Stephen Rosenholtz passed away peacefully on September 5, 2025.  He was 77 years old. Stephen graduated from the Amherst Feldenkrais training program in 1983. He was widely known and respected for his work as a Trainer and Educational Director, and for his award-winning video programs for children, based on the work of Dr. Feldenkrais.

Stephen  left his products in the public domain for all to enjoy. Many thanks to Robert Bachrach and Stephen’s estate for providing access to Move Like the Animals, Monkey Moves, and Basic Awareness Through Movement Lessons Series 1 and 2.

Thank you to Arlyn Zones and Marilupe Campero, for providing your remembrances of Stephen:

Arlyn Zones Remembrance

I met Stephen in 1980, in the first year of the Amherst Training.   In 1982 he moved to San Francisco where I was living and we became roommates.  On most days Stephen could be found sitting in a big armchair, poring through Anatomy books.   He held a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Education and he had absolute confidence in his intelligence and his potential as a Feldenkrais® teacher.  At the same time, he never put himself above others, never competed with anyone and never gossiped.  

Early on, Stephen was offered a job at the San Francisco Athletic and Orthopedic Rehabilitation Center.  The man running the clinic hired people trained in several somatic modalities and brought Stephen on to do one-to- one Awareness Through Movement® lessons with the “patients”.   Somehow, Stephen found a way to get me hired as well.

This was a great opportunity to gain experience in the early years of our practice and helped bring us some steady income while we slowly built up our private practices.

We graduated from our training in 1983 and had a small in room in our apartment where we could give Functional Integration® lessons.   Stephen was already involved in developing two important offerings. The first was to be a set of videos with recorded Awareness Through Movement lessons.

The second amazing project was the writing and choreographing  of the Move Like the Animals videos. Move Like the Animals always held a special place in my heart.  It was brilliantly conceived and executed and  every child or parent I had the chance to share it with really loved it. The favorite of everyone was the “Alligator” song done in calypso style.  He would later follow with a second series called Monkey Moves.

We left our apartment and went our own ways sometime in 1984.  We stayed in touch and when we both became Assistant Trainers in 1988 sometimes had the chance to work together.  We became Trainers in 1994 and sometimes extended invitations to each other to come and teach in the trainings we were running.  He received many jobs from the Amherst graduates who were now running their own trainings in Switzerland, Italy, Israel, and Germany.   He was in high demand, and soon was spending more than half the year away from home, teaching.

For many years, we would get together for an annual December dinner.  In addition to all his European teaching jobs, he had started his own training in Mexico and would continue that for the next 25 years.   The last time I saw Stephen he had finally managed to stop travelling and was overjoyed at the comfort of staying home and pursuing his many hobbies.  He had always been an active practitioner of Tai Chi.  Now he told me that he had started teaching Tai Chi to seniors.  He found so much happiness in this.

Marilupe Campero Remembrance

Stephen worked with us in Mexico for more than 25 years. He was the Educational Director of four professional training programs, Co-Educational Director for the 5th and 6th programs, and Trainer for the last program, which we will complete next April. 

Stephen was a teacher by vocation, always putting the emphasis on the trainees and on creating the conditions for all of us to learn, students, teaching staff, and himself, by studying and practicing every day.

For us, it has been very sad and a great loss that he has passed away, but at the same time, we are grateful that he was such an important pillar in the development of the Feldenkrais Method in Mexico and in various Spanish speaking countries. 

A few weeks after his death, we held a celebration with the Associación Mexicana del Método Feldenkrais to honor and celebrate his life; there, many practitioners expressed how Steve had impacted their professional and personal learning processes.

We will always remember him with deep affection, gratitude, and joy.

May God rest his soul.