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Origins of
the Mitzvah Technique |
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M.Cohen-Nehemia,
Founder/Director of The Mitzvah Technique Centre Toronto, Canada
M. Cohen-Nehemia identified the Mitzvah Mechanism and developed the
Mitzvah Technique. While a dancer and choreographer with the
renowned Inbal Dance Theatre in Israel, he became interested in body
misuse. He developed the skills for helping dancers deal with
injuries and postural difficulties. M.Cohen-Nehemia worked in
physical rehabilitation at a hospital in Israel.
M. Cohen- Nehemia worked and conducted research with the late
Israeli physicist Moshe Feldenkrais. He spent five years in London,
England qualifying as an Alexander Technique Teacher and studying
postgraduate work.
Over the years M. Cohen-Nehemia engaged in extensive study of the
movement patterns of young children, animals and the nomadic Bedouin
of the Sinai Desert. It is through this research that he identified
the Mitzvah Mechanism.
He founded the Canadian Centre for the Alexander Technique and later
developed The Mitzvah Technique Centre and Training School in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Students and performers from York University, the National Ballet of
Canada School and at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto have
greatly benefited from working with M.Cohen-Nehemia .
He has given lecture demonstrations and workshops in Canada, the
United States, England, Germany, Spain and Austria to medical
personnel, teachers, musicians, actors and other interest groups.
M. Cohen-Nehemia trained and Certified a small number of select
Mitzvah Technique Teachers. |
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