Curriculum & Format

 

The Rio de Janeiro program will be an intensive eight-month microcosm of the self-educative and transformative process that Moshe Feldenkrais underwent in his own life’s experiences. Accredited by the Feldenkrais Guild® of North America, this program will consist of 800 hours of training in 160 days (5 hours a day) divided in 8 segments a year of 20 days each, spread over a period of three and a half years.

The training will work on the integration of the muscular, skeletal, neurological and environmental aspects of the participants. It will facilitate the students to develop:

 

Knowledge:

• Fundamental notions of the evolution of movement

• Fundamental notions of child development
• Basic human anatomy
• Elements of neurosciences (perception, emotion, movement, developmental patterns etc)
• Relations between imagined and performed movements
• Elements of Systems Theory
• Pathologies related to somatic education

Personal skills:

• Sensory acuity
• Flexible and creative thinking
• Improvement of orientation
• Heightened intentionality and coordination
• Self-observation
• Observation of movement and attitudes
• Contact: intentional and perceptive touch
• Efficient use of self while working with others
• Self expression

Technical Skills:

• Set up appropriate conditions for the learning process.
• Communicate functional thinking verbally and non-verbally
• Take over the work of muscles and stimulate developmental patterns optimum functional tendencies.
• Teach Awareness through Movement being sensitive to the group as a whole and to each individuals needs.
• Create Functional Integration lessons in different orientations (lying, sitting, on the knees, standing, side lying, etc.)
• Professional ethics