Awareness Through Movement® Teacher Training, a 2.5-year Course

There is nothing I recommend more highly for people who seek to deepen their awareness and enrich their lives than a Feldenkrais training.

Throughout my life I have sought out different means of self-discovery and the development of awareness, not as a hobby but as my primary focus. As many of you know, I now teach meditation and have had a deep engagement with various branches of this ancient path for decades. I also teach martial arts after a lifetime of serious practice. From meditation and martial arts to academic philosophy and psychology, I have found many great teachers and a lot of wonderful experiences. Out of all of that education there is nothing I recommend more highly for people who seek to deepen their awareness and enrich their lives than a Feldenkrais training program.

The New England Awareness Through Movement Teacher Training, a 2.5-year program that I’m co-directing with two partners, will begin this June. Feldenkrais training programs provide the best opportunity available for deep immersion in Awareness Through Movement. We are holding this training in Brattleboro, Vermont, a great location in which to go deeply into ATM with easy access to the beauty of nature. We will be meeting in multiple segments of varying length (from three to about ten days each) for about ninety days total over a bit more than two years. This is a rare opportunity to become a Feldenkrais teacher or just to immerse yourself in the method for your own growth and benefit.

My partners are Elizabeth Beringer, who is one of the world’s most experienced Feldenkrais Trainers, and Sheri Cohen, a teacher with vast experience in many movement modalities, especially dance, who also brings decades of experience in the Feldenkrais Method. The three of us will be joined by a visiting faculty of great Feldenkrais teachers from around the world.

If you’re interested in this opportunity you can consult the Training’s website for details, and also check out the public pre-training events we’re holding to give people a chance to meet and learn from the co-directors before the training begins.

The start of the training is less than three months away, and we are still dealing with the effects of the pandemic. The first segment will be held online over three days via Zoom, a format that will make it easy for most people to participate. We are hoping to have the first in-person segment in mid August, depending on the pandemic.