Vladimir Latocha

Vladimir Latocha, OLY, PhD, SEP is a retired Olympic breaststroke swimmer (Atlanta ’96), who became a Feldenkrais practitioner.

Since a young age, both swimming and studies were important to him, hence he studied to graduate from a Master in Scientific Computing, while training in swimming to reach the Olympic level. After quitting swimming, he finished a PhD in applied mathematics and discovered the existence of the Feldenkrais Method in 2001. 

He is also a Somatic Experiencing practitioner. He is still working as a mathematician and became the director of an institute that promotes studies to improve the way mathematics are taught, where he is starting a study group on the topic “mathematics and anxiety.”