Feldenkrais Vancouver
                                   About Joseph

Joseph has a broad range of skills, though his focus is on Feldenkrais, Personal Training, Clinical Massage & Insomnia Solutions.

Joseph has 12 years of hands-on and teaching experience. He had the opportunity to work with a large variety of people and has helped them overcoming limitations, chronic pain and injury. 

He has helped artists (visual & performing) and athletes to improve their performance, overcome injury and creative & mental blocks.

He has worked with people who suffer from chronic pain, MS, insomnia, headaches, whiplash, muscle injuries, Cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome, mva's, stroke, paralysis, cancer, injury and its rehab.  People who suffer from low self-esteem, relationship problems, sexuality issues, addiction, depression; those who feel stuck, and those who seek for ways to unlock their potential. 
Health-care professionals who wish to improve their own health (self care) and their treatments.


  Professional afilliations:
    Joseph's professional training in a nutshell:
    -  Solution Focused Coach 2008
    -  Member of CPCA since 2007
    -  Counselling at VCC 2006 - 2007, 
       Registered Professional Counsellor, RPC (cand.)
    -  Certified as Autogenic Training Seminar Leader 2007        
    -  Certified as Sleep Teacher 2007
    -  Certified as Feldenkrais Teacher 2000 (Feldenkrais Guild Member)
    -  Studied Massage Therapy at CCMH Toronto, ON 1998 - 1999
        Joseph worked over five years as a Massage Therapist and Feldenkrais Teacher in
        San Francisco before and after he moved permanently to Vancouver in 2001.
    -  Personal Trainer, since 1998
    -  Cranio-Sacral Therapy 1 through the Upledger Institute 1998

He coaches by phone and in person. He teaches Feldenkrais, Stess & Insomnia SolutionsTM and  in private and public settings.
Personal Training can take place in the great outdoors, at home, or a gym. Outdoors can be dependend on weather conditions.
Since his certification as a Feldenkrais Teacher in 2000 the method has became more and more the core of all his treatments and integral part of his daily life.
He provides since 2006 crisis support as a volunteer at the Vancouver Crisis Centre.

Meditation, coaching, Feldenkrais, Tai-Chi and Autogenic Training are since over 20 years part of his daily routine. He has over 20 years martial arts history and has trained all over the world.
He is an active runner and has run competetive. He is experienced in white water kajaking, climbing, biking, diving (Rescue Dive)
Over several years he has tought wilderness awareness and surival skills to outdoor leadership programs in Vancouver and has help many people to be more at home in Nature.

If you have any questions call Joseph at 778-233-0889,
or e-mail him at fjsoma@gmail.com

 

Please Call Joseph at 778.233.0889 or e-mail at fjsoma@gmail.com