Feldenkrais Advanced Training
with Jeff Haller in Kyoto,
Japan
from 11-15 April 2025
Now open for registration:
The power of self-organization
Self-organization is the foundation of our work as Feldenkrais practitioners. Better self-organization results in better Functional Integration® lessons. Yet it is not something we know rather, it is a practice, something that we train in again and again.
Moving with an equal distribution of muscular tone is a basic principle of the Feldenkrais Method®. When you are teaching, do your hands and fingers feel strain? Do you experience neck or back discomfort? Can you lift your client’s head or limbs without changing the tone in your arms? Through this Advanced Training, you will understand some of the basic principles and biomechanics that govern how efficient we are, and learn to understand your students’ experiences.
We will emphasize how to use ground force reactions with balance to achieve the greatest capacity to support ourselves, as a basis for working with our clients.
- Improve the quality of your touch;
- Give higher-quality Functional Integration lessons;
- Improve your comfort while working;
- Support yourself by knowing how to utilize ground force reactions to optimize skeletal organization and work with a proportional, equal distribution of tone;
- Improve your ability to listen to what your client communicates when you touch them.
Taught by Feldenkrais Trainer Jeff Haller
Jeff Haller, PhD, Feldenkrais Trainer, regards the Feldenkrais Method as a pathway to the inner composure necessary for living a creative life in a challenging world. He studied directly with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, the founder of the Feldenkrais Method. In 1983, Jeff graduated from his own professional training program in Amherst, MA. From 1984 to1991 his studio offered classes in Feldenkrais, Aikido, Yoga, Tai Chi and meditation. Since 1993, Jeff’s primary focus has been to train Feldenkrais Method teachers and sustain an extensive private practice in Bellevue, WA.
Open to Feldenkrais practitioners and 3rd/4th-year FPTP trainees, MBS and Child’Space practitioners. This Advanced Training is a prerequisite for the IOPS Academy (Ideal Organization & Profound Strength), Jeff Haller’s graduate-level program for Feldenkrais practitioners. Registrants to “The Power of Self-Organization” Advanced Training receive a discount to the IOPS Academy.
Fee includes:
- Downloadable recording of the course;
- Recording of the five-day Advanced Training, Learning Self-Organization Again and Again and Again…, a $299 value;
- Discount to the upcoming IOPS Academy
- 50% discount to one additional teaching day: an observation day (10.4.) of FI given by Jeff Haller* with space for questions and discussions from participants: $50 (normal price $100).
FI and FI observation
If you would like to receive an FI from Jeff (fee: $200), please let me know by December 10, 2024 with the note “FI Jeff Haller”. After December 10, five people will be selected by lottery.
If you would like to observe, please let me know with the note “Observation FI Jeff Haller” and add the observation fee of $50 to the course fee when paying.
If you are unable to attend the Advanced but would like to attend the observation day, we will be happy to register you on the waiting list and inform you about possible participation after 10.1.2025. The number of participants is limited and priority will be given to participants in the Advanced.
Dates
From 11 to 15 April 2025. We will train every day from 09:30 to 16:30, 5.5h per day with an hour for lunch and 2 15 minute breaks.
Fee
Fee: $975 if paid by 10.9.2024; $1,175 after.
Cost includes 10% nonrefundable deposit.
Cancellation Policy:20% after January 10 2025; 30% after February 10 2025; 50% after March 10 2025; after March 31 2025, please provide a substitute participant or full payment is required.
Method of payment
The possible payment methods will be sent to you by e-mail after registration.
Housing
It is possible to stay over night at the Wajun-Kaikan: western rooms as well as tatami rooms are available. As the places are limited, if you like to stay on the site I suggest to you to reserve as soon as possible. The HP of the site is available in Japanese, English and Korean https://www.wajun-kaikan.jp/en
As the venue is situated in the center of Kyoto, close to public transport, you can also stay at a different place of your choice.
Registration
«This training exceeded my expectations and was a real enhancement to my life and practice. I feel empowered and given tools that give me confidence in my teaching.»
Mady, Feldenkrais-Practitioner and Workshop participant