with Assistant Teachers
Raz Ori & Anastasi Siotas
"After fifty years studying the Feldenkrais Method, I propose that one of the most functionally effective and generative positions to work with--in both Awareness Through Movement and Functional Integration-- is prone, lying on the stomach."
~David Zemach-Bersin
As infants, it is essential that we spend time on our stomachs, exploring sensory-motor strategies that we have in common with our reptilian ancestors. This is a critical period in our development, a time in which many of our most essential abilities are learned and developed, including the orientation of our head and neck, directionality, eye coordination, anti-gravity functions, the synergistic coordination of the flexors and extensors, and the abilities that we will eventually assemble into crawling and walking.
Because working in the prone position can yield such extraordinary results and benefit almost every physical difficulty, David developed this ATM-oriented program for Feldenkrais Practitioners to share the ways in which the foundations of well-organized adult movement emerge and unfold on the stomach.
This program features some of David's own developmentally rooted ATM lessons and some profound lessons created by Dr. Feldenkrais. You will learn strategies for helping your students to restore their comfort in the prone position and regain access to long-forgotten neural patterns and critical upright anti-gravitational wisdom. David also addresses how these ideas can be translated into Functional Integration lessons.
9.5+ hour program includes:
- Eight Awareness Through Movement lessons (24-60 min length)
- Three Functional Integration demonstrations
- Five discussions
- One Question & Answer session
- Two articles
- Two supplemental ATM lessons
- Lifetime access to recordings
- Option to download recordings
Feldenkrais Access presented this workshop March 25-26, 2023.
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About David
Feldenkrais Trainer David Zemach-Bersin met Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais in 1973 and studied with him for ten years in the U.S., Europe, and Israel. David also studied extensively with Gaby Yaron and Yochanon Rywerant. He has maintained a Functional Integration practice since 1977 and is recognized for his contribution to strengthening Dr. Feldenkrais’s legacy. A graduate of UC Berkeley with post-graduate work in physiological psychology, David has created numerous audio and video programs and is the co-author of Relaxercise (HarperCollins). He is a past President of FGNA and co-directed the Feldenkrais Institute of New York and Feldenkrais Resources. David has directed and served as the Lead Teacher in sixteen Feldenkrais Professional Training Programs. He has been developing and teaching live-online and on-demand programs for Feldenkrais Teachers and the public online since 2020 as the Director of Feldenkrais Access. He lives with his family in the Farmington Valley of Connecticut.
About Raz
Feldenkrais Trainer Raz Ori has served on the educational staff of training programs in Tel-Aviv, New York, Germany, Italy, and South Korea, teaching with Ruty Bar, David Zemach-Bersin, and Lior Pessach. He graduated in 2001 from the Tel-Aviv Feldenkrais Professional Training Program and trained for two more years with Yochanan Rywerant, one of Dr. Feldenkrais’ first students. Raz runs The Ramat-Aviv Feldenkrais Center where he teaches ATM classes and gives FI lessons. Raz gained clinical experience working for 15 years at Clalit Integrative Medicine, part of Israel’s largest public health provider. He has also worked at the Sheba Medical Center with disabled war veterans suffering from chronic pain, phantom limb pain, PTSD, and head injuries. Raz is also a certified JKA practitioner working with special needs children. He teaches advanced trainings and conducts online mentoring groups. Raz lives in Tel-Aviv, with his wife and children.
About Anastasi
Feldenkrais Trainer Candidate Anastasi Siotas graduated from the Sydney III Feldenkrais Professional Training program in 1997. He subsequently moved to New York City and has maintained a private practice there ever since. His prior professional experience includes working as a researcher in Marine Cell Biology and also as a Modern Dancer, Choreographer, and Theater Director. He was the Director of Dance at the Theatre Department of the University of Melbourne, where he had previously studied and had been awarded Honors in Science, before completing Masters Degrees in both Education and Dance. Anastasi continued his studies in NYC with Irene Dowd in Kinesthetic Anatomy and at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute, where he now teaches Anatomy and Kinesiology for their Movement Analyst Certification program. In addition to his private practice in Manhattan, Anastasi works as an Assistant Trainer for Feldenkrais Professional Training Programs in New York and Internationally.
