Privates with Dave

In-person Privates With Dave

NEW: Year-round DTM Feldenkrais Method® Practice at Poinciana Farm, Loxahatchee, FL.

As a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner®, Dave teaches voice guided Awareness Through Movement® lessons and also helps clients with a very specialized hands-on technique called Functional Integration® (F.I.).

"The aim is a person who is organized to move with minimum effort and maximum efficiency, not through muscular effort, but through increased consciousness of how movement works."

- Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, 1904-1984

- Feldenkrais Method® table treatments to bring detailed function specific improvement to your riding, daily posture and new hope to pain-issues or unresolved injuries and compensation patterns. Dave has helped countless riders around the world, including many Olympians. This work is a combination of voice guided "exercises" that are called Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® as well as a hands-on technique called Feldenkrais F.I. (Functional Integration®) - a very effective treatment that uses non-verbal communication to give your system a reboot and reset to stand up tall, ride your very best, and enjoy being pain-free. When you get up from the session, prepare to be amazed. In the words of world famous holistic MD, "Everyone should experience a Feldenkrais F.I. at least once in their life".

- Mounted lessons As part of your team, Dave will work with your current trainer. World renowned trainers such as Monica Theodoresu, Kristina Sprehe, Coby and Marlies Van Baalen, Andreas Ostholt and many more have tapped-in to Dave's knowledge, asking him to teach their clients "riding lessons" - "As an educated and experienced trainer he knows exactly what we are aiming for, plus as an educated Feldenkrais therapist he sees things in the rider, the horse, or a relationship between that we do not until it is pointed out, making him a valuable asset to our collective goals", stated Monica Theodoresu after Dave assisted her with a German Gold Medalist student. Biomechanics centered classical riding. Dave is also a certified German F.N. 'Trainer A' (Level III) in dressage, show-jumping and eventing. He himself has educated horses and riders to GP in dressage and show-jumping. Imagine, a lesson from a very experienced trainer with the ability to change easily improve old movement and postural patterns that are getting in the way of your success.

It was great seeing my friend Dave Thind here in Wellington on Sunday. I had my first private Feldenkrais Method session with him and I must say it was so interesting. I just rode my mare and I definitely feel more centered overall with less effort to do so. My seat felt more connected in the saddle and my back pain that I have had for years was very minimal. Thank you Dave so much for that. Makes me very happy! I highly recommend all riders giving this a try to see for themselves how these sessions can assist them. Dave (Dave Thind Method) offers private sessions, live group classes coming up in Wellington, as well as online options. If you struggle with unevenness in your body from any injuries, this is truly helpful. Here is a picture of my posture after he worked with me

Even after all these years, seeing how the Feldenkrais Method can easily help people free themselves from old pain, stiffness or asymmetry or other structural difficulties especially when medical findings that suggest otherwise is so rewarding. The method does not change medical findings, but gives one’s nervous system choices to automatically move freely, and without compensation.

Seeing people smile and experience joyful optimism about renewed, youthful and pain free movement is such a gift.

Kim Herslow is an accomplished FEI-level dressage trainer and competitor who has represented the United States at the 2015 Nations Cup and Pan American Games Dressage Team.

Kim is a wonderful rider, please observe her incredible classical seat if you get the chance.

Feeling little improvements in the horse’s body and my body makes for confident progress - just quiet work not demanding. Feeling both of our spines and balance. Thank you Dave Thind for the help!!!

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For your horse: DTM Equine Feldenkrais Method®,

Dave uses his Feldenkrais hands to improve your horse's basic movement patterns. You, your trainer and other therapists will be amazed! The gaits, toplines and way of going will improve. Although the treatment looks like a bit like very gentle Osteopathy, it is more about the nervous system and brain rather than a "treatment" Primative patterns such as fish movement (tail to head, for example trot and walk), whale movement (canter) are restored and improved on a nervous system level, therefore improving function and reducing inappropriate muscle tension. Dave is happy to work in collaboration with your veterinarian or equine chiropractor.