OLIVIA SHAFFER
Feldenkrais® Method and Functional Integration® Practitioner
“Altering our movement and awareness initiates shifts in our emotional and mental well being.”
— Olivia Shaffer, Feldenkrais® Method and Functional Integration® Practitioner
Focus: Helping you to move and feel better by working with your nervous system to retrain habitual movement patterns that are no longer serving you.
Ideal for: Chronic pain, injury recovery, enhancing mental and/or physical wellbeing, expanding physical capabilities, and refining body awareness. For all ages and backgrounds.
Rates: $105 (60 min)
Olivia is a certified practitioner of the Feldenkrais® Method of somatic education, and, more specifically, is certified in its one-on-one therapeutic modality known as Functional Integration®. Olivia finds great joy in helping others move out of pain and unlock the restorative potential within themselves. As she supports clients through this gentle, hands-on movement modality, her approach emphasizes curiosity and self-empowerment as pathways to healing.
Olivia’s journey with the Feldenkrais® Method began in 2017 as a way to deepen her personal movement and teaching practices. With 16 years of professional experience as a dance artist and long-standing mentorships with embodied movement experts, Olivia’s work as a Feldenkrais® practitioner is enriched by her extensive background in performance and somatic movement practices.
Olivia believes that everyone, regardless of age or health concerns, can improve their quality of life by learning new and better ways to move and feel. She is passionate about sharing Feldenkrais® strategies due to their effectiveness at increasing resilience and supporting self-development.
When she’s not at Klinik, Olivia is the Associate Artistic Director and a company dancer at EDAM in Vancouver, as well as a teacher of dance and embodied movement to professionals and non-professionals alike.
Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner™
(Feldenkrais Guild of North America, 2024)
Guild Certified Feldenkrais Functional Integration® Practitioner
Guild Certified Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® Teacher
The following are service marks, trademarks, or certification marks of the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America in Canada: Feldenkrais® Method, Feldenkrais®, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner™, Functional Integration®, and Awareness Through Movement®.
What clients are saying
“Olivia is a dedicated and caring Feldenkrais/Functional Integration healer whose technical and intuitive skills are highly developed. She has played a crucial role in my long journey of recovery from chronic illness and serious injuries to my brain and body. She has assisted me in retraining my energetic, somatic, and nervous systems. Her approach is holistic, intelligent, and sensitive as well as sensible. She has the healing touch!”
— DLS, Vancouver
“Working with Olivia Shaffer has been an incredibly positive and powerful healing experience. Her knowledge of the Feldenkrais Method is vast and is supported by a deep understanding and passion of the body. I came in to Klink with intense body pains and fatigue and walked out with relief, energy, and an exciting new insight into how to work with my own body intelligence. This practice has given me tools to integrate body-awareness and connection into my daily life which has shown outstanding results! Moreover, Olivia’s ability to create a supremely safe environment catered to my unique needs coupled with wisdom, empathy, intuition, and digestible instruction/information is the key to allowing healing changes to take place in a vulnerable field such as this. It’s been an honour to have this opportunity of a lifetime - a practitioner and method I will 100% continue working with and 100% recommend.”
—Sasha (5-Star Google Review)