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