Testimonials

 

Updated Tuesday, May 06, 2008

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I enjoy your Yoga class very much.  It does wonders for me.  I'd like to say thank you and ask you to please send me the pictures so I can share
them with my family. Love Hilda May 2008

I promised you an email many weeks ago and I want to apologize for getting this out to you so late.  My name is Leah Joy and I was attending your M,W,F (noonish) classes at Bally's, Englewood Cliffs.  About a month ago I fractured a rib and have been unable to continue my practice but I think about it every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  I am a dancer of 28 years and an instructor for more than 16 years in over 25 styles of dance.  I have studied in different parts of the world and across the United States in an effort to strengthen my own dance meditation practice and bring balance and inspiration to my life and the lives of my students.  It wasn't until I met you that I made strong and steady, continuous breakthroughs in my practice.  Your teachings offer me clear, challenging, accurate and gentle guidance and yet you still give me the space I need to take responsibility for my own actions physically, mentally, spiritually.   I have had some unexpected major emotional "stuff" come up during your classes and have been able to litterally breathe through it; something I have always found "unsafe" to do under the direction of other teachers.  This experience has occasionally moved me to tears after class.  Good tears.  I want to thank you for your commitment to yoga.  It is very apparrent that you practice what you teach; an honorable and humble trait.  You have helped me (and so many others) to begin to realize my potential.  I look foward to rejoining your class very soon. Kindest regards and Om shanti, Leah Joy I equally enjoy my class with you and always look forward to participate with you.  I love your readings about Yoga philosophy, it illuminates continually to a brighter path in spirituality.  Leah 12.2007
You make this class so interesting, not only physically but spiritually as well. Namaste, Lana 7.31.07
Thank you so much for the workshop on Saturday! It was a beautiful experience. Thank you for all your work and your care and teachings. I would love to hear updates about your work with the orphanage and how things are going. Also, I don't have Natalie's email address. If you do will you forward this to her? I love you both dearly and feel so grateful to you! xox, Julie Ps. Your site is amazing! What a great resource! 5.07

I wanted to thank you for your skills and compassion as a teacher.  I  am so enjoying my journey though life with yoga, and I look forward to Monday's class every week... sometimes as the only good thing on a  Monday, sometimes as a rest and reflection on the craziness of the past weekend (or life in general), and always for the practice and thought-provoking words and chants. I wish for you a happy and healthy trip to the DR, and a Happy  Birthday as well! Namaste, MFH 4.07

Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to be on your private e-mail list. It's been a great pleasure for me to take your Yoga classes in Spa at Glen point. I am very excited about your trip to India. I have no doubt you will enjoy your study in India and that you become a very respected teacher of Yoga in Manhattan when you come back.  I am looking forward to receiving your e-mail messages from India. Thank you very much, LM

I've took yoga classes with Felise last 2 years ago when I was going through chemo-therapy. and Felise helped me with recovery. Then I was out of country for awhile and now i want to start join her classes again. She is just wonderful!!!!!!!!!!Jenny

How are you? I've missed your amazing class the last few weeks since I've been out-of-town, organizing our spiritual retreats in Cape May, NJ, Martha's Vineyard, and Upstate NY (Deansboro). Thanks for your classes, spirit, and you - you enrich my life and I greatly appreciate all your efforts. Talk soon, my friend, with peace and love,- Scott

Thanks for talking to me last night after class. What you said during class hit home and also what you said later was what I needed to hear. Your support means a lot to me! Namaste, Krystina

It is pleasure to take the classes with you .Peace, Gulfem Felise, Words don't do justice to the thanks I have for meeting you. I look forward to a profound education every time I step into your classroom. You are a true inspiration. "When a log that has just started to burn is placed next to one that is burning fiercely, and after a while they are separated again, the first log will be burning with much greater intensity. After all, it is the same fire." - Eckhart Tolle.   Namaste :) Lauren Donohue

It's me, Linda from your Wed. night class at the Galaxy! I just wanted to let you know that I've been checking out ALL the links on your website you e-mailed me. AWESOME Felise!!!!!! I've been on your site for over an hour now because there's so much to look at and read and it's so interesting!!!!!! Thank-you for sending it to me again! Keep me on your e-mail list. I truly enjoy reading up on all this great news that has to do with Yoga! Your site is really amazing! You did not miss anything! I'm so impressed at how informative it is! Can't believe you put that together yourself. WOW! It really is GREAT!!!!!!! Thank you once again! You are the BEST!!!!  Also, was happy to read you're planning a "Yoga Retreat" soon! I'm VERY interested in that and want to know more details as soon as you know them! Sorry, I can't make any of your workshops. The times don't work out for me. Oh well.....Well Felise, I just wanted to share my thoughts with you tonight. Thanks again for being a wonderful Yoga teacher. So happy your at the Galaxy! I only wish I could afford to have a one-on-one yoga session with you, as I feel at this point in my practice, I need a bit more attention! Happy New Year to you too! Sincerely LINDA S.

I attend your classes at the Saddle Brook Bally and I want to tell you that I enjoy them very much. You inspire me and I try to get out of work early on Mondays just to be there. I feel like a new revived person after your class and I Thank You Very Much. I have missed some classes due to the crazy schedules during the holidays, but I am looking forward to attending this Friday. Happy Holidays! Helen Froyan PS I love your classes and I look forward to them every week. You are an inspiration.

I really enjoyed your class tonight, you're A very thoughtful teacher that any person could ever have. I just wish that I could be there more often, once A week really is not enough for me as I'm getting better and better as you see and that's how I feel also that I'm improving with my Yoga's practice don't you think so? :) , Oh yes! I forgot to tell you that I finished the book that you told me to read and it is so good I enjoyed every page of it and took me A long time to get done with it, what I think is every one that taking your class should read it, this way they could follow up with you easily, cause this book has it all, every and each step that we need to know it's there, and I thank you again for giving me this idea of reading this book. Happy Thanks Giving, I'll see you Friday, Love, Rania

Hello Felise, Wow, I've actually been on your website before and enjoy it very much. I've gone to Barnes and Nobles several times to look over the books you've recommended.  I'm looking forward to being the proud owner of a few of them soon. I'm wondering if there's any books that you think are particularly good for breathing techniques and meditation. I'd love the opportunity to take another yoga class with you. I really enjoy your classes - they are always spiritual, soothing and challenging. Hey, I got to do my first bonafide headstand with you! Let me preface what will follow by stating that I know that yoga practice is extremely individual and that its not a place for judgment. So if it seemed that I wasn't putting in enough effort, that was the reason. Well, probably, but I just wanted you to know. Thanks again, Felise. Best wishes, Dorys

I am a professional concert cellist and a cello teacher, I am very aware of the process of being a teacher and I understand the function of the human body. I also appreciate learning in a supportive spiritual environment. I realized from the first yoga lesson with Felise that she possesses a sincere quality and she is an educated, true yoga teacher and she acts as a medium for the teachings of yoga. Carmen Shiff.

Thought about you the other day as Natalie chanted the Guru chant - sure do miss your rendition. Just wanted to drop you a line and wish you a hapy thanksgiving - hope you've got alot to be thankful for. Glanced through your website - seems you're touching alot of lives (lots of testimonials ) - sounds like you're growing where you've been planted - congrats!! Take care, Kathy Felise I wish you to have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day. I feel very good after each of your yoga classes, since they give more energy and make me feel healthier. Thank you so much for your help .Sincerely Marion

It is a pleasure to be a student in  YOGA class. I do like and admire your personality, the way you teach and handle the class. It shows how you are dedicated to teaching yoga and taking pride of what you do. Your choice of music with your good voice. I can keep on and on, but it is a true word of admiration and acknowledgment to your effort. Keep on doing the good work. Namaste Zaki

Hi I took your class today at Bally's in Saddle Brook.  Thanks for such a wonderful hour. Melissa 10/03

I love your class. I have been a teacher for over 20 years and I am now in charge of 35 teachers, and I can tell you that I am so impressed by your teaching style, knowledge, and approach. I had written to you before about starting a class at my school. I am still working on it. I am becoming more flexible and can do poses with ease that killed me a few short months ago. I deeply appreciate your time in responding to my questions. Sharon I'm really starting to learn what Yoga is all about, and of course I'm getting better as I'm practicing with Felise Berman, so please here's my suggestion to you, if you can try to bring some of your classes to Wayne Bally club I'll appreciate it, thank you so much for giving me this chance...Rania Aug 12, 2003

Thanks for the email. You are quite an accomplished teacher. And we do appreciate it. At Bally's Englewood Cliffs. Your class is a better class.. it would be great to duplicate that on Saturdays for many reasons. Michele Let me take this opportunity to thank you for the happy effect you have had on our lives. Sheila is "hooked" on the feelings she gets from your classes, and since I like to be with her, I go to the gym, which is very important to my physical health especially in regard to my back problems. Also, Sheila carries that peaceful, energetic, focused, centered quality right into the car with me, and it is catching!

Thanks so much for your wonderful classes - I really do feel great during your class and afterwards! Also, thanks for your wonderful words and reading. Not only are they beautiful and truthful but they help me a lot as I am always on a quest to make my life a happier and more peaceful one. So thank you  thank you thank you. Have a wonderful weekend! Teri Felise is my friend, my mentor, and, ultimately, a respected colleague. Felise is an innately gifted teacher.  She has a natural ability to recognize the abilities of others and facilitate their development.  She always manages to do this with compassion, sensitivity, and without ego involvement.  I have been in a position to observe her relationship with many individuals, businesses, and organizations.  She always proves to be an invaluable asset thanks to her intelligence, enthusiasm, and resourcefulness.  Felise was born with more gifts and talents than I could ever hope to list here.  That, however, is the easy part.  It is her commitment to refining those abilities and attaining new goals that has always impressed me.  She is an avid student, embracing new challenges with a total commitment to learning, growth, and expansion.   Through the years I have watched her work tirelessly on her own personal growth and share unselfishly from the lessons she has learned.  Felise is one of the most sincere and bravely honest people I know.  She is committed to personal ideals and the pursuit of internal objectives. While she holds herself to a higher standard of development, I have never heard her judge another person’s process or rate of growth. I can think of no one more suited to assist in the growth, healing and education of others. Lavaughn Slavin, San Diego
Felise has helped me tremendously. Her insight and channeled message have brought clarity and sense of purpose to my professional and personal life. I highly recommend her.” Mitchell J. Schwartz. President M.J.S. Investment Advisor
“We value our connection with Felise, her enthusiasm and the fine qualities she represents. May she continue to spread light to all whom come in contact with you” New Jersey Metaphysical Society.  
"I am grateful to have had the privilege of working with her, I have also participated in several of her workshops. That experience brought me to a new level of understanding about my own spiritual evolution.   Felise's intuitive nature; her consistent humility and unconditional loving ways would be a wonderful addition to Jivamuki's.  Felise is a woman who knows her body; having taken many yoga classes with her this was evident.  Felise is a Teacher from the heart, one who stands with integrity and always remains a student". Melissa V. Rizzoli, Montclair NJ
I'm a new member at your Yoga class, I've been practicing with you for almost 4 weeks, you are awesome-wonderful-a very sweet person to be with and I really feel great about my self. I have proven something very interesting about practicing Yoga that is how It helps me with my mind/body and relaxes me. Thanks again Rania