TAB accredited
On the website IFF Member Organizations you can find a list of all IFF member organizations that offer Feldenkrais® professional training programs.
The IFF is a federation of Feldenkrais Guilds and Associations in 22 countries, along with the Training Accreditation Boards (TABs) on three continents and the Feldenkrais family. Its member organizations represent about 7,000 teachers and practitioners and 880 trainees.
Independent Feldenkrais Trainings
There are numerous Feldenkrais trainings not associated with Feldenkrais Guilds. They differ in various points such as time frame and costs, but most prominently in that graduation from these trainings DOES NOT give graduates the right to use any of FGNA’s trademarks, service marks, certification marks, logos, and trade names (such as Feldenkrais®, Feldenkrais Method®, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Teacher®, Awareness Through Movement®, ATM®, Functional Integration®, FI®, GCFT(CM), Feldenkrais Practitioner(CM), GCFP(CM), etc.) in any form, other than as part of the phrase “Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais.” There are special crossover policy for graduates from some of them (like Eli Wadler’s or early Mia Segal’s trainings) to join national associations of Feldenkrais teachers (guilds) as full member, in some countries such graduates can join as assosiate member without any special requerements (e.g. Switzerland or Belgium). In other countries national associations didn’t have any tradmarks (e.g. Germany). Most of graduates from this trainings in Europe join alternative proffesional assosiation Feldenkrais Network International.
Here’s a rather incomplete list of independent Feldenkrais trainings:
- Mia Segal’s MBS Academy (USA, Germany & Korea) [authorized by Moshe Feldenkrais to teach trainings on FM]
- Eli Wadler’s Feldenkrais Training Programs (Israel & Germany)
- Anat Baniel’s Neuromovement (USA)
- Jerry Karzen’s Feldenkrais Training Programs (China)
- Edith Sidler & Dierk Wichmann’s Feldenkrais Training Programs (Switzerland & Germany) [formal accreditation as trainers by Mia Segal]
- Elisabet Bloom’s Feldenkrais Training Programs (Sweden, Germany, Russia, Ukraine) [formal accreditation as trainer by Yochanan Rywerant]
- Moshe Zouler’s Movement Integration Training (Israel)
- Michal Ritter’s Organic Movement Training (Israel)
Sub-approaches
There are also many branches (and branches of branches) of the method created by the followers of Moshe Feldenkreis, here some of them (some branches take only a certain aspect of Moshe Feldenkreis’ work and develop in it, some simplify the method for certain applications, some combine with another approaches and methods, and others only superficially copy some of the techniques of the method):
- Ruthy Alon’s Movement Intelligence / Bones For Life (osteoporosis prevention and anti-aging)
- Thomas Hanna’s Hanna Somatic Education / Clinical Somatic Education (anti-aging and pain-free)
- Josef DellaGrotte’s Core Movement Integration (anti-aging and pain-free)
- Chava Shelhav’s Child’Space Method (babies and childrens)
- Ilana Rubenfeld’s Rubenfeld Synergy Method (body psychotherapy)
- Linda Tellington-Jones’s Tellington TTouch (working with animals)
- Michael Krugman’s Sounder Sleep System
- William S. Leigh’s Zentherapy (bodywork)
- Jeremy Kraus’s Jeremy Kraus Approach (babies and childrens)
- Shai Silberbush’s First-Step method (babies and childrens)
- Russell Delman’s Embodied Life (embodiment and presence)
- Harriet Goslins’s Cortical Field Reeducation
- Alon Talmi’s Talmi-method (M. Gruber) / Systemic and Integrative Kinesiology (N. Sommer) / Under the Oak (Y. Silver) (bodywork)
- Ilan Lev’s Ilan Lev Method (bodywork)
- Martin Bush’s SELBSTentwicklung [SELFdevelopment] (integration of FM and Ericksonian hypnotherapy)