Jeff Pontillo

Jeff Pontillo has over 1500 hours of professional training in Neuromuscular Therapy, Kinesiology, Cranio-Sacral Therapy and Shiatsu. He received his initial certification at the Boulder College of Massage Therapy in 1996. He has been practicing and teaching for over ten years.

In addition he has a degree in Psychology from the Evergreen State College where he created an independent study program in Somatics and Transpersonal approaches to bodywork.

He then went on to study Hanna Somatics, the Feldenkrais method and the Alexander technique at Antioch University in Seattle at the Master’s level.
Having founded numerous dance groups and events around the country based on the challenging and often humorous exploration of the psychological/emotional underpinnings of posture and motility, he brings a sense of skill, wonder and fun to the process of – as Pema Chodron would say – “getting unstuck”.

Jeff has engaged a consistent and committed meditation practice for more than twenty years. He also has the good fortune of a Teacher. Since 1996 Richard Freeman has been and continues to be Jeff’s primary Yogateacher. Jeff has attended levels I and II of Richard’s Teacher Training Intensives. Classical Ashtanga is Jeff’s foundational practice and study. In 2004 he completed a three semester study at the Harvard Divinity School in Indian Philosophy (Madhyamaka), as well as pre-canonical Christian thought. There he further explored the philosophical and historical roots of Mysticism to conceptually ground and relate the experience of Yoga.

His aim in the therapeutic setting is to help clients connect with their innate ease and freedom. He works intensively to facilitate the sensory-motor awareness needed to release long standing patterns of trauma, pain, and immobility. His working hypothesis is that pain and restriction in the body are simply unnecessary byproducts of degenerative, chronic patterns of misalignment. Jeff understands that the process of unraveling these patterns has unique psychological and emotional roots for each of us.

The compassionate exploration of these roots is supported during the sessions.

Through a three-fold process of Neuromuscular bodywork, Yoga Therapeutics, and meditative awareness, chronic patterns of misuse and pain are recognized, transformed and released. If desired, each person will come away from the sessions with a tailored personal practice appropriate to their needs and abilities.

Thanks for reading.

Look forward to meeting you,

Jeff