I am currently making my winter ski plans. Given that the kids are all in school, (the boys have started Kindergarten, Athena in 2nd grade), I have to make plans in advance. I was excited to hear that you have moved to Truckee as that is where we do the bulk of our skiing. We will likely be coming in late december, early January, and/or mid February. I would like to know if you have pinned down a new home resort. We would like to book lessons for Alexander Burrs-President. He has been talking about skiing this entire year.

Looking forward to hearing from you.
Marie President
Demetra Burrs

You can email me and send me your email address. I couldn’t find it on this blog.

Thanks for all the information on Feldenkrais and Anat Baniel. I’ve passed it on to folks who would be interested.

Take care
Bonnie and Fred

Though this was our first experience with Eveline, we have had a couple other adaptive lessons at Heavenly this year. I can’t say enough about how positive an experience it has been. We found out about the program from a particularly frustrated “regular” kids’ ski instructor who really didn’t know how to reach or work with my daughter.

In the adaptive lesson environment, the instructors have taken on much more responsibility for understanding my daughter’s challenges and trying to mitigate them where possible, or work around or with them when it’s not. Eveline, in particular, really seems to understand the physical movement and coordination issues that can go along with a neurological difference.

Best of all, both kids had tons of fun and are delighted to know Eveline.

We are fortunate to own a timeshare here at Heavenly and come every year in the Spring. Although is a long way away from our home in Puerto Rico, we have yet another reason to look forward to our yearly, skiing pilgrimage, now that Eveline has befriended our son. Thanks for making a difference in our son’s life!

Unfortunately, we were only able to ski for 2 days due to the weather but we will be back soon and very much look forward to Eveline coaching Michael into a competent skier, now we just have to get his brother up to his level!

Thank you Eveline for the wonderful work you are doing to for our kids! It’s people like you who make a huge difference.

Our son is autistic and we were not sure he would be able to handle all that skiing involves and we were wrong (I am so happy to say)!

Eveline was patient, loving and an AMAZING teacher. Our son went from scared to skiing in three days. While the first day was not easy (our son cried and demanded the skis OFF!) she kept with him and patiently worked through his small tantrums and eventually coaxed the skis back on him.

Eveline understands what a child on the spectrum deals with and we did not have to explain in advance his issues – she already had a good understanding of ASD.

It is important to point out that the lessons for your child cost the same as if they were in a group lesson – but they have private one on one time instead because our special needs children cannot learn in the same group environment as others. I was so thankful that this was available at that cost.

Day #3 of our son’s ski lessons with Eveline brought tears to my eyes as I watched our son and Eveline take a chair lift together to the top of the hill and then my son skied down the hill towards me. It was a life defining moment for me – he CAN do it! It felt great and there were cheers all around for a job well done. I will always remember that day.

We are a family of skiers (and snowboarders) and we will plan our trips around Heavenly and Eveline’s availability to work with our son. I cannot say enough about how wonderful she is!!!