EDUCATION

1959-1962 — Bronx HS of Science, science and math easier 

1962-1967— City College of New York, BS in Chemistry

1984-1985 — Hunter College of New York, MS Dance/Movement Therapist

1991 — Massage Certification, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California

1994-1997 — Feldenkrais® Practitioner  Training, Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

1975-1993 — Laborer’s Union, Alaskan Pipeline

1985-1990 — Ohel Children Services, Brooklyn, New York, Therapist and Administrator

1993 — Present, Co-owned business Movement Educators with wife Diana Razumny. Worked in Europe and North America conducting Feldenkrais® Trainings, workshops and individual sessions.

 

MAIN INTERESTS

 

a) Land development and house building/remodeling: Colorado mountains; the interior of Alaska; Central Vermont; Santa Cruz mountains of California; Seattle, Washington; Denver, Colorado; Crestone, Colorado; Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico; Ranches south of Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico.

 

b) Healing arts: trainings listed in Education. Working with people hands on for 60 years developing my own style incorporating many modalities.

 

c) Dance: part of everything I have studied and essential to my health. started in folk dancing as a youngster; free form during my hippie days; developed as a dance/movement therapist to be self healing. 

 

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I was born in New York City on Christmas Eve of 1944. From a very early age I felt separate and misunderstood and have been a loner for much of my life. I gravitated towards developing my skills as a healer because I was drawn to working with people and also that was my way of connecting with people and being accepted. I also learned at a later age that I can’t be around large groups of people when I had my first panic attack in Venice during the summer of 1998. We were working in Europe, mostly with children with special needs in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. And although I didn’t especially avoid crowds and knew I was very sensitive to picking up emotions from the people around me, I didn’t realize the extent of my handicap until I totally lost it in Venice. 

 

Also, from a young age, I knew that I loved snow and the idea of some day traveling and living in Alaska was planted in my psyche. Little did I imagine the life that would greet me in later years. I am a Capricorn planner and would plan my year ahead and then one day realized that I had accomplished everything on my list in the previous year and was deflated! Was there no room for change in my life where a new idea or event would bring me to change my plans? Could I live in the moment and allow newness to spring upon me? I planned on writing my memoir when I left Alaska the first time in 1984 to go to graduate school in New York. It took the Covid lockdown to finally get me started over 25 years later.

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Life is about change and we all struggle to keep things comfortable but we fail. Have I changed through my life of adventure as a hippie, an Alaskan Pipeline construction worker, a movement therapist, a builder of homes? Do you see the same person in these photos of me at 26 and 78? 

 

This memoir is really therapy for me to face myself. Have I succeeded? That is up to you, the reader, to glean what you can about me…and about yourself. Am I a reflection of something in you? I hope so as I try to connect with my human side.