"This is some of the work that I’m most proud of; lessons that respond to our needs as Feldenkrais Teachers! I hope you’ll find that these lessons demonstrate and clarify, as well as add to your ATM library and FI repertoire.”
-David Zemach-Bersin
Awareness Through Movement® is an open and generative form. In this workshop, David Zemach-Bersin presents a selection of lessons that he created to demonstrate key ‘Feldenkraisian’ theoretical and functional ideas. Originally conceived for use in Training Programs and Advanced Trainings, the lessons range from gentle and internal, to dynamic and challenging.
To create an ATM lesson, we need to understand how the brain learns, how the musculature works, and how coherence and function attract the nervous system. In this workshop, you will see these understandings up close and in action. Six original Feldenkrais lessons are featured, with discussions of the lesson's origins, construction, function, purpose, and Functional Integration applications.
CURIOUS? Check out these recordings from the workshop!
Introductory Talk:
Why David began to create ATMs
Original ATM lesson: "Twisting with Complexity"
9.5+ hour program includes:
- Six Awareness Through Movement lessons (43-62 min length)
- Four discussions
- Two lectures
- Three Question & Answer sessions
- Lifetime access to recordings
- Option to download recordings
Feldenkrais Access presented this workshop February 27-28, 2021.
"I have been a practitioner since 1996. Since beginning to study with David, I feel that my real Feldenkrais education has begun. David provides a rich, rare living resource of authenticity for the entire body of the work of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais which he offers with clarity, compassion, and generosity."
-Angela Crowley
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About David
Feldenkrais Trainer David Zemach-Bersin met Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais in 1973 and studied with him for ten years in the U.S., Europe, and Israel. David also studied extensively with Gaby Yaron and Yochanon Rywerant. He has maintained a 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). He is a past President of FGNA and co-directed the Feldenkrais Institute of New York and Feldenkrais Resources. David has directed and served as the Lead Teacher in sixteen Feldenkrais Professional Training Programs. He has been developing and teaching live-online and on-demand programs for Feldenkrais Teachers and the public online since 2020 as the Director of Feldenkrais Access. He lives with his family in the Farmington Valley of Connecticut.
