About Marilyn Hardy

I've always been drawn to teachers who are pioneers in their fields, people who challenge the current thinking and offer fresh, bold perspectives.

I am grateful to many teachers who have shaped and supported my work and my life.

Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais' revolutionary ideas changed my body and my life, catapulting me into a world where the false separations of body and mind, matter and spirit fell away. I trained with him and have been a certified Feldenkrais Practitioner since l983. His thinking and methodology are foundational to Your Back in Nature.

Ruthy Alon, with her unique and eloquent style as a Feldenkrais teacher, awakened in me the sensuality and poetry of movement-- bringing my feet to life on the earth, and the earth to life under my feet.

Years of study with Albert and Diane Pesso, founders of Psychomotor Therapy, taught me about"moving"emotion and how to reconstruct life stories as they came alive through my body.

Linda Metcalf and Toby Simon honed my capacity to express emotion and story, connecting head with heart through their great contribution, Proprioceptive Writing.

Gisela Rohmert, of the Lichtenberg Institute, engaged the sensory-motor imagination and taught me about freeing my natural voice. Through her collaboration with Julia Balter (influenced by FM Alexander and Marjory Barstow) and the synergy of their inspired work with sound, thought, and movement, I experienced my body as fine vibration, as an energy field within greater energy fields around me.