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HONING SELF-ORGANIZATION:
The Foundations of Skillful, Supported, Accurate Touch
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Advanced Training for Feldenkrais® Practitioners
with Jeff Haller, PhD
June 10–15, 2025
Seattle, WA, USA
Early registration deadline: May 15
Discounts for Feldenkrais First members.
Open to Feldenkrais practitioners and 3rd/4th-year FPTP trainees. This course can serve as a prerequisite for the upcoming IOPS Academy (Ideal Organization & Profound Strength), Jeff Haller's graduate-level program for Feldenkrais practitioners starting in August 2025.
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"This course saved me years of self-organizational bumbling along. Far from being prescriptive, it was chock-full of practical advice, clarifying ATMs® and guiding principles about gravity, directional force and skeletal structure. Now, on my stool, I have a much clearer sense of what to 'feel for,' and I am extremely grateful for that." —Wendy K., GCFP |
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In this Advanced Training, we'll investigate the inner workings of the Feldenkrais Method® and the biological principles that are foundational to the work. It specifically explores Moshe’s statement from the San Francisco training, in which he said he could lift a person’s head without changing the tone in his arms. We investigate principles of movement and self-organization that provide you with specific criteria and a practical path towards greater competency in the work.
Just as the steel in fine knife blades is tempered through a series of heating processes and then honed to develop a lasting durable edge, we learn to temper our skills and hone our own abilities.
Through this workshop, you will discover how to:
- Support yourself and work with proportional, equal distribution of tone;
- Improve your ability to listen to what your client communicates when you touch them;
- Improve the quality of your touch;
- Give higher quality Functional Integration® lessons;
- Improve your comfort while working;
- Take what you have learned in ATM on the floor into active upright movement.
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A world-renowned Feldenkrais Trainer, Jeff 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. Since 1993, Jeff’s primary focus has been to train Feldenkrais Method teachers; he has been the Educational Director of 10 trainings. He has taught around the world, while sustaining an extensive private practice in Bellevue, WA.
Jeff was a university-level basketball player at Oregon State University when he first encountered the Feldenkrais Method. He graduated from the Feldenkrais Professional Training Program in Amherst, MA, in 1983. From 1984–1991 his studio offered classes in Feldenkrais, Aikido, Yoga, Tai Chi and meditation. Jeff’s background includes an MA in Intercultural Education, a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology, and over 20 years of study in Aikido.
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