• Introduction to the method.
• Evolution of the method.
• The most Accessible and understandable training available.
• Intensive program is 70 days shorter than other trainings.
• Each segment Focuses on a core subject.
• Learn One-On-One Functional Synthesis work from the very beginning.
• Practice Group Transformational Movement Lessons from the very beginning.
• Training Description for this leading edge program.

“This work is phenomenal - so many changes in so little time. The training
  takes off where my physical therapy training left off.” -Mary Susan Chen, PT, FELDENKRAIS(R) Practitioner

Anat Baniel with Students

Introduction
You will immerse yourself in a process where the impossible will continuously become possible as you reach new levels of freedom in movement, feeling, thinking and awareness. Students are taught the principals of motor learning and personal evolution through lecture, demonstrations, group movement lessons, individual hands-on sessions, and hands-on group training. Each student will be personally supervised in developing the skills needed to understand the method and utilize it to produce transformational changes in others.
You will experience first hand a personal evolution. These personal changes are a basis for the understanding of the theory and techniques.

Evolution
In September of 2000 Anat Baniel 
began a new and revolutionary 
approach to Professional Training 
in the form of her first 90-day trainings.  
Students in California and Chicago 
joined her in this groundbreaking 
adventure in the hope of experiencing 
a training that promised to deliver a 
new, more insightful, and efficient 
approach to the method developed 
65 years before by Moshe Feldenkrais.

Everyone would agree that knowledge 
is never static, that the nature of 
learning is by definition an evolutionary 
undertaking.  By its own nature, the 
method of Dr. Feldenkrais is based on the 
idea of continuous growth, change 
and evolution. But until Ms. Baniel 
opened her 90-day training, 
Dr. Feldenkrais’ method was still being 
taught under that same 160-day format 
he developed 30 years earlier. Amid 
much controversy, she decided to 
combine her 28 years experience, 
her intimate knowledge Dr.  
Feldenkrais' method and her own 
ideas and techniques honed over a 
lifetime of successful professional 
experience to found her own method.

"Since I graduated from the Amherst Training in 1983, I've taken workshops from many different trainers. As far as I am concerned, Anat sets the standard for workshops and trainings." -Jerry Wylie, FELDENKRAIS(R) Practitioner, Hanna Somatic Practitioner

Anat Baniel and Dr. Feldenkrais

When the training opened in September of 2000, we made a lot of assumptions and a lot of promises to support Ms. Baniel’s vision. Now after those pioneering students have graduated and continued to study with Ms. Baniel in her graduate program, we have seen her and their dream come to fruition. Her students have consistently achieved a level of professional skill and knowledge unique to them and paralleled only by highly experienced practitioners. In other words, IT WORKS! And now she is offering this opportunity again.
In this training program you will learn the full method developed by Dr. Feldenkrais as well as the Anat Baniel Method in a clear, accurate and accessible way.

Accessible
Over the past 24 years, Anat Baniel has trained thousands of practitioners from all over the world. In 
these trainings, she constantly challenges herself to find new ways to make the knowledge and the 
practice of these methods more readily and easily accessible to future practitioners. Ms. Baniel is 
known for her ability to clearly articulate and demystify the theoretical basis of the work, making it 
understandable while bringing in accuracy, richness and full depth. You will work directly with her 
to learn the techniques that have led to her world-renowned reputation as a gifted teacher and healer. 

With an elegant balance of practical and theoretical learning, Anat Baniel provides a complex yet easy 
to understand experience. Each student is challenged to learn and transcend limitations in a
supporting and empowering environment. 

In 90 training days, you will become a practitioner in a leading edge approach and 
be able to transform people’s lives for the better in remarkable ways.

Anat Baniel's training is the shortest, most transformational, 
and most effective training available. 

Intensive 
This training is structured in clusters of 9 days, averaging 6 hours of teaching each day. Ms. Baniel 
is known for her clear, direct, empowering and inspiring teaching. She works with a wonderful 
group of teachers and assistant teachers that insure that every trainee is attended to and is 
supported during this process. Anat has reduced her basic training days from 160 days to 90 days, 
bringing the participants to learn at the rate and intensity found in babies and children. Most adults, 
over the years, loose touch with their original capacity and vibrancy of learning. Rather than 
accommodate to a more sluggish learning process over an extended period of time, this training 
is structured so all the core knowledge is delivered and absorbed in ten nine-day segments. 

Ms. Baniel encourages her trainees to begin teaching what they have learned early on. She provides 
teaching materials to her trainees from the first segment and encourages her students to work with 
them. Anat likens her approach to the process of learning a language; she helps her 
students gain access to this new language in a seemingly effortless way.  You to become immersed 
in a new world of possibilities, learning at your own pace while encouraged to take risks, applying 
your skill as soon and as often as possible, and bringing the work to into many important parts of your life.

In the Anat Baniel Method Professional Training, you will be encouraged 
to begin applying your new skills and knowledge from the very first day. You will be 
given access to movement lessons and one-on-one techniques from the very beginning. 
You will have the tools to succeed every step of the way. 

Focus
Each one of the ten segment of the basic training focuses on one main subject matter. For example, 
one segment will focus on the relationship between the head and the pelvis and its relevance in a 
multitude of situations, while another segment will focus on the functioning of a healthy spine and 
the importance of the spine in every area of life. It is an intense immersion process into that subject 
delivered through movement lessons; hands on lessons and demonstrations; theory from the 
the work of Dr. Feldenkrais; theory from Anat Baniel; theory from other fields relevant to that subject 
matter (e.g. physics, biology, psychology, arts and more); Q&A; and group discussions. 

There are some underlying subjects that occur in each segment. Every segment builds on the 
previous ones so the learning becomes exponential. 

The hands-on practice and group movement lessons introduced in each segment relate to 
the focus of the segment.  As students move through these segments they gain knowledge of how the 
nervous system functions to organize action and how specific core ideas in the method lead to functional improvement. 

By the end of each 9 day segment, the trainees have mastered an area of knowledge and practice 
that will always be available to them.

Each segment is designed to introduce core ideas, practical techniques, and materials 
that you will immerse in and than take home with you and apply between segments.      
      
Functional Synthesis
The training program teaches students how to work with clients one-on-one in individualized hands-on sessions.
The individual sessions are customized to the client’s particular needs. Gentle and light movement techniques 
are used to help the client discover new, easier and more efficient ways to move that help eliminate pain, 
transcend limitations and reach higher levels of performance. The client also learns how to distinguish between 
a movement that is well performed and one that is poorly done. As a result the clients learn easy, effective action
in all walks of life, learn how to transcend limitations and how to prevent future injury. Sessions are conducted 
with the client fully clothed, sitting, standing or reclining on a specifically designed table.

Ms. Baniel is world renowned for her technique and success in aiding people with a variety of needs including 
her phenomenal work with children. 

Her program is designed to pass these techniques on to her students who benefit from her and her teaching 
staff’s years of private practice and experience. In the training you will begin learning hands-on work from the 
first session. You will discover your own talent and develop your own skills for helping others through Functional 
Synthesis. Trainees receive FS lessons during the training and are encouraged to begin practicing what they learn, 
in safe ways, immediately after each session. 

At the completion of the 90-day training, graduates are certified to practice Functional Synthesis.

Transformational Movement Lessons
This portion of the training consists of a wealth of group movement lessons that are verbally directed by Anat Baniel
or another teacher. The group will complete between one and three Transformational Movement Lessons every day 
of the training. The lessons take students through an elegant process of discovering new possibilities in every area of 
life, including movement, feeling, sensing, thinking, and emotion. Some lessons are simple, others complex. Each is 
designed to improve functioning as well as heighten self-perception and mental acuity. The lessons support the focus
of each segment, and are developed by Anat Baniel specifically to move students to their next level of freedom, skill 
and self discovery. By recapturing the freedom of childhood learning, you will learn to bring about miraculous changes 
in yourself and others. 

Benefits of Transformational Movement Lessons
   • Reduce or eliminate pain 
   • Prevent injury 
   • Enhance performance for athletes, musicians, actors, dancers     
   • Reduce symptoms associated with aging 
   • Improve and speed rehabilitation      
   • Transform the lives of children with special needs
   • Enhance vitality and well-being
   • Improve self-awareness and thinking
	
Transformational Movement Lessons are taught daily throughout the training. Trainees are invited to learn 
at their own pace in a non-competitive environment understanding that different lessons will speak to 
different individual needs.

Trainees are encouraged to begin teaching the Transformational Movement Lessons 
either to clients or to friends and relatives as they learn them, from early on in the training.  

Training Description

Group Learning
Ms. Baniel limits the number of students accepted to the program so that you will experience the training 
in a more intimate environment. The size promotes building close relationships between the teaching 
faculty and participants and also among the participants. You will build strong bonds; friends and colleagues
who will last well past your training. To support this relationship, the program offers ongoing opportunities 
to meet and communicate with your fellow students after graduation and certification.

Supervision 
Each student will have the opportunity to teach movement lessons to fellow students under careful 
supervision to facilitate learning and understanding of the Method.

Student Private Sessions
As a part of the program each student will have one private hands-on session with a practitioner/assistant 
per session for a total of 10 sessions. Additional sessions will be available at a reduced cost during the training.

Teaching Materials
You will be provided with written summaries or transcripts of the Transformational Movement Lessons after 
each segment to provide easier assimilation of information between sessions and to use in your future practice. 
During the training session, audio recording of lectures and movement lessons from each day are available    
from our lending library as another means to enhance your learning and help students with makeup lessons. 
In addition you will receive articles, reading suggestions and other materials to help continue the learning 
process between sessions, and help you be fully prepared for the next session.

Career Opportunities:
Alternative health care is a dynamic and growing field. Educational approaches and life style changes as a 
means of enhancing health and overcoming trouble is gaining ground rapidly. An aging population combined 
with the public’s continued interest in and acceptance of alternative approaches to overcoming injuries, illness 
and limitations offers practitioners greater opportunities than ever before to open new practices and expand 
existing ones. If you are seeking a new career path the Anat Baniel Method Professional Training
offers you an opportunity to help others as well as transforming your own life. Certification in the Anat Baniel 
Method, also allows you to add to your professional skills as a Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, 
Message Therapist, Speech Therapist, Psychotherapist, Bodywork, and highlight the breath of your abilities 
in the ever increasingly competitive world. This is only a limited example of the list of professionals who have 
experienced and benefited from the training program. 
Voice Teachers, Speech Therapists, Sports Therapists, Musicians, Vocalists, Gerontologists and a variety of others 
have all recognized the opportunities offered by the program. Past graduates have applied their skills in a variety of 
ways. Some have chosen to develop programs for communities or concentrate on specific areas such as sports training 
or age related issues. Others focus on private practice helping children or helping the growing numbers of those 
with back, neck or chronic pain. The possibilities for application of these method are limitless since they 
powerfully address some of the most basic human needs: to learn effectively throughout life; to move freely; 
to grow; to fulfill one’s dreams through action.    

Graduation Requirements
All participants will be given ongoing feedback on their progress throughout the program.  Successful completion 
of the program is dependent on positive reviews for each session and the student’s ability to learn, perform and 
teach both movement lessons and individual sessions.  All students must attend each session and make up work 
missed to the instructor’s satisfaction.

Certification
The 90-day training program is 10 sessions of 9 days each over a 26-month period for a total of 540 training hours. 
Upon successful competition of these 540 hours you will:
1. Complete the requirements for certification by Anat Baniel in the ANAT BANIEL METHOD(sm) which allows you to 
    teach Transformational Movement group lessons and Functional Synthesis individual lessons.
2. Graduation from the 90 day basic program entitles you to continue with the Anat Baniel Method Mastery Programs(sm) 
    and be certified by Anat Baniel a MASTER PRACTITIONER in:
    Anat Baniel Method for Children(sm) Mastery program: 
    Three nine-day segments, a total of 162 training hours.
    Upon successful graduation, you will be certified as an Anat Baniel Method for Children Practitioner 
    Anat Baniel Method for Anti-Aging and Vitality(sm) Mastery program: 
    Two nine day segments, a total of 108 training hours. 
    Upon successful graduation, you will be certified as an Anat Baniel Method for Vitality and Anti-Aging Practitioner.
    Anat Baniel Method for High Performers(sm) Mastery program: 
    One nine day segment, a total of 54 training hours. 
    Upon successful graduation, you will be certified as an Anat Baniel Method for High Performers Practitioner.

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