In these unsettling times of the Covid 19 pandemic and sheltering at home, Mind in Motion is offering you and other Feldenkrais® teachers and trainees the opportunity to participate in A TRAINING SEGMENT ONLINE (ATSO).

This is a chance for you to experience two full weeks (plus a day) of training, to share that with a group of thoughtful colleagues, all without having to leave home. What better way to discover what you might have missed, expand your skills, find inspiration, deepen your ATM practice, become a better movement detective, and continue to develop your teaching ability?

We’ll use the recordings from the sixth segment of the recently graduated fifth Amsterdam International Feldenkrais Teacher Training (AIFTT V) as the core material. (AIFTT V met four times a year for two or more weeks at a time.) The eleven-day sixth segment is when the trainees start becoming Functional Integrators and when they’re already well on their way to learning what it means to be ATM® teachers.

Before walking and running, before cruising and crawling, infants find their way from moving their limbs and heads around — staying on the back or belly the whole time —  to moving from where they are to someplace else.

This is no easy task.

As infants, our heads weigh as much as a third of our total weight; our limbs are relatively small and weak. Our size and proportions keep changing, in uneven spurts, disorienting and confounding our unfolding apprenticeship with gravity. We each discover the first rudimentary forms of locomotion in our own individual ways. There is no one developmental pathway through these early challenges, no necessary step, magical milestone, or preordained progression. The theme of the ATM series is this developmental transition from moving around yourself to moving yourself around, an apt somatic metaphor for the trainees’ transition from learning the method to becoming the educator.