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• To become a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, Paula completed an 800-hour professional training over a period of 4 years.  Annual certification by the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America requires following standards of practice and continuous education..

• Paula completed the 800-hour professional training at the Rolf Institute® of Structural Integration to become a Certified RolferTM and Certified Rolf Movement® Practitioner in 2001. She also did many hours of continuing education. She no longer works as a Rolfer.

• Paula took 270 hours of professional training with renowned bodywork therapist Meir Schneider in his School for Self-Healing in San Francisco. Meir Schneider was legally blind since childhood and was able to recover his eyesight through a powerful combination of movement and vision exercises that he now teaches to others.

 

• Paula is a Certified Bones for Life® teacher. Bones for Life® is a movement program to improve bone health and alignment developed by senior Feldenkrais®​ trainer Ruthy Alon. 

 

• Paula was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she used to be a middle school teacher. She holds a Master of Science degree in Sociology from the University of Sao Paulo.

 

• Paula speaks English, Portuguese, Spanish, French and some German.