Take your practice to the next level
Back in 1991, when I taught the three five-day modules of THE TRILOGY in Champaign, Illinois for the first time, my aim was simply to address the questions troubling many of the Feldenkrais teachers I had met:
How do we observe, understand, and harness human movement potential?
Why is Feldenkrais touch so transformative?
What makes some lessons so meaningful and memorable?
I had no idea that, nearly thirty years later, I would have taught 46 versions of this course in more than a dozen countries and helped 1,200+ colleagues cultivate their confidence, creativity, and competence.
This coming March 15th marks the first day of THE TRILOGY in Laguna Beach. This is the first time ever that I will teach this course in Southern California and it also may well be the last time I'm teaching it live and in person anywhere. (Starting 2020, the new version will blend live local learning with leading-edge online education.)
What better way to tell you about what can learn from this carefully balanced, innovatively incremental, and comprehensive course than to ask an experienced and successful SoCal Feldenkrais? Teacher to tell you what she learned from the program and how she benefited:
In a recent discussion about improving our FI? lessons, I suggested that we needed something more than taking one continuing education course after another. I also hinted that we might also need something other than learning more techniques.
What I needed was a way to organize all the information I had already acquired. THE TRILOGY offered me just that. The conceptual models I learned helped me to organize the proficiencies I had developed and the principles I’d previously learned. Understanding how all these pieces fit together made it possible for me to give rich, digestible lessons.
Long ago, just after graduating in 1996, I heard about a trainer, Larry Goldfarb, who was going to be offering a taste of his extensive advanced training in Los Angeles. I didn’t live in SoCal at the time, but I had already planned a trip there. How’s that for luck?
After Larry’s introduction, I enrolled without hesitation. Because what I learned then was so crucial to my professional development , looking back, this turned out to be one of the best career decisions I’ve ever made.
When I finished my training, Functional Integration? was like a mysterious and frustrating jigsaw puzzle that had only a few edge pieces and no picture on the box. I knew a lot of things, but I was missing a way to put the pieces together. And I didn’t really know how to put them to use to meet my client’s requests. Thanks to Larry’s atlas of maps, I realized the same puzzle pieces could be put together to form more than one configuration and that I needed to understand each configuration as a whole picture.
SPIFFER, the Bulls-eye, the 7 Cs, and the other models Larry introduced gave me the ability to better understand and best what I’d already learned. As the course went on, I came to understand what makes a lesson a lesson.
While Larry’s models are very specific, they were not confining or rigid. Quite the opposite actually. Once I started to understand these frameworks, I finally felt free to be creative with confidence. I no longer felt paralyzed. I had found the foundation that I was missing and had known for so long that I needed.
I left each segment with an improved ability to communicate what I was doing. I got better at talking about both what I notice and what I do with my students as well as with my colleagues. Being around Larry, witnessing how he created these courses helped me develop my own way of marketing the method. I got better at creating titles for classes, writing about the work, and putting classes together that reliably intrigue my students.
Attending hundreds of hours of postgraduate courses with a wide variety of senior trainers only reinforced how invaluable THE TRILOGY was. Though I learned new techniques, I didn’t just get more things to do with students. It was like finding the missing edge pieces of the puzzle and learning how to create the picture on the box. This program also gave me the tools to do understand and use I was being taught in other people’s advanced training.
Especially for Feldenkrais? teachers living in the Southern California area, THE TRILOGY in Laguna Beach is a precious opportunity not to be missed. Whether you are a newer practitioner or you’re having difficulty taking your practice to a professional level, you won’t be disappointed. I can also wholeheartedly say it’s a great chance for seasoned practitioners who find themselves falling back on habitual patterns and feeling unsatisfied, unhappy. Best of all, this is an opportunity to live locally while taking an incredibly useful and beautifully choreographed course offered at an easy pace distributed over two years.
Ellen Sevy, Santa Monica, CA
Take advantage of early registration!
Save $500 when you sign up by February 10, 2019.
Our affordable payment plan is available only until then, too.
THE TRILOGY’s comprehensive curriculum consists of eight consecutive, convenient Friday to Sunday weekend meetings. Each module is carefully constructed so that your learning builds easily, continuously, and progressively.
Bridging the Gap
15 to 17 March 2019
14 to 16 June 2019
Inside Touch
13 to 15 September 2019
17 to 19 January 2020
A Course of Change
24 to 26 April 2020
17 to 19 July 2020
Learning Beyond the Lesson
11 to 13 September 2020
08 to 10 January 2021
Fri 1:00 to 7:45 PM
Sat 1:00 to 7:45 PM
Sun 9:30 AM to 2:45 PM
NEW SCHOOL OF STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION
1027 North Coast Highway, 2nd floor
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
$2,997 early enrollment
Through midnight (Pacific time) 10 February 2019
You save $500 when you enroll now
$137/month convenient payment plan
(24 monthly payments for a total of $3,288)
This offer is only good until midnight (Pacific) 10 Feb 2019
$3,497 from 11 Feb 2019 onwards
Space is strictly limited to 18 participants.
Please register now to reserve your place.
Want to learn more about THE TRILOGY?
1) Join the live studio audience for SoCal Feldenkrais? Teacher Darcia Dexter’s upcoming interview with me about THE TRILOGY in Laguna Beach:
- The online webinar happens this coming Friday, 1 February at 10:00 AM Pacific time.
- Whether you will be able to attend or not, please sign up. That way you’ll be informed about how to access the recording of the interview in case you missed it (or you want to review it).
2) Check out Mind in Motion website by clicking here.