Strategies for Learning

The Victoria II Feldenkrais® Teacher Training Program in the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education is structured as one integrated gestalt over four years in which trainees gradually acquire the knowledge of how movement and function are formed and organized. This knowledge, combined with highly trained and sensitive hands, forms the basis from which trainees can develop professional Feldenkrais practices.

Understanding Feldenkrais requires learning from the inside out how human beings learn. As a result, formal Feldenkrais training differs from academic education in that the trainee is involved in a continuous experiential movement process. Conceptual information is introduced while the student is engaged in a pertinent, associated movement process rather than presented as a number of independent courses.

For example, while learning to do a movement of early childhood, students receive lectures in developmental neurology that address the experiential aspects from a theoretical point of view.

Trainees participate in Awareness Through Movement® and Functional Integration® lessons, lectures, discussion, group process, and videos of Dr. Feldenkrais teaching, as well as seminars with visiting teachers. Eventually, students teach Awareness Through Movement and Functional Integration under supervision.