Mary Spire is an experienced and certified Feldenkrais® practitioner and a Trainer in international Feldenkrais trainings. She holds a Master’s Degree in Piano Performance from U.S.C. and performed for many years before becoming a Feldenkrais practitioner. She has taught Feldenkrais at U.C. Berkeley, U.C. San Francisco, Boston University, SUNY Stonybrook, the Tanglewood Music Center and at other schools and hospitals. Since 1994, she has been teaching for the San Francisco Symphony’s Prevention & Wellness Program. In addition to her frequent workshops, lectures and symposia, Mary maintains private practices in Berkeley and Corte Madera, California, where she specializes in working with infants and children, older adults, people with neurological conditions and performing artists.

"We (at the Tanglewood Music Center) used to have a small army of the walking wounded…. Since Mary joined our Faculty, it has evaporated to barely one person each summer. Instrumentalists, singers, and conductors have all voiced enthusiasm for the extraordinary increase in self-awareness and self-knowledge that has resulted from this course of study."

-Leon Fleisher, Artistic Director, Tanglewood Music Center

"After five years of constant, debilitating back pain that conventional medicine could not diagnose or relieve, Mary has helped me to become fully functional. Thanks to her work with me, I now lead a full, active life."

-Sylvia Gerton, Older Adult

"Mary’s lessons are clear, gentle, and pain-free. When I began to work with her, I was scheduled for knee surgery. My doctors could offer me no more than a 50-50 chance of recovery. Mary showed me movements that caused the critical pain to abate very quickly. She continues to teach me ways to move that allow for non-surgical healing."

-Jennifer Kaiser, Media Relations