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Vision
Links
We
cannot teach people anything,
we can only help them discover it
within themselves.
Galileo Galilei
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Instead of repeating what has already
been written by others, I highly recommend that you investigate
some of the many educative websites listed below. There is excellent
information to be found among
these sites, so 'click away' and find something that resonates with
your heart.
Your eyes, body and mind will be grateful for you letting these
teachers into your life.
I do suggest that you take private lessons from a local teacher if at all
possible.
However, if you do not make progress as expected,
please do not give up on
the Bates Method !
Your local teacher may not have enough experience yet or may not have
clear vision themselves yet, but you have provided them with an opportunity to grow and learn by taking
lessons from them. Your experience will serve them as teachers, which serves your local
community in the long run. So, kindly thank your teacher and then move on to another teacher, until
you do achieve your goals.
Inclusion of a link does not imply Vision Of Joy's endorsement,
because I am not
personally familiar with the quality of the lessons offered by all of
these teachers,
so I cannot vouch for how well they do or do not understand the Bates Method
.
This list is not exhaustive, as many teachers do not have
websites.
If you are a vision educator
and would like to be
included in this list, please let me know!
Contents: (Scroll
down or click on any underlined text to jump to a specific section)
Vision Educators in
- Western USA,
- Hawaii,
- Eastern USA,
- Canada,
- Europe,
- Australia & New Zealand,
- Rest of the world.
Behavioral Optometrists
Other vision related websites
- Links to more teachers and to other very useful and interesting
sites about vision.
- Affordable prescription glasses
E-groups on natural vision
- communicate with others who are going through the process
of improving their vision.
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Western USA
Esther
Joy van der Werf. Ojai, CA (80 Miles NW of Los Angeles). Also
see my travel schedule.
Claudia
Muehlenweg, El Segundo, CA
Jeannie
'Viveka' Fitzsimmons, Beverly Hills, CA.
Max
Mandolini, Los Angeles, CA.
Sue Choi,
Venice, CA
Jerriann
Taber, San Diego, CA.
Sheela
Alex, Encinitas, CA
Marie
Wilson, Sacramento, CA.
Meir
Schneider's School of Self-Healing, San Francisco, CA.
Teresa Bowen,
Davis, CA.
Gene
Younger, Portland, OR & Vancouver, WA.
Toshiyasu Abe,
Seattle, WA. Tel: (206) 898-9988. "Studying vision
is studying life."
Carol
Gallup, Port Townsend, WA.
Troy
Ballard, Orem, UT.
Greg
Marsh, Fort Collins, CO.
Hawaii
Kate Keilman,
Honolulu, HI. Kate sells wonderful
software to help your eyes and body relax during computer work,
it's really a must-have for regular computer users.
Eastern USA
Robert
Lichtman, Brooklyn / NYC, NY. Robert is an excellent Bates
teacher, he has many years of personal experience in improving
vision. (As of 2011, Robert is temporarily not teaching.)
Rob
Cohen, Stone Ridge, NY. Rob made major improvements in
his own vision and now combines the Bates Method with his extensive
knowledge of Feldenkrais work.
Nancy
Neff, Fishkill, NY.
Rosemary
Gaddum Gordon, Cambridge, MA and Eliot, ME, (Also for
teacher
training!)
A quote from Rosemary: "Seeing from the core encourages
one to be 'home', to see with the mind rather than trying to see
with just the eyes, to relax and receive the information
entering the eyes."
Martin
Sussman, Topsfield, MA.
Sharon
Hicks, Norristown, PA.
Elizabeth
Pottenger, Louisville, KY
Jessica
Rossiter, Anderson, IN
Canada
Elizabeth
Abraham, Toronto, Ontario
Alexandra
Hughes, Toronto, Ontario
Connie
Brander, Calgary, Alberta
Joy Thompson,
Peachland, BC
Europe
United
Kingdom
The Bates Association for Vision
Education,
England. Includes a list of vision teachers
in the UK.
Bates Vision
Clinic, One Saturday per month: low cost vision classes in Finchley,
London, England
Aileen
Whiteford Edinburgh and Gullane, Scotland as
well as London, England
Margaret Montgomery, Berkhamsted and London, England.
(email
Margaret)
Peter
Mansfield, Portslade, England.
Anna
Bambridge, Glasgow, Scotland & London, England
Kevin Wooding,
Oxford, England
Lizzie
May, London, England
James Laker,
Stroud, England
Ajay
Sehgal, London, England
Erica Richardson, England
Alexandra
Brenan, London, England
Netherlands
(zie ook de NL pagina)
Saskia
Naber, Groningen.
Pieter
Wester, Noord Holland.
Maria van
Velsen, 's-Hertogenbosch.
Thea
Renaud, Haarlem.
Wilko van Zeele, Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zuid Holland
Rijn
de Jonge, Harderwijk, Gelderland
Karin
Hogenboom, Diemen en Amsterdam
Peter Ruiter,
Utrecht.
Heleen
& Guido van Mierlo,, Alphen, Gelderland; en Heerenveen/Katlijk,
Friesland.
Tom
Quackenbush, Nijmegen. Author of Relearning to See.
Website in English
France
Special Note: The 2008 French translation of Dr. Bates original
book is NOT recommended reading according to the Association of
Vision Educators. This book unfortunately has errors and
reflects a major misunderstanding on the part of the translator
regarding the concept of eccentric fixation. Instead of
reading this translation, please contact one of the teachers below.
Art de Voir,
Association of vision teachers in France. (Website in French)
Nina Hutchings,
Rognes, France
Brigitte Cavadias,
Cotignac, France. Combining
Bates with Alexander Technique, Brigitte has been teaching and leading
workshops in France, UK, Sweden and Finland. (Website in English
and French)
Annie
Bohen,
Mainsat, France.
Eva Lothar, Paris, France.
Ghislaine de Laage,
Paris, France.
Italy
Maurizio
Cagnoli, Rome, Italy. The Art of Vision, the website of
Buena Vista.
(Webiste in English, Italian, Portuguese, French, Spanish, German)
Giorgio
Ferrario, Milano, Italy. Giorgio has published twp
books about the Bates Method in Italian: Guarire la Presbiopia
con il Metodo Bates (2011), and Senza Occhiali.
Stefania
Romagnoli, Foligno (PG) Italy. Stafania combines
Bates method with Feldenkrais work.
Morena
Bernardi, Italy
Laura
Canepa, Genova, Italy
Switzerland
Swiss
union of professional vision teachers
Martin Brofman. Lausanne, Switzerland. Martin gives Vision
Workshops in Europe.
(Site in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Danish, Italian,
Portuguese and Brazilian. Wow...)
Anna Hirt Eberle,
Basel, Switzerland.
Carla
Real, Zurich, Switzerland (email
Carla)
Heidi
Hauser, Switzerland
Germany
An
extensive list of vision teachers in Germany including
a few in Austria & Switzerland
Claude
Desroches, Berlin, Germany (Website in English and German)
Marianne
Wiendl, Germany
Uschi
Ostermeier-Sitkowski, Durach-Kempten, Germany
Rest
of Europe
Marie
Schils,
Belgium (Website in French and German)
Hilde
Enziger, Austria
Siergiej Litwinow,
Poland (Website in Polish, English, Czech, and Russian)
Magda
Wawrzycka, Poland
Mikolaj
Markiewicz, Poland
Torill
Opsand, Norway (Website in Norwegian). Torill is a Feldenkrais
practitioner and physiotherapist in addition to being a Bates
teacher.
Tony Helinsky,
Sweden (also has a website
in English)
Sylvia
Lakeland in Lisboa, Portugal (Website in Portuguese and
English)
Amelia
Salvador, MD, Alicante, Spain
Andrea
Buch Romero, Barcelona, Spain
Peter
Vén, Budapest, Hungary. Website in Hungarian,
English,
Italian, French and German.
Sara Van Herbert,
Limassol, Cyprus. Vision on Health. Telephone 00357
25 932716
Australia &
New Zealand
Peter
Grunwald, NZ. Combines Natural Vision with Alexander Technique.
Carina Goodrich,
Maleny, Qld, AU. Carina is continuing her mother's mission.
Barry Auchettl, Smythes Creek,
Victoria, AU. "The more clearly we begin to see ourselves,
the greater clarity we present to the world."
Geoff Hingerty, Sylvania Waters,
NSW, AU. Vision Naturopath
Rest of the world
Asia
Leo Angart. Leo combines the Bates Method with NLP and
Pranic Healing.
He gives workshops in many places: in Asia, North America, Africa,
Australia and Europe.
Website in English, German, Spanish, Chinese, Hungarian, Slovene.
Jim
Pan gives workshops in Singapore and Malaysia
Harry
Quek, Singapore. "Sight without glasses makes a world
of difference."
Dorothea
Goda, Osaka, Japan
Prapanna
Swain in Pondicherry, India. School of Perfect Eyesight
at Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Rony
Bhattacharjee, in Kolkata, India. Also teaches at
the School of Perfect Eyesight
Aruna
Yadav. Workshops in Vizag, India. Read an article
in The
Hindu about her work (in English)
Somnath
Pal, Kolkata / Burrabazar, India
South America
Meir Schneider
and Beatriz Nascimento in Brazil (Website in Portuguese
and some English)
Sylvia
Lakeland in São Paulo, Brazil (Website in Portuguese
and English)
Fernanda
Leite Ribeiro, OD, São Paulo, Brazil. Besides
being an optometrist, Fernanda is an excellent natural vision
teacher who trained with Meir Schneider. She also uses syntonics
(color light therapy).
Jaqueline
Ledesma, Argentinia / Uruguay
Africa
David
Ebisindei Apreala, Ekeki, Yenagoa City, Nigeria
Christopher
Lane, Capetown, South Africa
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Behavioral
Optometrists often do Vision Training (which is different from
the Bates Method) and they usually are supportive of natural
vision improvement.
You
may find a behavioral optometrist near you via these links,
or look in your local phone book.
Find
a behavioral optometrist in the USA or Canada
(OEPF)
Find
a behavioral optometrist in the USA (Optometrists
Network)
Find
a behavioral optometrist in the USA (Cambridge Institute)
Find a behavioral
optometrist in the UK (BABO)
Find
a behavioral optometrist in Australia or New Zealand
(ACBO)
Vind een
functionele optometrist in Nederland (FON)
Most of the Optometrists (OD) and Ophthalmologists (MD) listed
below I know personally. They will be helpful to you when
lowering your prescription during your vision improvement process.
Each one is familiar with the Bates method to some degree.
Western
USA:
Neil
Mietus, OD, Santa Barbara, CA
William
Harpur, OD, San Diego, CA
King
Y Wong, OD, Santa Monica, CA
Carolyn
Wong, OD, Los Angeles, CA
Larry
Jebrock, OD, Novato, CA
Elliot
Kaplan, OD, Mill Valley, CA
John
Downing, OD, PhD, Sebastopol, CA
Sam Berne, OD, Santa Fe, NM. Sam specializes in ADD,
Vision and Learning
Edward
Kondrot, MD, Phoenix, AZ
Jacob
Liberman, OD, PhD, Maui, HI. Jacob is the author
of Light, medicine for the future and Take off your
glasses and see.
No website (yet) for these optometrists/ophthalmologist, but
you'll find them in your phonebook:
Lisa Harvey, OD, Fort Bragg, CA
Neal Apple, MD, Silver City, NM
Cheri Glaus, OD, Norton, OH
Eastern
USA:
Ray
Gottlieb, OD, PhD, (retired). Ray is a very knowledgeable
Bates-loving optometrist, still giving talks about vision improvement
despite his retirement from optometry. Ray's chart has
reversed presbyopia ('over-40-farsightedness') in his patients
and himself.
You can download Ray's chart here
Marc
Grossman, OD, New Paltz & Rye, NY. Marc is
an optometrist with an open mind to the Bates Method and he
uses vision training in his practices. Extensive
source of vision supplements.
Larry
Wallace, OD, Ithaca, NY.
Cathy
Stern, OD, Canton, MA
Steven Gallop,
OD, Broomall, PA. Steven is the author of Looking differently
at nearsightedness and myopia.
Charles
Steinberg, OD, Wexford, PA.
Elsewhere:
Fernanda
Leite Ribeiro, OD, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Besides being
an optometrist, Fernanda is an excellent natural vision teacher
who trained with Meir Schneider. She also uses syntonics (color
light therapy).
Amelia
Salvador, MD, Alicante, Spain
Roberto Kaplan, OD, Vancouver, Canada / Vienna, Austria
Rony
Bhattacharjee, OD, Kolkata, India
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Other vision related websites
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The
Association of Vision Educators. The
AVE website has a practitioners list; it includes many teachers
who do not have websites and are therefore not listed above, so
do check this if you have not yet found a teacher near you!
David Kiesling has set up an excellent site about the Bates
Method, includes many great articles. David's
Bates Method
Store offers a good variety of new and second hand books.
Rune
Kenneth Meisingset has created an awesome site about the Bates
method. Valuable info!
Dr
Poesnecker has good
information about the Bates Method.
Alex Eulenberg
International Society for the Enhancement of Eyesight.
Great resource for Bates materials.
Monica
Pawlan author of Relax,
Smile and Enjoy the View
Clark
Night More Bates Method information
Doug
Marsh Author of Restoring your Eyesight, a Taoist Approach.
Marc
Meisels, a student of the Bates Method who is inspired to help others find the truth.
Ott-lites -
Full spectrum lamps developed by John Ott. For better
vision and health.
More
information about health and light.
They sell John Ott's excellent video: Exploring the Spectrum.
Full
spectrum solutions - more full spectrum lamps
A page explaining
the effect of sunlight on eyes, and doing away with the
myth of Galileo going blind from observing the sun.
Paul E Dennison, Braingym. Very helpful
for people with dyslexia and learning disabilities, closely related
to better vision.
Frank
Navratil B.Sc, N.D. Iridology, Czech Republic. Author of
For your eyes only and The Eye for an Eye
Diet
Bill Sardi, author of
Nutrition and the Eyes.
Krissy
Golub, AZ. Krissy overcame Keratoconus
without surgery and shares her story.
Ray Amsterdam,
UK. Ray overcame macular degeneration naturally and his
site presents a very detailed Case Study of his recovery through
Ayurveda - subsequent to being told "there is no treatment
available to restore ... vision". The site includes full
clinical data, a discussion section, and treatment contact
details.
Alexander Technique, for improved body posture
and movement awareness, to improve eyesight.
Feldenkrais
Method, Somatic education; awareness through
movement.
They have a nice article
about seeing clearly by David Webber.
Egoscue Method,
also for improved posture and pain relief. Very effective.
Milton
Trager MD, The Trager Approach of psychophysical integration
and Mentastics movement education. This can help loosen up
chronic tension in the body.
Jack
Heggie's Total Body Vision (Six CDs of exercises that combine
Feldenkrais with the Bates method)
Vittoz
Method American Vittoz Society. Mental training through
movements and visualization.
Focusing
is a technique for emotional self healing. A great adjunct in
vision improvement.
Emotional
Freedom Technique (EFT) is an easy to learn, easy to use
self help tool for dealing with emotional challenges.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
is a popular technique which allows you to change, adopt, or
eliminate behaviors, as you desire, and gives you the ability to
choose your mental, emotional, and physical states of
well-being.
Autogenic
Training is an effective relaxation technique that originated in
Germany. Easy to learn and easy to use!
Silva Method
is an effective mind training method that helps replace
negative thoughts with positive ones.
Center
for Empowered Learning, Educational Therapy, Los Angeles
Educational
therapy goes beyond tutoring... it changes lives!
We specialize in helping students of all ages who are struggling
with one or more school subjects and have lost faith in their
capacity to succeed. We open the student's
belief system to success and provide all the effective, research-validated
educational programs and tools available to quickly propel a student
to academic achievement.
Peter K. Kaiser, The
Joy of Visual Perception, an e-book about vision.
William
Carter's story of improving his vision. Worth reading!
John
Bryan's vision improvement story from -5 to better than
20/20 vision.
Tutis
Vilis' Undergraduate level course in Sensory Physiology
which includes an "Introduction to Eye Movements".
Christopher
McPeck
EyeCanLearn
Visual skill practices for children
Children's
Vision Information Network, Wichita, KS, USA.
PAVE
(Parents Active for Vision Education) is an organization whose
mission is to raise public awareness of the crucial relationship
between vision and achievement.
Success
stories of people who used vision therapy (different from
Bates Method) to help their vision. Vision therapy can be
a useful adjunct with the Bates Method. If you can't find
a Bates Teacher near you, you may find a Vision Therapist instead.
Eye2Eye,
Solutions In Sight - Computer Eyestrain Treatment System
A website
in Hebrew about the Bates Method. This Israeli website
has much information about Bates.
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