Program Desc Feldenkrais Heritage

Overview of the MBS Academy Programs
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During many years of teaching the Feldenkrais® Method throughout the world, Mia has honed her unique method and approach to passing on her knowledge; we have used Mia’s program to prepare many students to successfully apply Moshe’s wonderful work.

The program we have developed builds on a central principle Moshe always employed: building with extreme care, taking small, logical, steps such as to provide time and opportunity for anyone to follow and succeed in growing both personally and professionally.

We are now launching this academic program worldwide in several chosen centers, designed to make it available to anyone and everyone who has ever been interested to improve themselves or others in and through the Feldenkrais Method. The program builds on previous knowledge as well as instilling new perspectives and abilities, and by offering several different paths for development, allows each one to fit in according to their unique background and future plans.

Here, in brief, are the paths offered. By clicking on the course name you will go to the page showing how it fits in the entire program:

Post-Graduate 3-Year Certification Program

Mia Segal studied and worked with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais starting in 1957 and for fifteen years was his only student-assistant. He shared with her his thoughts and ideas as he was developing his unique method. She was, as he wrote "my apprentice sculptor in human bodies".

As a child in this household, Leora was naturally integrated into the magical knowledge in the ‘Moshe Tradition’. This body of work, available only to them for so many years, they distilled and defined.

Now 50 years since the beginning of her work with Moshe, Mia will share a never-before-presented program with material that Moshe generously passed on to her, having had no chance to present.

It is now being offered to Feldenkrais practitioners and teachers, as a Postgraduate Certificate Program.

Make the Illusive Obvious explicit and usable:
•Soak up the hands-on experience with naturalness and simplicity.
•Feel confidence with simple knowing.
•Learn how to 'not diagnose & conclude' and allow what you see and feel to speak.

This is the secret essence - the true and authentic Feldenkrais Method.

Schedule: Over 3 years, 6 ten-day sessions will be offered on both the East and West coast. Upon successful completion, you will be awarded The Feldenkrais Postgraduate Certificate, signed by Mia Segal and Leora Gaster.
Session 1: Know Where You Are
* Know Where You Are, includes the first in a series of gradual approximations and expansion of skills around the following topics:
• Defining Movement Patterns – transferring to FI’s
Detect and follow underlying patterns, develop precise strategies for FI's, assembling a strategy for seeing, designing and carrying out FI’s.
• Variations in Touch
Expand your toolbox in qualities of touch, techniques, directions, nuances and your mastery of effects.
• Use patterns and learn from ATMs
Doing, observing and sorting ATM’s into patterns of essential movements. You will learn to identify pivotal points of an ATM, begin to model it apply it to other ATM’s along a logical path.
• Applied FIs in Sequentially Progressive Steps
Exploring sequences as defined above, explore a variety
of FI’ connected to a pattern and learn to build on it.
Develop a progressively deeper understanding of how the work is assembled, just as Dr. Feldenkrais showed it to us.

Registration is limited. There will be NO admissions after the first session.
NOTE: Each participant will be personally interviewed to determine suitability for completion of the program.

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS:

Professional Foundation Training provides a comprehensive overview and taste of the entire method. Integrating FI and ATM, every level builds solidly on the other, with personal care and guidance enhanced by a trained team

Post Graduate seminars Building on skills acquired during the Guild’s Basic Training this set of seminars focuses on Mia’s way of working: targeted instructions, observational skills and implementation of technique effectively and cleanly. A focus of skills on a professional level

Advanced Practitioner Training Specific practitioner skills, including advanced techniques, analysis of Mia’s choices of intervention, methods and ways of observing, communication and applying the best interventions for each client and group, in depth skill-practice in FI, ATM and practical applications of the most sophisticated Feldenkrais philosophies.
This Course is divided into three 10 day seminars:
Professional Skills Seminar,
Mentor Practitioner and
Master Practitioner

The Course Assistant Trainer seminar introduces the principles and specific ATM and FI choices behind the Professional Foundation program, providing an insight to the instructors’ point of view and depth of understanding of the material. There is an emphasis on perfecting the skills of ATM presentation and giving FI’s under thorough guidance and supervision.
*The seminar itself is the first part of the program, which includes the actual assitant-ship with mentoring and supervision during a Training

Team Coordinator is an internship, mentor-based program, in which Course Assistant Trainers can gain direct experience in the planning and internal course development from within the faculty community, taking on more responsibilities and going deeper into Mia’s and Leora’s approach to students with different backgrounds, talents and capabilities. The Team Coordinator is responsible for coaching the Course Assistant team ensures the smooth running of the seminar, care of special cases, and teaching sections of the curriculum.

FPT - From Practice to Teaching Designed for qualifying future trainers, in this most advanced course, the culmination of all the previous trainings, courses and seminars, we cover everything we know about teaching this work on all its levels: technique, practice, philosophy, group dynamics, communication, running successful trainings and courses. This program is focused firmly on how to PASS ON the purity, power and clarity of this work, as Moshe handed it to Mia and instilled it in Leora. This is the highest level course in the MBS Academy and requires a special application or invitation.

Specialized Professional Applications Specific applications, techniques and strategies of the work, applied to a range of professional fields (Performing Arts, Education, Elderly, Children, Sports, etc). These workshops focuse on the specific needs for practitioners and teachers who want to grow and excel in applying this work to their sphere on interest.

In all the above programs, students may choose to participate either as candidates for qualification or for their own experience, growth and pleasure.

Open Workshops are an introduction aimed at introduvcing the general public to the ‘Magic of Feldenkrais’. These workshops are conducted in various countries and states at a circulatory patterns, and are aimed at helping the entire Feldenkrais community by bringing this work to public light in different regions and cultures.