“…What I’m after isn’t flexible bodies, but flexible minds. What I’m after is to restore each person to their human dignity.” – Moshe Feldenkrais, D.Sc.
Training
NEW 2020 CANADIAN TRAINING ANNOUNCED!
We are delighted to announce the Kelowna (BC) Feldenkrais Training Program accredited by Feldenkrais Guild of North America will begin in June 2020.
Train for a career in a profession that helps both you and those you work with live more fully and be more resilient.
Becoming a practitioner can offer you a fulfilling rewarding career in a growing and cutting-edge profession.
Becoming a practitioner can offer you a fulfilling rewarding career in a growing and cutting-edge profession.
The program imparts the spirit of Dr. Feldenkrais’ curiosity, as well as a deep interest in how we function. Through a variety of experiences, the students will develop understanding of the essential issues of life and learn strategies to optimize their personal and professional growth.
With these ideas at the forefront of the training:
- Graduates of this program will be competent in all aspects of the Feldenkrais Method. They will act as ethical and professional members of the Feldenkrais and wider communities, and to be able to continue a lifetime of learning and development in the Feldenkrais Method.
- Graduates will be prepared to establish a practice in the Method and continue their learning independently on an ongoing basis and be able to act in a professional and ethical manner.
Who is the training for?
The program is open to professionals and non-professionals. Feldenkrais Method® Training Programmes are traditionally made up of people from all walks of life, representing a diversity of human experience, interests, backgrounds and professions. with ages from 18 to 82 years of age. This diversity enriches the training environment.
Participants are attracted to Feldenkrais trainings for a variety of reasons. Some join for professional development, to bring new perspectives to their work, to enhance skills they already possess, or to develop a new occupation and join a rewarding profession. For some, the option of being self-employed is particularly attractive. Other students join the program as a means for self-growth or healing, to improve their personal comfort and health, and deepen their understanding of The Feldenkrais Method. Whatever their reason for beginning, everyone progresses together, while learning at their own pace.
Participants are attracted to Feldenkrais trainings for a variety of reasons. Some join for professional development, to bring new perspectives to their work, to enhance skills they already possess, or to develop a new occupation and join a rewarding profession. For some, the option of being self-employed is particularly attractive. Other students join the program as a means for self-growth or healing, to improve their personal comfort and health, and deepen their understanding of The Feldenkrais Method. Whatever their reason for beginning, everyone progresses together, while learning at their own pace.
Train with us in Kelowna
The Kelowna Feldenkrais Teacher Training Program offers an extraordinary opportunity for both personal growth and professional development. Led by our superb Educational Director Julie Peck, the Kelowna FPTP will be a stimulating, experiential programme taught by a carefully chosen team with expertise in many fields including education, the arts, physiotherapy, psychology, human development and martial arts. Throughout, there will be an emphasis on the sensory-based learning on which the Method is founded and this will be supported by discussions, reading and projects. You will understand your personal learning techniques and how to develop your own and your clients’ capacity for learning. Our programme also contains an exciting on-line component to provide continuous learning opportunities, mentoring, self-assessment and staff support. As well we have a beautiful environment in Kelowna that will further enhance the learning environment.
“My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants.”
— Moshe Feldenkrais
Experience the Training
Learning is a fundamental ingredient in the Feldenkrais Method®. There is nothing quite like the feeling of understanding something that was unclear to us or something that was entirely out of our awareness. Those Ah Ha! moments that we have all had at some point in our lives have power because once we know something with our whole selves we can choose to act, feel and/or think differently. Feelings of confidence, joy and freedom often follow because this sort of power is built on a ground of stability and flexibility and cannot easily be lost or forgotten. The Feldenkrais Method® provides the means to know what to learn and how to learn it.
Continuing in the tradition started by Moshe Feldenkrais, the Kelowna Feldenkrais Professional Training will prepare you to be a competent and effective Feldenkrais practitioner. Participants will be offered extensive practical experience and in-depth understanding of the principles which underpin the Feldenkrais Method®: Awareness Through Movement® and Functional Integration®.
“One has to set about learning to learn …with serenity but without solemnity, with patient objectivity and without compulsive seriousness.”
– Moshe Feldenkrais
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Feldenkrais Professional Training Programs:
The Feldenkrais Method has helped tens of thousands of people. There are over 1,500 practitioners in North America alone, and certification programs are conducted worldwide.
For information on training programs worldwide, please contact The Feldenkrais Guild at 1-800-775-2118 or at www.feldenkrais.com