Sheri created an environment of safety and peace.
Her presence and dialog were reassuring and knowledgeable—every step, suggestion, movement, and touch—every moment a breath of gentleness.
—Consuelo, multi-disciplinary artist
I have been a hungry student of the movement arts for over 30 years. I began my professional career as a dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher. (For more on that, please go to SheriCohenDance.com.) In 1990 I stumbled into my first Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement® class, and I was changed forever. I completed my professional training in Feldenkrais Method® in Strasbourg, France, 2000, with trainers Elizabeth Beringer and Dr. Lawrence Goldfarb.
I am a certified member of the Feldenkrais Guild®, and I have conducted classes, workshops, and individual sessions in the Seattle area since 1998, where my students are musicians, dancers, moms, meditators, runners, typists, bus riders, children, and all versions of human being.
I am an Assistant Trainer of the Feldenkrais Method, which allows me the privilege of teaching aspiring practitioners in certified training programs. I co-directed the New England Awareness Through Movement Teacher Training 2021-2023 with Elizabeth Beringer and Joshua Wolk, and continue to assist in trainings in North America and Europe.
I taught yoga for over 20 years, always fascinated by the intersecting concerns of yoga asana, Feldenkrais and meditation, the center of which is self-awareness.
For twenty years I choreographed and taught contemporary dance, with a special interest in movement improvisation. My current dance practice (and, thus, my teaching) includes Contemplative Dance Practice (from Barbara Dilley) and Tuning (from Lisa Nelson), among other influences. This work in dance is truly the ground of all my teaching, which I approach as a creative process and a mode of dialogue.
I am inspired and supported by my husband, David Knott, music therapist, improviser and all-around creative soul, and by our amazing daughter.