I am beginning a new Feldenkrais Professional Training in Marin County in Northern California. It will most likely be the last that I both organize and educationally direct. I plan to make it special. It seems to me that a Feldenkrais Training should demonstrate that know-how is inseparably connected to self-knowledge. While Moshe Feldenkrais always maintained that how an act is performed is more important than what is performed, I hold that who is acting is even more important. Knowing who we are in our role as practitioners leads directly to an increased ability to facilitate both learning and learning how to learn. Technical expertise, while essential, comes easily to those who understand the principles of the Feldenkrais Method and who have internalized the training on their own terms and who have fun doing it.  (read more)

The Training will be held in San Rafael in beautiful Northern California, 30 minutes from San Francisco and Berkeley, close to both hiking trails on Mount Tamalpais and pristine Pacific Ocean beaches. The Training site is tranquil, spacious and affords panoramic views of the surrounding countryside.

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The Training meets twice a year: five weeks each summer, to provide time for immersion in the learning process, and three weeks each January, to insure continuity. To shorten the overall training length and reduce travel expense, the fourth year will be an eight week summer segment. The training is 40 days a year for total of 160 days. Class hours are 1 pm to 6:30 pm Mondays through Thursdays and 9 am to 1 pm Fridays to permit a long weekend. Dates generally exclude weekends, although we are arranging supplemental workshops with guest speakers on topics such as internet marketing, and may change slightly depending on special events at the Unitarian Church training site.

There will be two 5-day elective intensives held between segments available in-person or via the internet, both live and archived.

FACULTY
As Educational Director, Dennis will be at the Training during all segments. Other Trainers and Training staff will include Elizabeth Beringer, Russell Delman, Lawrence Wm. Goldfarb, Arlyn Zones, Deborah Bowes, Mary Spire, Carol Kress, Kathy Pinkos-James, Gay Sweet Scott and Karen Zindars.

ACCREDITATION

The SemioPhysics Feldenkrais Training Program is fully accredited by the Feldenkrais Guild^® of North America. Graduates of the SemioPhysics Feldenkrais Training Program will be eligible to become certified teachers of the Feldenkrais Method. Diplomas will be honored worldwide.

ENDORSEMENTS

Dennis Leri is a brilliant and inspiring teacher. Studying the Feldenkrais Method with him is by far the most valuable thing I’ve ever done for my playing, my teaching and myself. ―Elisabeth Reed, musician, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, University of California at Berkeley.

During our Feldenkrais Method training with Dennis, we of course had many questions about everything. Dennis never offered a simplistic answer when the matter at hand wasn’t served by one―and this was often the case. But through the training I gradually came to understand that this approach is consonant with the practice of the Method itself. That is, Dennis used the Feldenkrais Method as a means for us to learn the Feldenkrais Method. For me this was a deeply engaging and satisfying way, one that started a process of learning that hasn’t ended yet. As can be the case with Feldenkrais lessons themselves, through my training with Dennis I answered questions I hadn’t even realized I had. In my experience, this is something rare to find.
― Tres Hofmeister, 6th dan aikido, GCFP.

Please Note:
1. In certain states, or countries, professional practice may be subject to licensing laws limiting their professional practice unless the graduate has (a) certain license(s).
2. Neither Awareness Through Movement^® nor Functional Integration^® may be practiced professionally until the person has graduated from an accredited training program. Interim authorization as an Awareness Through Movement teacher is a student teaching position, subject to completing all graduation requirements.