Schedule of Events

The LGBTQIA+ and everybody else Feldenkrais Festival Week!

The Global LGBTQIA+ Everybody Else  Feldenkrais Festival started with a kick-off event on Monday, February 26 at 6:00 PM Eastern Time. Teachers included Larry Goldfarb, David Zemach-Bersin, Connor Voss, Fritha Pengelly, Maggy Burrowes, Sheri Cohen, Peggi Honig, Michael Landau and FrederickSchjang!


We featured Awareness through Movement® classes, films, concerts, and much more! 

The Festival is completely funded by your donations.Twenty percent of all donations go to support the amazing work of Sage LGBT Elder Center Centers.

You can help support the Festival with donations here.

https://gofund.me/ffb10e62

A very special thank you goes out to our premier sponsor the Feldenkrais Institute of Ann Arbor. 

If you are interested in becoming a Certified Feldenkrais teacher you can get more information through this link

All times are Eastern time.

All class and event times are given in the Eastern (New York) Time Zone

The Global LGBTQA Feldenkrais® Festival

We again assembled a team of extraordinary teachers for the 2024 Festival!

Most of the lessons — they are called Awareness Through Movement® lessons — are best done on a mat on the floor or in a chair.

The Festival is open to everyone regardless of romantic preference or gender identity.

You need to REGISTER. You will need to have Zoom installed on your device.

The 2024 Global Feldenkrais Festival is completely donor-supported.

Please donate what you can.

Twenty percent of all funds generated go to charity.

You can contribute here.

See you at the Next Festival! November 11 - 17, 2024

Frederick Schjang, GCFP

Founder and Primary Host

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History of the LGBTQA Online Festival

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”

Goethe

For the past several years, I have taught Feldenkrais® classes and hosted Feldenkrais Festivals in New York City for the general public and for LGBTQA elders. The Festivals always feature multiple teachers and have been replicated in format in many cities across the country. In response to the pandemic, they are now online. In March, 2020, I found myself, like many, operating in a professional and personal terrain that would have been completely incomprehensible just weeks before. My venue based profession of classes and of working with people in their homes was instantly not an option.

Again, like many, I moved my entire career online and found that I could actually reach more students than ever by teaching on Zoom. I rebuilt my career quickly with the help of many people to whom I am eternally grateful.

As International Feldenkrais Week approached in the Spring, I threw caution to the wind and without a clue about the technical aspects of creating such a program, I brought my Feldenkrais Festival idea online. Again, I was thrilled to see that I could now reach people around the world. Moreover, I could feature as presenters many of my favorite teachers from multiple cities across the country! Supported by the Edie Windsor SAGE LGBT Elder Center and the NY Region of the Feldenkrais Guild of North America, the first LGBTQA (“A” stands for allies) was born

Astonishingly, we ended up with over a thousand distinct sign-ins for classes and the reviews of the classes was universally excellent. In sum, after taking a few deep breaths, I knew we had to do it again.

Frederick Schjang, GCFP

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