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A baby holding themselves up on their hands and a lizard with a curled tail face each other in front of a blue background as an illustration of online Feldenkrais Method lessons for The Roots of Uprightness
with Assistant Teachers 

Raz Ori & Anastasi Siotas

 

"After 50 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." ~DZB
 
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, 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 taught this ATM-oriented program, sharing the ways in which the foundations of well-organized adult movement emerge and unfold on the stomach.
 
This on-demand program features some of David's developmentally-rooted ATM lessons, and some profound lessons created by Dr. Feldenkrais. You will learn strategies for helping your students 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. For this program, he was assisted by Raz Ori and Anastasi Siotas

"I have never felt so totally at one with myself. It reminded me of a beautiful saying I read of Dr Feldenkrais,'in those moments when awareness succeeds in being at one with feelings, emotions, movements and thoughts, the carriage will speed down the right road." 

-Participant, Bell Hand Extended

Program includes:

  • Eight ATM lessons
  • Four discussions
  • One Q&A session
  • Three FI demos
  • Supplemental materials
  • Information to help you adapt the lessons to alternative positions 
  • Lifetime access to recordings
  • Option to download recordings

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Presenters

David Zemach-Bersin smiling in front of a colorful tapestry

About David

Feldenkrais Trainer David Zemach-Bersin met Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais in 1973 and studied with him in person for ten years in the U.S., Europe, and Israel. David also studied with Gaby Yaron and Yochanon Rywerant. He has maintained a private 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). David is a past President of FGNA. David directs and teaches in Feldenkrais professional training programs around the world. He has been teaching online since April 2020 and is the founder and director of Feldenkrais Access. He lives with his family in Farmington Valley, Connecticut.
Raz Ori smiles in front of a light blue background

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.

Anastasi Siotas smiles in front of lit greenery

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.