While integrating in my treatment the learning about breathing and silence, I could let my patients experience how to pay attention to their body, stay in the present moment and let the noise in their head recede, not having to focus or pay attention to it.

My clients were satisfied and their feedbacks were positive. They all felt notably more relaxed, more able to pay attention to their body in daily life. One of my patients wrote me the following after a Footwork session: “Today’s work impressed me in a particular way. It is marvelous to work without words. Thanks, thanks, thanks. It is strange, but I feel well in this moment. The black cloud will come back, but it is for a long time that I haven’t felt so relaxed and I dare say, focused.” I definitely intend to go on using footwork with all my clients.

The practice of medicine can become such a complicated thing in the information age, and the more convoluted the path we travel the more easily we find ourselves getting off track in our attempts to find true healing. I’ve always thought that if there is a truth in healing work then it must be extremely simple … almost incomprehensively so. This may be exactly what I have encountered with the Footwork course. At its heart is a shift of focus away from treatment of conditions – from trying to fix things for patients – and toward simply allowing the body to do the healing work it needs to do and, indeed, already knows how to do.

If I hadn’t had a powerful experience of this work in my own body, I might never have taken the course because it looks so simple. Too simple. But if I had not taken the course, then I wouldn’t be telling you this now: don’t over-think things like I often do – just take this course, simply because it can provide better results than you’re getting with whatever you’re already doing.

I have taken other wellness courses online and this course felt fresh, inviting and inclusive. The styling and production of the videos were excellent, highly engaging. The text was detailed and clear. Together I feel like I have a complete understanding of the Footwork technique and I will now continue to improve my skills through regular practice.

My yoga students, with whom I practiced Footwork, definitely enhanced their body awareness and their curiosity is piqued about how habitual patterns cause pain, injury and suffering on different levels. Many of them understand now how important the foundation (feet) of a pose is to building structure and form in a balanced, healthy way.