practitioner
A Feldenkrais Practitioner since 1997, Lila explores the integration of Feldenkrais with dance/movement practices including Contemplative Dance Practice and ensemble improvisation scores. She taught one of Seattle’s longest-running weekly ATM classes for 20+ years, and has taught at Cornish College of the Arts, University of Washington, Brown University and elsewhere. Lila has been exploring dance improvisation in performance since 1983, performing with Nina Martin, Bebe Miller, Lucia Neare, Karen Nelson, Lisa Nelson, Stephanie Skura and many others. She taught Authentic Movement for a decade and designed Contact Quarterly magazine for 11 years. She received a BA in Dance Choreography & Criticism from Hampshire College in 1987. Lila co-founded/co-produced the Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation, and is a co-founder of Motion State Arts, a presenting organization supporting innovative dance in Providence, RI. She runs Doolittle+Bird, a project management firm.