About
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My name is Noam (he/him), I am based in Berlin and work around Europe. I have a BA in Philosophy and Linguistics, I've completed a dance education and am a trained Feldenkrais Practitioner and Family Constellation Facilitator. I also practice Taiji dedicatedly for years.
My work as a therapist and workshop facilitator is not bound to a certain method, but aims to integrate all the fields of knowledge I've explored and studied into one comprehensive frame. At the same time it is grounded in my own life, experiences, insights and processes. In this page, I would like to give some idea about this personal context and how it relates to what I do professionally.
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I was very intellectually oriented as a child, and as a teenager and young adult, I became deeply engaged with language, meaning, definitions of truth, formal logic and writing poetry. I left school when I was 16 and went to study Philosophy and Linguistics in university.
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I was utterly disappointed with intellectual praxis, with the sole exception of the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. And so, I was looking for an alternative, a way to research mysteries without threatening my own individuality. Following a profound mystical experience - I got into dancing and embodiment, after years of alienation from my own body. I went to Vipassana retreats, attended dance school for two years (Hakvutza), and became fascinated with Somatics. I really wanted to understand the organic language of sensations and impulses, and for that purpose I embarked on a serious study of the Feldenkrais method, becoming a trained Practitioner myself. Around the same time, I also got introduced to Taiji and Martial arts, and have been practicing ever since.
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Getting in touch with sensations brought a lot of joy, depth and playfulness into my life. But, at the same time, anxiety, anger, immense fear and helplessness were also brought into the surface. They manifested physically in a variety of ways. For example, headaches and weakness that eventually became a permanent like state, throat aches that made it difficult to speak, heartburns despite eating a very balanced diet and so on.
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It all kept getting louder and louder, until one day a part of me refused to eat. Whatever I was putting inside my mouth was met with intense rejection: severe heartburn and other digestive phenomenons. Medically there was nothing wrong with me, but I lost a lot of weight and became even weaker and a lot more overwhelmed.
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It took me time to acknowledge that the root of all this is emotional, that I don't want to eat, and not that: I cannot eat. This opened a path for change and through years of therapy, I learned how to listen and collaborate, instead of fighting myself. To integrate between movement, sensations, emotions and language. An instrumental approach in this process was Family Constellation, which I also studied, becoming a trained facilitator myself.
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Studying family constellation and undergoing all these processes, shifted my proffesional focus. While my work continued to be very anchored in physicality, in movement and sensations, I started to support others in relating to broader more psychological themes. My workshops and classes became less about movement itself, and began to use movement and the body as a frame for exploring relating and more specfically kink and sexuality. I wish to support others in their own process and enrich them, to make discoveries, find and practice new forms of life.
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Professional Certifications
BA in Philosophy and Linguistics, Tel Aviv University
The Full Program, Dance school, Hakvutza
Feldenkrais Practioner, Approved by the EPUB with Eilat Almagor and Anat Krivine
Family Constellation Facilitator, The Constellation Path
Foundations of Psychotherpay for Alternative Healing Modalities, Leila and Nigam Hefer