The Tokyo II training will prepare you to be a competent and skillful practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method, including the practice of ATM and FI.  You will learn how to  effectively communicate about the Feldenkrais Method, discover how to bring a sense of curiosity and engagement to your continuing exploration of the Method and to your life, and to understand the deeper relevance of the work to the development of the entire human being.

Self-knowledge through awareness is the goal of reeducation. As we become aware of what we are doing in fact, and not what we say or think we are doing, the way to improvement is wide open to us.  Moshe Feldenkrais

The training is an intensive and potentially transformative process, which will involve your entire self.  You will be engaged in a experiential learning process using a variety of methodologies and strategies, including :

Awareness Through Movement® Classes

Awareness Through Movement lessons are precisely structured movement explorations that involve thinking, sensing, moving, and imagining. Many are based on developmental movements and ordinary functional activities. Some are based on more abstract explorations of joint, muscle, and postural relationships. The lessons consist of comfortable, easy movements that gradually evolve into movements of greater range and complexity.
Much of your learning will come from experiencing Awareness Through Movement lessons every day- by the end of your training you will have participated in literally hundreds of lessons.  These lessons will help you to become aware of your habitual neuromuscular patterns and teach you how to expand your options for new ways of moving while increasing your sensitivity and improving your efficiency.  A major goal of Awareness Through Movement is to learn how our most basic functions are organized. By experiencing the details of how you perform any action, you can to learn how to attend to your whole self, eliminate unnecessary energy expenditure, mobilize your intentions into actions, and most importantly, learn how to learn.
You will also be developing the skills necessary to teach Awareness Through Movement lessons, which you will be authorized to do at the end of the second year of the training.

The point of my work is to lead to awareness in action, or the ability to make contact with one’s own skeleton and muscles and with the environment practically simultaneously. Moshe Feldenkrais

Functional Integration® Lessons

Functional Integration is a hands-on form of tactile, kinesthetic communication. The Feldenkrais practitioner communicates to the student how he/she organizes his/her body and uses gentle touching and movement to help him/her learn how to move in more expanded functional motor patterns. The learning process is carried out without the use of any invasive or forceful procedure. The practitioner develops a lesson for the student, custom-tailored to the unique configuration of that particular person, at that particular moment. Through rapport and respect for the student’s abilities, qualities, and integrity, the practitioner creates an environment in which the student can learn comfortably how to reorganize both body and behavior in new and more effective ways.
You will be engaged in learning Functional Integration from the very beginning of the training, beginning with hands-on explorations where the emphasis is on nurturing an exploratory attitude, developing listening skills and tactile sensitivity, presence, self-organization, and skeletal contact . You will refine your hands-on and technical skills in a variety of settings: from demonstrations and clear, structured learning practices to problem-solving exercises, meant to encourage creativity, exploration and active learning skills. There will be faculty supervision throughout, with  individualized attention and guidance, leading to developing the ability to compose skilful and effective FI lessons by the end of the fourth year.
You will be receiving FI lessons from the trainers and assistants throughout your training, and watching other students receiving lessons.  Videos of Moshe Feldenkrais giving lessons will be shown and discussed. Additional FIs will be available from the educational team and practitioners from the community.

I believe that the unity of mind and body is an objective reality. They are not just parts somehow related to each other, but an inseparable whole while functioning. Moshe Feldenkrais

Lectures, demonstrations, guided and more free-form explorations, experience sharing opportunities, question and answer sessions, faculty supervision, study group projects and between-segment assignments will be used throughout the training.  We will utilize many small group structures—from interactive discussions, explorations and problem solving exercises to small group supervisions. As you interact with the other students you will be developing collegial relationships which will serve you throughout the training, and once you are practitioners.
You will have many opportunities to present the Method verbally and experientially in order to be able to articulate the ideas and theory of the method, to speak engagingly about the method and to increase your confidence and competence in presenting the method to the public.
The educational and administrative directors will be available to the students throughout the entire training process, including between segments.  We will help you organize study groups to continue your learning and develop a learning community with the other students between segments.

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