Graduate Mastery Programs

The graduate mastery programs are offered to graduates of Ms. Baniel’s 90-day basic 
program and to Feldenkrais practitioners. These intense training sessions provide a 
unique opportunity for the practitioner to specialize working with specific populations 
and the specific needs they have, and to continue advancing the practitioner’s knowledge 
and skills after beginning to practice.

In these graduate programs participants continue to engage, as they did in the 90-day 
basic training, in an intense experiential process that now is related to an area of 
specialization. Also in relation to the area of specialization the trainees learn advanced 
theory, hands-on techniques, communication skills, observational skills, setting long term 
goals for clients and creating a successful long term transformational process for clients. 

In every segment of the Children Mastery Program there is a clinic. Each participant gives 
at least two lessons to babies and children with special needs. This is done in a supportive, 
friendly, and very safe environment. Ms. Baniel and Ms. Lindheimer oversee the process 
and facilitate whenever necessary or requested by the trainee. When not actually giving a 
lesson, the participant gets to watch and learn from this rich variety of lessons and interventions. 

In the Vitality and Anti-Aging Mastery program we provide a clinic with adults. 

These clinics have been successful well beyond our expectations. The children and adults 
improved remarkably. The participants acquired mastery and familiarity in their work with 
children and anti-aging.
 
As with the 90-day basic training, every participant continues to experience powerful 
personal transformation and growth. 

The Graduate Program Allows Students to:
     
• Specialize in working with three specific groups: 
   special needs children, vitality and anti-aging, and high performers
• Use training time other programs use to complete basic training for 
   graduate specialization
• Continue with the training process and receive support and guidance 
   every two and a half months, while already practicing
• Use training to join the Anat Baniel Practitioner Team and be certified
   in the Anat Baniel Method for Children; Anat Baniel Method for Vitality 
   and Anti-Aging, and Anat Baniel Method for High Performers.
• Be listed on the Anat Baniel Method web site as specializing in those areas.

The three areas of study: working with children, vitality and anti-aging, and high performers 
are areas of great need. This method offers tremendous value and opportunity to all three 
populations. Courses are offered in sequence, each segment taking place approximately 
every two and a half months, with each learning experience building on the previous level. 
Ms. Baniel teaches the Mastery Programs assisted by practitioners of her method who are 
also trained to teach in these programs.

Level 1: Working with Children
In March of 2003, Anat Baniel chartered a new course in training practitioners to 
work with special needs children. Over 50 practitioners, both graduates from her 
first 90-day training program and Feldenkrais practitioners, learned to affect the 
lives of severely limited children in the 3-segment, 27-day mastery training.

This Level 1 Training is predicated on the fact that large numbers of children 
encounter disturbances in the developmental process ranging from mild to severe.      
These difficulties manifest in their movement, thought, feeling, intention and action.

The ANAT BANIEL METHOD(sm)FOR CHILDREN offers a unique approach that utilizes      
her unique understanding of movement and mind, specifically as applied to children, 
to bring about the spontaneous learning and growth that occurs for healthy children.

You will learn how to work with a 5 month old, 12 month old, two year old, or a 10 
year old with difficulties ranging from cerebral palsy, genetic disorders, brachial 
plexus, autism, stroke, undiagnosed conditions and more. Each 9-day segment 
focuses on one age group starting with the youngest.

You will quickly acquire skills to effect immediate positive change for these children 
so that they will be able to move, think and feel in ways which were previously 
unattainable. Already during the clinic, children were transformed in astounding ways. 
Picture 6 tables, 6 practitioners and 6 babies all between 6 to 20 months old, all being 
worked with simultaneously in the first Practicum of its kind. It was phenomenal and with 
amazing outcomes for each child.

You will also learn how to facilitate on going transformation for the child over time. 
The knowledge and skills you acquire for your work with these children will 
significantly improve your knowledge, skills and outcomes working with adults.

Level 2: Working with the Aging
The aging represent a larger percentage of the population than ever. Today’s baby boomers 
expect to continue their active lifestyle even with encroaching age and present seniors also 
want to improve their situations. Level II gives you the opportunity to learn how to help your 
all your adult clients increase and maintain mobility and vitality; reduce pain and limitation; 
and greatly improve quality of life. In these two nine day sessions you will learn how to gently 
and safely reverse many of the limitations acquired over time and offer a new exciting future 
to the aging individual.

Level 3: Working with High Performers
Professionals in sports, music, and performance art offer a different set of challenges for the 
practitioner. In this nine-day session you will learn to make a significant difference in three 
primary areas of need.
1. When a performer is impaired due to 
    their way of executing their expertise.
2. When the individual feels they have hit 
    a plateau of performance and can’t progress.
3. When they are performing well but continue 
    to seek new possibilities of expression and action.
4. Learn how to help the high performer deal with 
    the extra stress that is built into being a high performer.

These high performance issues require additional knowledge, skills and expertise. 
The Level Three session is designed to answer these challenges and prepare you 
to move yourself and your clients to a more advanced level.

These three levels will be offered after the completion of the 90-day program.      
Each segment builds on the knowledge acquired in the previous level 
and will enable you to expand your knowledge of the work, to have a 
continuous and systematic learning experience and reach new levels 
of mastery and personal satisfaction.