A trailblazing teacher and trainer

High school physics teacher and violinist Yochanan Rywerant started studying with Moshe Feldenkrais in 1952. From 1969 to 1971, he was a member of the original teacher training program in Tel Aviv. Moshe invited Yochanan to teach in his studio at 21 Nachami Street, where he worked for 13 and a half years. He also made Yochanan a member of the faculty of the Amherst training (1980 to 1983), where I met and studied with him. 

Yochanan is best known for 
The Feldenkrais Method: Teaching through Handling, published in 1983.

In this illustrated book, he presented an explicit model of Moshe’s hands-on methodology, revealing its cybernetic underpinnings and neurological basis. For example, he distinguishes the functions of the peripheral and central aspects of the nervous system and shows how the strategies of Functional Integration lessons utilize them. Yochanan names and explains fundamental tactics and then illustrates, with technical precision, how to put them to use in prototypical individual sessions... 

Santa Cruz, California
November 14, 2022

Larry Goldfarb