Below is the text of letter regarding the abuse allegations against Sascha Krausneker. Jeremy first sent the letter to his colleagues and then in 2018 posted it to a Facebook group called, “Feldenkrais Practitioners Around The World. And then it was taken down and he has refused to speak about it! Jeremy’s Facebook post on…
Read More →Category: Feldenkrais Sex Scandal
To follow up with the initial post on the home page about Sascha Krausneker from 2018: There are multiple accusations against Sascha Krausneker. Multiple, detailed accusations against him, accusing him of sexual coercion, violence, and harassment towards a Feldenkrais student and a Feldenkrais practitioner. There are multiple, credible second-person accounts of the abuse. There was…
Read More →*draft* Take a look at the various posts in this website to get a sense of how widespread sexual harassment, rape and bullying may be in the Feldenkrais Guild training community. Then take a moment to realize that the abuse allegations go back to events at the Amherst training in 1981 and span nearly a…
Read More →The link to the letter below by Jack Heggie was originally posted on SomaSimple.com. It was sent to me by a reader. Thank you. Jack Heggie passed away, reportedly by suicide. Ryan Nagy talks about the apparent suicide (years apart) of Jack Heggie and Martin Weiner in this blog post (click). Jack’s letter below gets…
Read More →“I went to Dr. Wildman’s apartment over in south east Eugene near campus. I arrived and walked up the stairs to his door. When he answered he was completely nude. I had gathered that he was a nudist and tried to respect his personal choice as he was in his own home space. I ignored…
Read More →The Feldenkrais Guild of North America has an ethics policy. But they do not say who is on their ethics board. If you have an ethics complaint against a Feldenkrais Trainer, you are invited to contact the board via email or snail mail. But they do not tell you who is on the board: Inquiries…
Read More →Jeff Haller, has a YouTube video called, “Moving Towards Emotional Dignity.” I like Jeff as a Feldenkrais teacher and have experienced one of his advanced workshops. It was brilliant. However, listening to the video below, gave me the creeps. Jeff simply repeats – adnauseam – buzzwords from the popular culture. Feldenkrais helps you move towards…
Read More →We had high hopes for this website, but it looks like the abuse allegations in the Feldenkrais Guild community are being ignored. For several months we thought that Ryan Nagy was going to write about the allegations. But he is no longer responding to our emails. What a douche! Perhaps he is worried that the…
Read More →Something that has been written by several Feldenkrais practitioners from the Amherst training when talking about the alleged abuse is that, “I knew about Frank (or Ned or Dennis etc) twenty years ago, but I did not say anything because I wanted to protect the method.” The method (or more accurately, “The Guild system”) was…
Read More →“The official position is that this is not a public matter.” – Feldenkrais Guild Board Member. “I just wanted to echo what the board [of the Feldenkrais Guild of North America] has been saying. … In the case of the process for addressing these [sexual harrasment] concerns, I see that an incredible amount of care…
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