Garet Newell

With a university degree in Art History and an MA in Dance in Education, Garet discovered the Feldenkrais Method through her many experiences in various approaches to both movement and awareness.

Garet was a student of Moshe Feldenkrais in his final training, which took place in Amherst, MA in the US and in Tel-Aviv, Israel, from which she graduated in 1983.

Teaching in London since 1984, she has been instrumental in introducing the Feldenkrais Method to a wide audience. For many years, she taught at the International Workshop Festival, inspiring many performing artists to appreciate the Feldenkrais Method.

She c0-directed the first Feldenkrais professional training programme in the UK, which began in London in 1987 and went on to establish the Feldenkrais International Training Centre in 1990. She has since directed ten successful trainings in Sussex–in Lewes and in Ditchling. She is currently Educational Director of both the Sussex 11 (Ditchling) and the Sussex 12 (Lewes) trainings.

She became an Assistant Trainer in 1988, and in 1996, she became one of the first Europe-based Trainers. She has played a crucial role in the formation of the international Feldenkrais community, having been a founding member of the International Feldenkrais Federation and of the European Training Accreditation Board.

She has been instrumental in research for the biography of Moshe Feldenkrais, having conducted interviews with former colleagues of Feldenkrais from the time when he was resident in both Scotland (during the war) and afterwards in London.

She has been invited to teach in training programs around the world and brings this extensive experience along with her innovative thinking in how best to train Teachers of this Method. She is known for her clarity, caring and humor in her teaching.

She recently co-authored a book, “The Feldenkrais Method for Executive Coaches, Managers and Business Leaders—moving in all directions,” published by Routledge—the publishers of “Body and Mature Behaviour” in 1949.