Illuminating the Skeleton From Within
An In Person Advanced Feldenkrais Training with Jeff Haller
Four full days of advanced training with Feldenkrais trainer Jeff Haller
Wednesday May 21st - Saturday May 24th, 2025
*Optional fifth day Sunday May 25th, 2025
Wednesday 9:30am-4:30pm
Thursday 9:30am - 4:30pm
Friday 10:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday 9:30am - 4:30pm
Olivet Congregational Church - Fellowship Hall
1850 Iglehart Avenue
St Paul, MN 55104
$525 early bird if paid by March 31st
$575 after March 31st for FGNA members
$600 after March 31st non FGNA members
Open to 20 Feldenkrais® practitioners and graduates (including students in their 4th year of Feldenkrais training)
*An optional fifth day of training will be offered on Sunday, May 25th at 9:30am. This day will be for participants to receive an FI from Jeff. Jeff will give up to five FI’S at $200 per person. There will be a lottery to choose who will receive an FI from those interested. Those not receiving FI are welcome to observe the full day of five FI lessons + discussion for a suggested $50-$75. If you are chosen to receive an FI, your fee for the entire day is $200, including observation of the other FI lessons.
About the training:
Do we stand on the floor, or do we stand and find support up and through ourselves? Do you look from above and see the outside of yourself? Or do you look from within? What do you illuminate with your attention? As practitioners, how can we be more precise with our attention, acting from the inside out?
These are the kinds of questions we will engage with as we move our attention to a more internal sense. The lessons in this training will invoke a nice surprise for how you connect yourself into life and you can support your students to do the same.
Concepts will include understanding the value of our support from the ground up, organizing the central axis, and supporting a person’s head. For those who have not attended Jeff’s past advanced trainings in Minnesota, this material can stand on its own. Jeff is known for his ability to hold the space for everyone in the room. With his depth of knowledge, he has so much to offer everyone, no matter your current stage of learning and practicing.
“Illuminating! Jeff’s laser-like focus on using the support surface to generate action is an inspiring and direct connection to the martial arts ingredients of the Feldenkrais Method. Through his clarity I found potent new understandings about tonic adjustment, proportional tone, reversibility, and much more. Jeff’s personal work and passion to drill down to the essence of our most basic principles, embody them, and transmit them to others with kindness and maturity is profoundly inspiring.”
Parking and Public Transit: There is plenty of free on street parking around Olivet Congregational Church. If coming from the east or the west, the 21A bus route will drop off one block away.
Housing: If you are able to host an out-of-town practitioner or if you are coming from out of town and need a place to stay, please inform the organizer, Sarah Baumert.
Cancelation and Covid Policy: For medical emergencies and covid positive situations, full refund minus $50 will be granted. If you test positive for Covid and are requesting a refund, please send a photo of your test.
* Full refund minus $50 for cancellation prior to May 9th.
* 50% refund for cancellation after May 9th.
Jeff Haller studied directly with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, the founder of the Feldenkrais Method®. In 1983, Jeff graduated from his own professional training program in Amherst, Massachusetts.
From 1993 to the present day Jeff’s primary focus has been to train Feldenkrais Method teachers. In the following years, he developed and refined his skills, traveling and working in Feldenkrais training programs, while building an extensive private practice in his hometowns of Bend, Oregon and Seattle, Washington.