The Joy of Seeing with Natural Clarity!
Improve your vision and overcome the need for glasses or contact lenses while avoiding laser surgery.

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.

Other vision related websites  
- links to more teachers and to other very useful and interesting sites about vision.

E-groups on natural vision  
- communicate with others who are going through the process of improving their vision.

Western USA

Esther Joy van der Werf.  Ojai, CA (80 Miles NW of Los Angeles).  Also see my travel schedule.
Jeannie 'Viveka' Fitzsimmons, Beverly Hills, CA.
Max Mandolini, Los Angeles, CA.
Sue Choi, Venice, CA
Jerriann Taber, San Diego, CA.
Marie Wilson, Sacramento, CA.
Meir Schneider's School of Self-Healing, San Francisco, CA.
Teresa Bowen, Davis, CA.
Larry Jebrock, OD, Novato, CA (not a Bates method teacher, but a 'natural-minded' optometrist.)
Gene Younger, Portland, OR & Vancouver, WA.
Toshiyasu Abe, Seattle, WA. Tel: (206) 898-9988.  "Studying vision is studying life."
Carol Gallup, Pt Townsend, WA.
Troy Ballard, Orem, UT.
Alan Winn, UT. A delightful site about myopia (nearsightedness)
Greg Marsh, Fort Collins, CO.
Sam Berne, OD, Santa Fe, NM. Sam specializes in ADD, Vision and Learning

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.
Jacob Liberman, OD, PhD, Maui, HI.  Jacob is the author of Light, medicine for the future and Take off your glasses and see.

Eastern USA

Robert Lichtman, Brooklyn / NYC, NY. Robert is an excellent Bates teacher, he has many years of personal experience in improving vision.
Ray Gottlieb, OD, PhD, Rochester, NY.  Ray is a very knowledgeable Bates-loving optometrist.  Ray's chart has reversed presbyopia ('over-40-farsightedness') in his patients and himself.  
You can download Ray's chart here
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.  
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.
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. Includes a list of behavioral optometrists by state.
Jana Vilner, Great Barrington, MA
Charles M Steinberg, OD, Wexford, PA.
Otis Brown, Waynesboro, PA.
Sharon Hicks, Norristown, PA.
Elizabeth Pottenger, Louisville, KY
Per Scott, Fairfield, IA

Canada

Elizabeth Abraham, Toronto, Canada.
Roberto Michael Kaplan, OD, Canada / Vienna, Austria
Connie Brander, Calgary, Alberta

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.
Peter Mansfield, Portslade, England.  An experienced 'classic' Bates teacher.
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, The Netherlands.  Saskia is an excellent Bates teacher. 
Peter Ruiter, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 
Guido van Mierlo, Gelderland, The Netherlands. 
Rijn de Jonge, Harderwijk, The Netherlands. 
Pieter Wester, Noord Holland, The Netherlands. Information about the Bates Method.
Tom Quackenbush, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Author of Relearning to See.  Website in English
Christopher Markert, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Website in English.
Maria van Velsen, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands.  
Thea Renaud, Haarlem, The Netherlands.  

France
Special Note: The new (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.

Rest of Europe
An extensive list of more than 80 vision teachers in Germany
Claude Desroches, Berlin, Germany (Website in English and German)
Marie Schils, Belgium (Website in French and German)
Siergiej Litwinow, Poland (Website in Polish, English, Czech, and Russian)
Magda Wawrzycka, Poland 
Torill Opsand, Norway (Website in Norwegian). Torill is a Feldenkrais practitioner and physiotherapist in addition to being a Bates teacher.
Roberto Michael Kaplan, OD, Vienna, Austria / Vancouver, Canada
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.
Maurizio Cagnoli, Italy. The Art of Vision, the website of Buena Vista.
(Webiste in English, Italian, Portuguese, French, Spanish, German)
Giorgio Ferrario, Milano, Italy.  (Also: www.scuolabates.it)
Sylvia Lakeland in Lisboa, Portugal (Website in Portuguese and English)
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
Nick Focus, Athens, Greece

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

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.
Harry Quek, Singapore. "Sight without glasses makes a world of difference."
Meir Schneider and Beatriz Nascimento in Brazil (Website in Portuguese and some English)
Sylvia Lakeland in São Paulo, Brazil (Website in Portuguese and English)
Prapanna Swain in Pondicherry, India.  School of Perfect Eyesight at Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Aruna Yadav. Workshops in Vizag, India.  Read an article in The Hindu about her work (in English)
David Ebisindei Apreala, Ekeki, Yenagoa City, Nigeria
Christopher Lane, Capetown, South Africa

   
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