DATES, TOPICS & SINGLE SESSION REGISTRATION:

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All sessions are Saturdays, 10am–1pm PT.

• January 31, 2026: Baby Crawling and Asymmetry: Understanding Patterns in Movement

  • We are engaged with the environment we live in from the point of conception; some might say earlier. As humans we develop asymmetric patterns of behavior that are foundational to all of our subsequent life’s activities. The subtlety of these asymmetrical patterns are not known to us until we discover the sensorial acuity necessary to bring them to light. With this knowledge we can discover how these patterns are ingrained in all of our actions, and learn to refine and change them toward living a life of elegance.

• February 28, 2026: Reversibility

  • For the most part, people in the Feldenkrais world of exploration and learning consider a movement reversible if they are able to return through the path they came from as they interact with Awareness Through Movement®. Dr. Feldenkrais’s definition of reversibility, which he gave in a talk in Copenhagen in 1964, is significantly more precise than this. In this workshop, we will study what he meant by reversibility, which might be seen as activating ability.

• March 28, 2026: Sitting to Standing: Jeff’s Perspective

  • In the Feldenkrais world, there are some significant misconceptions about the process of going from sitting to standing. In this class, we will bring to light those misconceptions and learn to experience moving from sitting to standing through the absolute trajectory involving minimal muscular effort and the experience of profound simplicity.

• April 25, 2026: Gravity & Ground Forces

  • We tend to think of organizing ourselves to be upright over our hips, knees, and feet. 380 years of evolution suggests that we might be upside-down in how we experience ourselves in the field of gravity. In this class, we will turn our attention and activities to experience support from the ground up.

• May 30, 2026: The Elements of Behavior: Thinking, Sensing, Feeling, Acting

  • Thinking, sensing, feeling, and acting are the four aspects of behavior through which we know ourselves and orient ourselves for action in our own personal worlds. We tend to conflate some of these terms; for example, we use the word “feeling” when we mean “sensing,” or “feeling” when we are actually “thinking.” Is it a feeling when you say, “I feel like going for a walk,” or is that a thought? What feelings might be present within you that are energizing your thinking process? Awareness is hidden in generalities and we don’t really say what we mean, which keeps us hidden from ourselves. In this class, we will delve into the specificity of awareness and these four aspects of behavior.

• June 13, 2026: Specificity of Support: Related to Muscular Tonus & Elegant Action

  • Our muscle tone is determined by the specificity with which we find support from the surfaces with which we are engaged. The more precise we are in engaging with surfaces of support, the more accurate we can be in our actions and posture. The idea that we can train muscles for support, as in core stability exercises, is a fallacy. Clear precise support offers us the ability to move with a minimum of muscular activity, leaving us with a high potential for change and variability.

• July 18, 2026: Conceptualization & its Effect on Learning

  • Conceptualization is not understanding. The movement or cognitive scientist who will not engage in Awareness Through Movement® keeps them from knowing what they don’t know, or understanding what they can know.

• August 29, 2026: Perspectives on Walking

  • In many circles, it is commonly accepted that walking is the process of leaning, or falling forward and organizing your foot and leg underneath you. The speed you walk is determined by the degree to which you fall forward and catch yourself. Is that how a master of Tai Chi or an accomplished martial artist would walk? Dr. Feldenkrais said, good posture is the ability to move from any position to another, without hesitation, or having to prepare yourself for change. If your walking includes moments of falling, how is it good posture?

• September 26, 2026: Attention, Intention, & Awareness Related to Anxiety

  • The precision with which we attend to how we act can alter how we intend to act. In this class, we will attend to how we attend and experience how we can alter our intention, leading to a profound change in our sense of self or self-image.

• October 24, 2026: Classic Lessons with a Jeff Haller Twist

  • There are many Awareness Through Movement® lessons that are considered to be seminal and “classically taught.” In this session, we will explore several “classic lessons” from a different perspective, leading to a very different experience and understanding of potentials within ourselves in the lesson.

• November 21, 2026: Illuminating Your Skeleton

  • In general, people, including Feldenkrais practitioners, have a vague sense of their skeleton and the precision with which we can learn to move. Our musculature and the ability to organize ourselves for action is dependent on our specificity of support. Moment by moment, we can learn to organize our skeleton to counteract the force of gravity, and learn to move from the inside-out. In this sense, we can learn to utilize our attention and intention to illuminate our skeleton as we act. We learn to move from the marrow of our bones, so to speak, into expressing ourselves into life.

• December 19, 2026: Paradigm Shifts: Pursuing Outcomes, Learning to Care for Yourself

  • Perhaps this should have been the first class on the first Saturday of the year. The paradigm of engaging in the world for gain, to improve our self, to gain attention, is a different paradigm from the world in which you learn to care for your own life and bring to life your most cherished sense of being and self.