The Feldenkrais Training Academy Reinvents How Feldenkrais Practitioners Are Trained
This training model combines the exploration, warmth, and sense of play that the Feldenkrais Method® is known for, with the curriculum, discipline, and support required to become a successful professional.
Get ready to dive deep and learn new skills that will change your life! The Feldenkrais training is a transformative process—you'll improve your own life, and learn how to help your own students do the same.
This accredited training covers everything you’ll need to become a certified Feldenkrais practitioner with a thriving practice.
What you will learn
You’ll learn to be an exquisite teacher, highly skilled at leading Awareness through Movement® classes and one-one-one Functional Integration® lessons. Your studies will include:
Foundational Knowledge: You'll study and test the principles, strategies, and modalities that inform the Feldenkrais Method.
Self-Organization: Embodying and using the functional principles and processes in your own experience, you'll be a living example for your clients.
Assessment: You'll be able to determine what your clients want, need, and can use when you work with them.
Execution: You'll become proficient at creating and supporting the context and conditions that help your clients function, move, and act to fulfill their desired outcomes.
The primary motive of a Feldenkrais practitioner is to help people become self-reliant in a changing world. You won’t treat conditions or problems—you'll learn to help people recover their physical integrity, restore their emotional dignity, and thrive in the complexity of daily life. You will master helping people help themselves by learning how to direct them in finding resources within them they have not conceived of. You will do this by learning how to ask specific questions to direct their attention, so they can find new untapped resources within.
What's included
Our new training model creates and supports a culture of learning, with a comprehensive suite of activities over three-and-a-half years.
In-Person Segments: You'll attend 120 days of training (in-person) divided into 12 segments, three segments per year, three to four months apart. A typical day includes Awareness Through Movement lessons, lectures, demonstrations, and Functional Integration practice.
Year-Round Learning: One of the tenets we hold most highly is that learning needs to continue throughout the year. You'll meet online monthly with your mentoring group as well as for the Feldenkrais and the Brain sessions, have homework, and learn how to practice both Awareness Through Movement and Functional Integration in more and more comprehensive ways.
Mentoring Groups: You'll be part of a mentoring group led by Jeff Haller, who will support your learning and ensure that you are receiving the individual time and attention you need. Your group will meet monthly between the in-person segments. You'll get to know the people in your class, supporting each other throughout the training.
Competency-based Learning Environment: Our goal is to help you become a self-regulating, reflective student as you learn the artistry of being a Feldenkrais practitioner. You'll assess your own progress towards your goals, reflect on your development, and document your intention to reach the next learning landmarks.
Experience and Supervision: You'll receive substantial clinical supervision, and teach and document a significant number of Awareness Through Movement and Functional Integration lessons. You will document your in-class practice sessions as part of your graduation requirements, to graduate confident that you have the experience and skills you need.
You’ll Also Receive:
A Premium membership subscription on the Feldenkrais First app while you are enrolled in FTA2, giving you access to workshops, the ATM libraries of Jeff Haller and Andrew Gibbons with over 1,000 lessons, thematic Awareness Through Movement programs, and more.
The FTA2 online student portal, located on the Feldenkrais First app, includes online spaces for conversations, session links, class recordings, and more.
Discounts on these and other recordings:
Jeff Haller’s comprehensive course, The Art and Practice of Functional Integration, including skeletal and muscular study and practice; learning to perceive patterns of movement; functional thinking; and composing Functional Integration lessons.
Advanced Trainings led by Jeff Haller, including Learning Self-Organization; Discovering Patterns in Functional Integration; Developing Internal Strength; Perspectives on Walking; Crafting Functional Integration Lessons.
Awareness Through Movement annual workshops with themes like Seeking Pure Feldenkrais—A Study of Non-violence in Movement; Self-Reliance; Emergence; Taking ATM Teaching into the Future; Awareness Through Movement as a Contemplative Practice.