Karen Schaffman, Ph.D., Certified Feldenkrais® Practicioner

Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner based in Encinitas, CA
Karen Schaffman is a life-long dance artist, educator, curator, dramaturge, and Professor at CSU San Marcos. She became a Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner in 2016 and recently served as an Assistant Practitioner for the certification program at the Feldenkrais Institute of Vienna. Karen enjoys yoga, swimming, traveling, and spending time at our local coastline.

At Pilates & Beyond, Karen offers Functional Integration® Sessions - based in the Feldenkrais Method®. The Feldenkrais Method® addresses the brain’s natural ability to change and adapt. It is an invitation to shift long-held patterns that may be limiting your physical mobility and overall well-being. By slowing down and tuning inward, clients experience a renewed sense of vitality and self-awareness. Functional Integration® (FI) uses a gentle, hands-on approach that supports ways to move with ease, grace, and comfort. In a FI session, Karen guides you toward renewed pathways, to reduce unnecessary tension, soften overly exerted muscles, and calm the nervous system. With greater ease, potential can expand. Clients can discover ways to move more efficiently, with increased range of motion, clearer alignment, and improved balance. With the Feldenkrais Method®, many clients find that it enhances their Pilates practice and positively influences all sorts of activities they love — yoga, golf, pickleball, biking, gardening, dancing, playing music, singing, reading — and everyday life with their family and friends.

To schedule, please contact Karen directly via: karenschaffman@yahoo.com or 760-791-4929 $150 per session Sliding scale and packages available — if you are experiencing financial hardship, please reach out to confidentially discuss options. Note: Loose and comfortable clothing are recommended. Karen uses gentle guided movement and may offer sequences to explore at home between sessions.​