Functional Integration

As part of your training experience, you will receive at least three individual Functional Integration (FI) lessons each year from members of the staff and from invited practitioners. We will also invite experienced practitioners present to attend the training and offer supplementary lessons. Beyond that, you will be given opportunities to observe lessons given during class, lessons given to other students during non-class hours, and video tapes of Moshe Feldenkrais giving lessons.

We begin to teach touching and contact skills early in the program, emphasizing the development of basic sensing abilities such as "seeing and listening with your hands." You will refine your tactile and kinesthetic acuity in ATM lessons and in small group work. In the third year you will be giving supervised FIs to fellow trainees. In the third and fourth year you will also have the chance to practice FI with the teachers in one-on-one tutorials. Individual feedback will be given.

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