Ruthy Alon(1930-2020), PhD, studied with Moshe Feldenkrais for over two decades since 1959, and is a first generation senior trainer of the Feldenkrais Method®. She develops innovative Movement Intelligence programs, based on the unique Feldenkrais® approach to updating Somatic programming.

She has written many books& journals, recorded many DVD’S, videos and audiotapes on movement intelligence and trained many teacher’s and practitioners worldwide with her teaching programs. Ruthy has a quality to decipher complex combinations of movement coordination, and to design solutions that can improve them in the way nature meant. She offers clear verbal explanations that empower her students to comprehend and master the work on their own, arriving at their successes with a sense of personal accomplishment.

In her mature years she is a living model of what she teaches, as demonstrated by her youthful, flowing way of moving, which, she says, gets better year by year!

Always tuned into the crucial needs of her time, Ruthy continues to create additional programs, all under the umbrella of Movement Intelligence, for awakening core resourcefulness — the inner compass for navigating a personally gratifying way of functioning.

Her Current Programs:

 — Bones for Life®, for Bone Strength and Optimal Weight-Bearing posture, it is currently taught in over 30 countries.

 — Walk for Life for Health, Power Management & Biological Optimism

 — Chairs Transforming Sitting from Fixation into an opportunity for Mobility

—Mindful Eating The Inner Game of Chewing for pleasurable & struggle- less food management.

— Movement Intelligence Solutions for Individual Problems — Self-Care Strategies for Optimal Mobility

Fortunate factors that each contributed to Ruthy’s life’s calling. In Tel Aviv, in 1959 she began attending the weekly public classes conducted by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais’ that he later called Awareness Through Movement®. 

In 1967, when Feldenkrais decided to train practitioners in his hands-on method of individual teaching, later called Functional Integration®, Ruthy, who had already been teaching his group movement processes devotedly for several years, was fortunate to be among the thirteen chosen ones, four years later, graduate from his very first training.

Since those early formative days in Israel, the Feldenkrais Method® became the central axis about which Ruthy’s personal development and professional contributions evolved. She was the first practitioner to follow Moshe to the U.S., California in 1972, and then teaching his innovative approach to humanistic-oriented communities in other centers and universities throughout North America, and internationally. During the 1970s, Ruthy was assisting Moshe in his first professional trainings. After Moshe passed away, in 1984, Ruthy started to conduct her own four-year professional Feldenkrais® trainings in San Diego, Tel Aviv, Sydney, and Florence, as well as teaching as a guest trainer around the world. Her meaningful education though, she says, "is the informal learning with Feldenkrais". Recently, at the age of 83, despite an extensive worldwide teaching schedule, she completed a Ph.D. in Mind-Body Medical University with a dissertation on Movement Intelligence.

Ruthy’s Books& Journals:

Mindful Spontaneity, 1970, "I had a need to explain to myself what I know", Ruthy Alon

Conditioning Bone Strength on Weight-Bearing Posture , 2004, NASA, Houston Texas

Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine Journal, March 2005, 

Public Audiotapes:

Free Your Backworkshop, (Click Here) 

Grammar of Spontaneity programs (Click Here) 

Movement Nature Meant, (Click Here)