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Vision
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We
cannot teach people anything,
we can only help them discover it
within themselves.
Galileo Galilei
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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.
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:
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section)
Vision Educators in
- Western USA and
Hawaii,
- Eastern USA,
- Canada,
- Europe,
- Australia & New Zealand,
- Asia,
- South America,
- Africa.
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 and Hawaii
Esther
Joy van der Werf. Ojai, CA. (80 Miles NW of Los
Angeles) Also see my travel schedule.
Lisette
Scholl, Templeton, CA.
Claudia
Muehlenweg, El Segundo, CA.
Jeannie
'Viveka' Fitzsimmons, Beverly Hills, CA.
Sue Choi,
Venice, CA.
Jerriann
Taber, San Diego, CA.
Dawn
Rose, San Diego, CA.
Sheela
Alex, Encinitas, CA.
Denise
Hornbeak, Cardiff by the Sea, CA.
Marie
Wilson, Sacramento, CA.
Meir
Schneider, 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.
Toni
St. Clair, Dallas, TX
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.
Roseanne Hutchinson, Athens, GA.
Elizabeth
Pottenger, Louisville, KY.
Jessica
Rossiter, Anderson, IN.
Canada
Canadian
Association of Vision Educators
Joy Thompson, Peachland, BC.
Elizabeth
Abraham, Toronto, Ontario.
Alexandra
Hughes, Toronto, Ontario.
Karen
Alison, Toronto, Ontario.
Sheila
Burr, Kincardine and Goderich, Ontario.
Emmanuel
Morin, Quebec City.
Connie
Brander, Calgary, Alberta.
Dale
Goddard, Olds, Alberta.
Europe
United
Kingdom
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.
Sally
Kirk, Bath & Bristol, England
Erica
Richardson, England.
Alexandra
Brenan, London, England.
Netherlands
(zie ook de NL pagina)
Rijn
de Jonge, Harderwijk, Gelderland.
Karin
Hogenboom, Diemen en Amsterdam.
Pieter Wester, Noord Holland.
Maria van
Velsen, 's-Hertogenbosch.
Thea
Renaud, Haarlem.
Peter
Ruiter, Utrecht.
Mieke
Rep, Middelburg, Zeeland.
Tom
Quackenbush, Nijmegen. Author of Relearning to See.
Website in English
Saskia
Naber, Groningen. (geeft tijdelijk geen les)
Wilko
van Zeele, Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zuid Holland. (geeft
tijdelijk geen les)
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
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
Tan 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.
Lech
Bitka, Ecuador.
Africa
Christopher
Lane, Capetown, South Africa.
David Ebisindei Apreala, Ekeki, Yenagoa City, Nigeria.
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Behavioral
Optometrists often do Vision Therapy (which is different from
the Bates Method) and they usually are supportive of natural
vision improvement. They are also known as Functional
Optometrists.
You
may find a behavioral optometrist near you via these links,
or look in your local phone book.
Find
a behavioral optometrist world-wide (COVD.org)
Find a behavioral optometrist in the USA or Canada
(OEPF.org)
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.co.uk)
Find
a behavioral optometrist in Australia or New Zealand
(ACBO.org.au)
Find
a functional optometrist in Mexico (Consejo Mexicano
de Optometria Funcional / COMOF)
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. Many are familiar with the Bates method to some
degree.
Western
USA:
James
B. Mayer, OD, Thousand Oaks, CA. Vision therapy
and accommotrac available.
King
Y. Wong, OD, Santa Monica, CA.
Carolyn
Wong, OD, Los Angeles, CA.
William
Harpur, OD, San Diego, CA.
Larry
Jebrock, OD, Novato, CA.
Elliot
Kaplan, OD, Mill Valley, CA.
John
Downing, OD, PhD, Sebastopol, CA.
Joseph Trachtman,
OD, Seattle, WA. Inventor of the Accommotrac Vision Training
device.
Sam Berne, OD, Santa Fe, NM. Sam specializes in ADD,
Vision and Learning
Jacob
Liberman, OD, PhD, Maui, HI. Jacob is the author
of Light, medicine for the future and Take off your
glasses and see (listed on the book
page). He also developed the Eyeport.
No website (yet) for these optometrists/ophthalmologist,
but you'll find them in your phonebook:
Lisa Harvey, OD, Fort Bragg, CA.
Miguel Chaar-Navarro. OD, Tucson, AZ.
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:
Estelle
Saunders, OD, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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.
Alex
Frauenfeld, MD, Vienna, Austria.
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.
Sue Barry,
also known as 'Stereo Sue', a website on strabismus and Frederick
Brock's work.
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.
FitEyes.com,
a site for those with glaucoma to connect and share solutions
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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Affordable Prescription Glasses |
Cheap glasses? - Yes, that's possible!
Are you nearsighted and jealous of those farsighted people who
can cheaply buy their reading glasses at any dollar store?
Or are you farsighted with a different level for each eye?
I have good news! The websites below sell glasses at very
affordable rates, sometimes for less than US$30 per pair.
You type in the (reduced) prescription you want, you chose a frame,
pay, and you'll get your glasses in the mail. It's Easy!
Click here for a guide to buying glasses online.
zennioptical.com
(based in California)
greateyeglasses.com
(based in California)
bestpriceglasses.com
(based in California)
eyebuydirect.com
(based in California)
lensesrx.com
(based in New York) Send your frames, for $30 they put in the
lenses you want.
eyeglassesdirect.com
(based in New York) Also has option to use your own frames.
39dollarglasses.com (based in New York)
glassesusa.com
(based in New Jersey)
justeyewear.com
(based in Maryland)
goggles4u.com
(based ?, free shipping)
selectspecs.com (based in England)
directsight.co.uk
(based in England)
glassesdirect.co.uk
(based in England)
glassescrafter.com
(based in England)
onestopglasses.co.uk
(based in England)
specsuperstore.com
(based in England)
speckyfoureyes.com
(based in England) Will reglaze your current frames with new lenses.
glasses4less.net
(based in Scotland)
specsavers.nl
(based in the Netherlands)
brillen24.nl
(based in the Netherlands)
This list is not complete. To find more sites
like these, do an internet search for 'affordable prescription
glasses' or something similar.
Contact lenses
are a 'medical device' and a USA law
from 2004 stipulates that they can only be sold with a valid
prescription from your eye-doctor. I don't know about
laws in other countries, but this Canadian site seems to sell
contact lenses without asking for a prescription. Please
check your national laws to be sure...
globallens.ca
(based in British Columbia, Canada)
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