Workshops & Seminars

Unless otherwise specified, all trainings are designed, developed and taught by Dr. Frank Wildman.

PUBLIC WORKSHOPS 2009

• The Evolution of Motion, Paris, France

• Change Your Age, Paris, France

• Intelligent Posture: The Feldenkrais Method,
  Eugene, Oregon

ADVANCED PRACTITIONER TRAINING 2009

• Your Brain as the Core of Strength and Stability
  Tiffany Center, Portland, Oregon

Topical seminars designed to meet the specific needs of your practice, clinic, hospital or group can be arranged. Click here for descriptions. If you are interested in hosting a workshop, please contact the Institute at 1-800-342-3424

FELDENKRAIS® MOVEMENT INSTITUTE proudly offers Feldenkrais Method® workshops and seminars focusing on a variety of dynamic topics. These classes are generally open to anyone interested in learning the Feldenkrais Method® and are designed to inspire as much they educate.

Physical therapists, massage therapists, dancers, musicians, singers, actors, athletes and trainers have discovered remarkable effectiveness through the Feldenkrais® workshops.

Learn through movement and touch to:

• Free yourself from unconscious movement habits that are painful and effortful.
• Develop the skills to move with dexterity, power and grace.
• Expand your knowledge of the human body with evolutionary anatomy.

Your Brain as the Core of Strength and Stability
Public workshops: Eugene, Oregon
Advanced Training: Portland, Oregon
Taught by Dr. Frank Wildman

Whether you participate in strength training, dance, Pilates, yoga or martial arts or you just want to move with more ease and stability, this workshop will teach you how to identify, feel and use the core muscles far beyond any movement modality in existence today. This training contains Awareness Through Movement® (ATM) lessons, and shows how they can be used hands-on. You can learn to affect the organization that underlies movements most people associate with great strength, flexibility, natural talents or hard to achieve abilities. You will learn ATM® strategies and techniques that can directly influence people involved in Yoga, Martial Arts, Dance, and Pilates.

DVDs of this program are available from our web store. Click here to order.

Intelligent Posture: The Feldenkrais Method
Taught by Dr. Frank Wildman

What does “good posture” mean to you?

Most of us think of it as sitting and standing straight, having “proper” alignment—a static concept. The Feldenkrais Method views posture as dynamic. With reduced muscular effort, internal resistance and altered breathing, this posture allows free, light and comfortable movement from one body state to another—it is efficient. Unnecessary effort often leads to reduced mobility, chronic pain, or overuse/repetitive stress symptoms.

Using Awareness Through Movement lessons, discussion
and demonstration, you will experience and evaluate your unique posture, and explore movements and concepts rooted in the Feldenkrais Method to improve the quality, ease and comfort of
your posture and subsequent actions.

• HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS—
  A Certificate of Attendance will be provided reflecting 11 contact hours.

• STUDENTS—
  Special rates available, please call for details!

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Change Your Age
Public Workshop in places around the world
Taught by Dr. Frank Wildman

In Dr. Wildman’s “Change Your Age” groundbreaking program, you will learn a series of simple, but powerful, exercises that will actually train the brain to send the correct signals to the body so it begins to move in healthier, stronger, more coordinated, and even graceful ways. Based on principles of childhood development applied to adults, this new “Change Your Age” program is flying through the USA, Europe and Asia.

The Evolution of Motion
Paris, France
Taught by Dr. Frank Wildman

...5 days to evolve with the Feldenkrais Method...

Our most personal capacities to move, feel and think are related to hidden evolutionary mechanisms. Through exploratory movement laboratories we will discover how human motion and human awareness arose together through both persistent environmental pressures and rapidly increasing choices in sexual selection. This five-day distillation is a synthesis of a program designed for Feldenkrais trainings as well as for audiences involved in the arts or sciences. Newcomers to the Feldenkrais method may find it an interesting introduction to the breadth and depth of the method. This program promises to make abstract ideas a very moving experience OPEN TO PUBLIC, TRAINEES, AND PRACTITIONERS

This workshop will be followed by a two-day "Change Your Age" workshop that is open to the public.

Language: all lessons will be in English, with French translation

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