Keren Ohayon: Taking my place in the world

This conversation is about sustaining as much as it is about emerging.  It reflects an ongoing internal conversation about declaring my place in the world and negotiating, how much space I have within to take this world in, to live in it, to dip and swim in the river of life. It invited several years of exploration of that place of the in-between, the “threshold point”.  Between an inhale and an exhale, between two cycles of breath, between one thought and the one that follows it, in that place where one thing has ended and the next thing has yet to begin. Keren Ohayon is a somatic oriented speech language therapist living and working in NYC. Born and raised in Jerusalem Israel, NYC has been home for her for almost 20 years. She completed her BA in Behavioral Sciences in Ben Gurion University, Israel and her MA in Speech Pathology at Lehman College, The City University of New York. Keren has extensive experience working with young children and families in a variety of settings, including Early Intervention, preschools, and private practice. Her focus has been supporting children and their parents as they construct the building blocks of relationship, interaction and communication. She approaches therapy from a mind-body perspective and incorporates somatic practices that address children and families more holistically. Keren has been a clinical educator at the Lehman College Speech and Hearing Center for the past 7 years. Published July 2015.