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Curriculum and Format 

The Porto Alegre training 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

  • ake 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

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