Amsterdam International Feldenkrais® Training

For information about enrolling in the third Amsterdam International Feldenkrais Teacher training (AIFTT III), please click here or call 001 831 459 81 73 to contact the Mind in Motion office. In the Netherlands, you can also contact Caro van Iersel at 036 530 40 10.
Training News

News Update: 01 March 2009

The AIFTT III has a make-up program available to those trainee's already in the program as well as people still interested in applying to join the training late, through 4 September 2009. Please find our specific information about making up missed classes by clicking here. Local week long sessions are planned for June and August 2009.

News Update: 31 October 2008

There is still time to enroll in the AIFTT III and begin with the first segment on 17 November. We are accepting new trainees until the May segment, so if you are interested in finding out about how start after the first segment and how to make up for the missed time, please click here to contact the Mind in Motion office.

News Update: 27 October 2008

Today the Koninklijk Nederlands Gennotschap vor Fysiotherapie (the Dutch Royal Physical Therapy Association) accredited the AIFTT III as post-graduate training for general physical therapists and those specializing psychosomatic practice. The AIFTT received no less than 1,500 post-graduate points. Considering that a physical therapist needs to earn only 80 points every five years to maintain certification, this is a resounding recognition of the quality and depth of the training.

News Update: 17 October 2008

The training begins in just about one month. However, you still have time to apply for the remaining open spaces in the training. Please click here to contact our office immediately if you would like to apply for the program.

News Update: 02 October 2008

Read our second training bulletin. Responses to a few frequently asked questions, "What kind of program is the AIFTT?" and "How many hours is the training in total?"

News Update: 04 September 2008

Read our first training bulletin. We focus on how our training prepares you for a successful teaching career.

News Update: 15 August 2008

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News Update: 03 July 2008

The prospectus for our training is available to download in pdf format from the following link:

Amsterdam International Feldenkrais Teacher Training 3 - Prospectus.

This is version 2.1 dated 02 July 2008. Please ensure that you have the most up-to-date version!

News Update: 26 June 2008

The Amsterdam International Feldenkrais Teacher Training 3 received EuroTAB accreditation on June 25th 2008.

News Update: 19 June 2008

Enrollment is open for ON YOUR FEET (registration form link below) offered in Amsterdam on 06 September 2008. For those interested in our training program if you haven't already taken an introductory workshop, this is the last one before the training begins.Attending one of the introductory workshops is a mandatory part of the application procedure for the training program. Course details included in registration form.
ON YOUR FEET Introductory workshop registration form

News Update: 12 June 2008

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CLICK HERE to download a printable version of this flyer for the AIFTT3 training. (Size A4)

News Update: 24 April 2008

For those interested in our training program if you haven't already taken an introductory workshop, the next one is coming right up. Enrollment is open for the MARTIAL ARTS OF DAILY LIFE (registration form link below) offered in Amsterdam on 10 May 2008. Attending one of these workshops is a mandatory part of the application procedure for the training program. We may offer another presentation of ON YOUR FEET in Amsterdam in September, but the course details are currently not available.
MARTIAL ARTS OF DAILY LIFE registration form

News Update: 21 January 2008

The January AIFTT III Introductory workshops in Amsterdam and London BOTH SOLD OUT well in advance! Attendance was excellent and we recommend you to enroll as early as possible for the MARTIAL ARTS OF DAILY LIFE (registration form link below) offered in Amsterdam on 10 May 2008, as attendance at one of these workshops is a mandatory part of the application procedure for the training program. We may offer another presentation of ON YOUR FEET in Amsterdam in September, but the course details are currently not available.
Introductory Workshops registration form

News Update: 13 November 2007

We are pleased to be offering a third teacher training in Amsterdam. Spanning from November 2008 to May 2012, this accelerated three-and-a-half year program incorporates quarterly live learning with personalized guidance, individual homework, online learning and work in study groups to create an incremental, continuous learning process. Our innovative curriculum combines experiential and cognitive approaches, learning on your own and in groups, nurturing understanding and cultivating intuition, having support and being challenged. This proven program is for people who want to develop the observation skills, kinesthetic and tactile sensitivity, theoretical understanding and pedagogical proficiency necessary to become a Feldenkrais teacher.

The training meets Monday through Friday. We are in the process of applying for accreditation.Click here to see the faculty & program schedule.??Applications for this program are now being accepted. Besides completing an application and submitting letters of recommendation, applicants are required to attend an introductory workshop with the Educational Director, Larry Goldfarb. These workshops will be offered in Amsterdam on Sunday, 13 January 2008 and Saturday, 10 May 2008 as well as in London on Sunday, 20 January 2008.??AIFTT application ?Introductory Workshops registration form??For more information about the program please contact the MIM office:
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News Update: 17 March 2005

You can experience a live Awareness Through Movement lesson right now!
The links below will download a free MP3 recording of an Awareness Through Movement® lesson taught by Larry Goldfarb, CFT, Ph.D. This MP3 recording is an example of how easy it will be for the trainees in the NYFTT to access recorded training lessons, in lieu of having to purchase cassettes or CDs.

This recording is of the lesson known as "Rolling Fists." Larry originally taught this lesson at the soon-to-graduate Santa Cruz Feldenkrais Teacher Training. As indicated, each link represents a different size file of the same MP3 recording. We recommend that you have high-speed Internet access, as these files are rather large to attempt to download via a 56K dial-up connection.
Download MP3 Recording of "Rolling Fists" ATM Lesson (Size: 45 Mbytes @ 128 Kbps compression)??Download MP3 Recording of "Rolling Fists" ATM Lesson (Size: 22.5 Mbytes @ 64 Kbps compression)
Please note that you may freely use these recordings exclusively for personal, non-commercial, use. © 2005 Mind In Motion. All rights reserved.
Amsterdam Training News Update: 9 March 2005
Our last AIFTT Introductory Workshop is fast-approaching.
Made for Moving?Amn introduction to the method with Caro van Iersel, logistic coordinator of the AIFTT??Saturday, 2 April 2005, 10:00 to 17:00?Presented at Felix Meritis , Keizersgracht 324, 1016 EZ Amsterdam, in the center of Amsterdam?Tuition: € 55 or US $68
Human beings are exquisitely designed to move with ease and efficiency; however, we move only as well as we have learned to move.
Our education in movement is haphazard and, unfortunately, ability is attributed to natural talent or blamed on accident, injury, and illness. As time goes by, we become more aware of limitations, aches, constrictions, and the other consequences of how we move than of how we are actually moving. In this day-long Awareness Through Movement® workshop, participants use everyday movements as laboratories to uncover and realize their shared potential for flexibility, strength, and gracefulness.
Made for Moving aims to introduce basic Feldenkrais concepts, reveal how ingrained, unrecognized habits create restrictions, and develop our latent possibilities for effective, stress-free action. Together and on their own, participants explore ways of moving optimally, create strategies for self-care, and enhance the simple pleasures of everyday actions.
This public workshop, a special event in celebration of our upcoming second Amsterdam International Feldenkrais Teacher Training, is suitable for beginners, as well as those with prior experience in the Feldenkrais Method®.
An enrollment form for this is now available for downloading as an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file. The enrollment form gives detailed course descriptions for all of the introductory workshops, and is suitable for posting in your office or studio. ??To download this file, click on the link below. If you need the free program, Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the PDF file, you may obtain this software by following the Adobe link below in the 24 September 2004 news update.
Download PDF of AIFTT Introductory Workshops Enrollment Form
© 2004 Mind In Motion.

Amsterdam Training News Update: 25 September 2004

Our first AIFTT Introductory Workshop is fast-approaching.
Brain, Image & Movement?A two-day introduction to the method with Arlyn Zones, CFT, MA, co-educational director of the AIFTT??Saturday & Sunday, 9 & 10 October 2004, 10:00 to 17:00?Presented at de Kazerne, Van Ostadestraat 341, 1074 VV Amsterdam, in the district called the "Pijp"?Tuition: Saturday & Sunday, € 110 or US $135; may also be taken as Saturday only, € 55 or US $68
The relationship between real and imagined movement can reveal how much our movement limitations are in the brain rather than in the muscles or joints. By changing our skeletal image, we can bring about immediate muscular reorganization and begin to use the innate intelligence of the nervous system to dramatically improve movement and function.
This public workshop, a special event in celebration of our upcoming second Amsterdam International Feldenkrais Teacher Training, is suitable for beginners, as well as those with prior experience in the Feldenkrais Method®.
An enrollment form for this and all of the AIFTT Introductory Workshops is now available for downloading as an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file. The enrollment form gives detailed course descriptions for all of the introductory workshops, and is suitable for posting in your office or studio. ??To download this file, click on the link below. If you need the free program, Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the PDF file, you may obtain this software by following the Adobe link below in the 24 September 2004 news update.
Download PDF of AIFTT Introductory Workshops Enrollment Form
© 2004 Mind In Motion.

Amsterdam Training News Update: 24 September 2004

The prospectus and the application form for the AIFTT are now available for downloading as Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files. The thirty-page prospectus contains educational plan and administration details of the AIFTT.??To download these files, click on the links below. If you need the free program, Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the PDF files, you may obtain this software by following the Adobe link below.
Download PDF of Amsterdam International Feldenkrais Teacher Training Prospectus??Download PDF of AIFTT Application Form

A downloadable enrollment form for the Introductory Workshops, which are described on this page below, will be available within the next few days. We'll also forward a copy via e-mail of the workshop enrollment form to everyone who has previously contacted us to let us know they are interested in the AIFTT or the workshops.
© 2004 Mind In Motion.

Feldenkrais teachers observe people move, understand how they can move, and guide them to coordinated, comfortable action. Knowing the principles of human design—and understanding that what we already do interferes with doing things differently—teachers create the conditions for students to perceive innate abilities, learn new skills and recover lost ones. While many around the world maintain a private practice, other practitioners apply the method to dance, the martial arts, vocal and physical performance, rehabilitation and other endeavors in which how people move matters. Teachers have used the method in facilitating learning, preventing injury, enhancing athletic and artistic performance, reducing stress, developing dexterity and sensory acuity, promoting flexibility, and deepening pleasure in everyday life.
The second Amsterdam International Feldenkrais Teacher Training (AIFTT) will be accepting applications from individuals interested in this exciting, growing profession starting October 2004.
In eleven modules spread over an accelerated three-and-a-half year (May 2005 to September 2008) schedule, the training will teach the observation skills, kinesthetic and tactile sensitivity, theoretical understanding and pedagogical proficiency needed to start practicing the Feldenkrais Method®.
Segment Dates:
YEAR ONE
2-27 May 2005
5-16 September 2005
13-24 February 2006

YEAR TWO
1-26 May 2006
28 August-15 September 2006
12-23 February 2007

YEAR THREE
30 April-25 May 2007
20-31 August 2007
18-29 February 2008

YEAR FOUR
5-30 May 2008
25 August-12 September 2008



This schedule is subject to change due to the availability of faculty or sites.
Through intensive personal exploration, trainees will discover previously unrecognized possibilities for movement. In so doing, trainees will find out first-hand how limitations and physical trouble no longer need be the consequences of the ways they move. Lectures on the architecture of the human frame, the nature of its self-navigation and the interplay of movement, sensation and thought in that process will provide a systemic framework for understanding these individual experiences. Working with each other in small groups during and between sessions, the trainees will refine their perceptual abilities, develop their conceptual understanding and practice Feldenkrais ways of talking and touching. To ensure personal attention and individualized learning, there will be regular opportunities to work with members of the faculty independently and in small groups.
Arlyn Zones, MA, and Lawrence Wm. Goldfarb, Ph.D., co-direct this international training, their second Amsterdam training fully accredited by the European Feldenkrais Training Accreditation Board. Arlyn and Larry are known for their warm and personal teaching styles, as well as for their ability to communicate the classical aspects of the method through innovative approaches to learning.
The training site for the AIFTT is Felix Meritis, located at Keizersgracht 324.
The tuition is 425 Euros per week for the first sixteen weeks and 450 Euros per week for the second sixteen weeks. The total cost of the program is € 14000.
We mailed out the informational brochure for the AIFTT in September 2004. If you would like to receive a copy of the brochure, please contact the Mind In Motion office.
We are offering experiential introductions in Amsterdam to the AIFTT:
Brain, Image & Movement?A two-day introduction to the method with Arlyn Zones?Saturday & Sunday, 9 & 10 October 2004, 10:00 to 17:00??Made for Moving?With Larry Goldfarb or Caro van Iersel?This one-day workshop is offered on the following days:?Saturday, 8 January 2005, 13:00 to 18:30 (Taught by Larry)?Sunday, 27 February 2005, 10:00 to 17:00 (Taught by Caro)?Saturday, 2 April 2005, 10:00 to 17:00 (Taught by Caro)??Tuition for the introductory workshops is € 55 per day. To enroll, please contact the Mind In Motion office. You may download an enrollment form as an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file by clicking here.
Prior experience with Feldenkrais lessons and the ability to speak and understand English are the only prerequisites for application. Applications will be reviewed with an eye to creating an international training consisting of participants from diverse professional and educational backgrounds who are committed to learning the practice of the Feldenkrais Method of movement education and to furthering its effective application.
The complete program prospectus and application form will be available for viewing and downloading via links from this web page by Saturday, 25 September 2004. Please check back then for these documents. Or, if you would like Adobe Acrobat PDF files of these documents mailed directly to your own e-mail address, then please let us know by clicking here and leaving a message.
David Shannon
Office Administrator
Mind In Motion
PO Box 2778
Santa Cruz, CA
USA 95063

Phone: 001 831 459 81 73
Fax: 001 831 459 81 74

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