Discover the wisdom from the Feldenkrais Method®
and Anat Baniel’s NeuroMovement for Children
through personal sessions and retreats with BonnieK.
Awaken Your Brain’s Natural Ability to Support
Rehabilitation, Healing, and Ease of Movement.
Bonnie Kissam, M.A. and Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner®
With decades of experience, BonnieK has guided people from all walks of life with rehabilitating injuries, moving beyond pain, and discovering a new sense of ease in their movements. By engaging the brain and increasing awareness, her approach based in the Feldenkrais Method gently helps old movement patterns melt away so that new, healthier possibilities can emerge. Through her individual sessions for adults, specialized sessions for children with special needs, and unique retreats designed around walking or golf, Bonnie creates opportunities for people to move with less pain, more freedom, and greater joy.
Based in beautiful Sarasota, Florida, Bonnie’s sessions and retreats invite you not only to improve personal wellness but quality of life. Enjoy the charm of this vibrant coastal community. Many visitors combine their time here with a restorative vacation—soaking up the sun, enjoying the beaches, and returning home with both a refreshed body and a renewed way of moving. Whether you’re local or traveling from out of town, you’re warmly welcome to experience Sarasota as the backdrop to your journey toward moving with greater ease.
Experience How to Move Beyond Limitation & Increase Mobility,
Discovering a New Found Freedom.
Develop New Patterns
Explore Individual
Sessions & Retreats
From people of any age with mobility limitations or those who simply like to expand flexibility and ease of walking or movement, to parents and caretakers of children with special needs, to the forever golfer and golf coaches with a desire to excel their skills – Bonnie’s individual sessions and retreats open a window to new possibilities.
Individual Functional Integration®
In her Functional Integration® sessions, BonnieK creates a gentle, supportive space where you can rediscover freedom and ease of movement. Using over 40 years of experience, she creates a connection that enables you to increase awareness listen kinesthetically to patterns your body holds, guiding them gently back toward balance, then offering subtle, nonverbal suggestions that invite new possibilities. Whether lying comfortably on a table or sitting in a chair, you’ll explore simple, mindful shifts that awaken your brain’s natural capacity to learn and adapt. Many clients describe these sessions as eye-opening—finding new choices where they once felt stuck, moving with greater comfort and ease, and often experiencing benefits that extend well beyond the physical.
FI Sessions for Adults
Anat Baniel Method of NeuroMovement®
for Children with Special Needs
With over 10+ years as an Adapted PE teacher and 12+ years as a NeuroMovement® Practitioner, Bonnie supports children with special needs—including those with birth injuries, autism, or developmental delays—by engaging their brains through movement, expanding what they can sense, learn, and do. Her approach builds on each child’s strengths, opening pathways for growth, confidence, and joy. Click here to learn more about the Anat Baniel Method of NeuroMovement® and Sessions with BonnieK. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions.
ABM Sessions for Children
Enjoy Family Time & Relaxation in Sarasota
Expanding Your Child’s World
The Lightness of Walking Program ~
A Sarasota Retreat
Step into the joy and greater ease of walking with the Lightness of Walking Retreat in beautiful Sarasota. Across six studio sessions, Bonnie gently guides you through the principles of her Lightness of Walking program, helping you explore how to move with more ease, comfort, and awareness, while releasing tension, reducing pain, and discovering a lighter, more comfortable way to walk. Then, take what you’ve learned out onto the local trails with guided group walks, practicing what you’ve explored while soaking in the beauty of Sarasota and sharing the experience with others. This retreat is more than instruction—it’s a chance to reconnect with your body, experience the pure joy of walking, and leave feeling freer, lighter, and more vibrant. Click below for details and to reserve your spot for the next retreat.
The Effortless Swing® Approach for Optimal Golf ~ A Sarasota Retreat
Rediscover the joy of your game with the Effortless Swing Approach® for Optimal Golf Retreat in beautiful Sarasota. Designed for the forever golfer, golf instructors, and serious players who want to take their game to the next level, this retreat helps you discover an effortless swing, the type of swing where the club head meets the ball in such a way that the ball lifts and flies, with no effort at all. In studio sessions, Bonnie guides you through her proven approach, helping you release tension and connect mind and body, to let an effortless, optimal swing emerge. Then, put your new found possibilities to the test on Sarasota’s stunning golf courses—practicing in guided group sessions or on your own—feeling firsthand how effortless and enjoyable your game can be. This retreat is about more than technique—it’s about restoring the joy, freedom, and confidence in every swing. Click below for details and to reserve your spot for the next retreat.
Bonnie Kissam, M.A. in Education
Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner® / Assistant Trainer
Licensed Massage Therapist, FL Lic #36256
“As a dancer, physical educator and trained massage therapist, I have always been fascinated by how the body works — and how to keep it working! In 1976, I was introduced to the work of body/mind pioneer Moshe Feldenkrais, D.Sc., who promoted the idea that we think, sense and act all at the same time. He was interested in how, sensing differences in our movements, can create changes in our brain. In 1980 when there was little belief in the scientific community of neuroplasticity, Feldenkrais demonstrated how the human brain has an enormous capacity to learn, change and develop new possibilities for action and thought. He worked with little children and people with strokes or other neurological impairments as well as athletes who wanted to move beyond their plateau or prevent injuries. In each case his focus was on expanding how your brain operates by expanding your awareness to changes in action.
If you are willing to think “skill” and not just “conditioning,” you can enhance your abilities effortlessly — no matter your age or condition — in a relatively short amount of time. When we can engage our attention as we move, our brains reawaken and receive information clarifying what we are doing. With awareness, new thoughts and abilities can emerge.” —Bonnie Kissam, M.A.
Bonnie has two Master’s Degrees, in Physical Education/Dance (1973) and Exceptional Student Education (2009). She studied with Moshe Feldenkrais, D.Sc., during his last years of teaching in 1980-1981. Bonnie maintained a private practice in Hartford, Connecticut for 20 years, which included being a Feldenkrais Practitioner® in physical therapy clinics, a teacher of Anatomy and Kinesiology for the Dancer at the Hartford Conservatory, and facilitator of numerous professional workshops. In 1993, she created the Effortless Swing® Approach for optimal golf, which uses sensory learning and other principles from The Feldenkrais Method® to maximize the ease and performance of golfers.
For the past 20 years, Bonnie has been in Sarasota, FL, teaching individual lessons, group classes and professional seminars in Sarasota and surrounding areas. She developed a Certificate Program, TOUCH TO INFORM in 2011. TOUCH TO INFORM is a series of seminars for therapists [CEs for LMTs], educators and other professionals who want a deeper understanding of The Feldenkrais Method® and the ability to include these concepts as part of their practice.
Since the COVID years, Bonnie is offering ONLINE CLASSES & PROGRAMS FOR ALL AGES – from children to mature adults. The Lightness of Walking Program was created in 2002 and formulated for ONLINE learning in 2020. TOUCH TO INFORM Seminars are also available online as well as in person. Retreat opportunities in Sarasota for her Lightness of Walking Program and the Effortless Swing Approach for Optimal Golf allow for immersive, in person experiences.
Bonnie is a graduate of the Amherst Feldenkrais® Professional Training Program (1983) and an Assistant Trainer [1996]. In 2010 she once more studied with Anat Baniel Ph.D. and her Method® of Neuromovement for Children with Special Needs. Bonnie loves watching the potential for natural development and growth be absorbed and utilized by each child and their caretakers. BonnieK offers lessons in-person and online.
