Practitioner Profile

Moving Well
with Marsha Novak, GCFP, P.T.

"Making the impossible possible, the possible easy, and the easy elegant"- Moshe Feldenkrais

These words inspire Moving Well, my Feldenkrais¨ and physical therapy practice. I use comfortable touch, movement and language as appropriate to help my clients learn to move in more comfortable, efficient and effective ways - people with pain, posture and performance concerns, as well as children with special needs.

Working with special needs children, I help fill in developmental gaps created by their condition. The child can then use this information to figure out how to do things that typically developing children do, often far exceeding their medical prognosis.

For people where the possible is difficult or painful, I frequently create situations where they begin to notice the unnecessary tensions or poor mechanics that are making what they do less easy than it once was.

I have worked with many professional dancers and musicians including members of Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seattle Symphony. I help elite performers with fine-tuning and establishing optimal fundamental movement patterns that support what they already do so well. The result is both less injury and enhanced performance.

Marsha Novak has a degree in physical therapy from UW, 1985, is a certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, 2003, and is recently certified in the Anat Baniel Method for Children. You can reach her at 206-842-4608.