The Houston Feldenkrais® Training Program for Teacher/Practitioner Certification (accreditation pending)
Presented by the
Institute for the Study of Somatic Education (ISSE)
in partnership with the
Feldenkrais Center of
Houston
Paul Rubin and Julie Casson Rubin
Educational Directors and Lead Trainers
Deborah Bowes and Dennis Leri
Special Guest Trainers
MaryBeth D. Smith
Coordinator and Mentoring Practitioner
Beginning May, 2010 in Houston, TX
For more information, please email
training@houfeldenkrais.com
or
paulrubin@feldnet.com
Faculty and Staff Biographies
Paul Rubin and Julie Casson Rubin, Certified Feldenkrais Method Trainers and Practitioners, are the Educational Directors of Training Programs for Certification as Teacher of the Feldenkrais Method in Houston; Chicago; Basel, Switzerland; and Turin, Italy.
Paul R
ubin, Certified Feldenkrais Teacher and Certified Feldenkrais Trainer, founder and Executive Director of ISSE, has been lead Educational Director for nine Certification Trainings for Feldenkrais Teacher/Practitioners in Cincinnati, Chicago, San Francisco, Australia, Switzerland, and Italy.
Paul has taught as Guest Faculty in Feldenkrais Training programs in France, Germany, Australia, the U.K., and Italy.
As Chair of the North American Training Accreditation Board 1993-1997 and founding member of the Training Accreditation Boards for both Europe and Australia/South Pacific, Paul has contributed significantly to the evolution of training programs and procedures world wide.
Paul, a graduate of the 1975-77 Feldenkrais Professional Teacher Training in San Francisco, is one of only 80 people to have completed training entirely under Dr. Feldenkrais and to have received diploma from him. Additionally, Dr. Feldenkrais served as Chair of Paul’s PhD committee at the Humanistic Psychology institute 1975-1978.
Julie
Casson Rubin, Certified Feldenkrais Method Trainer and Certified Feldenkrais Teacher is co-Founder of FCME and co-Educational Director of all nine ISSE Teacher Training programs. As a highly sought after and frequent Guest Trainer in programs in North America and Europe, and as a former member of the North American Training Accreditation Board, Julie has contributed to the evolution of training models the world over and has collaborated with other leaders in the field.
Julie has pioneered the use of the Feldenkrais Method in medical settings through her work at the ground breaking University of California’s San Francisco General Hospital Behavioral Medicine Clinic 1978 – 1988.
As a graduate of the 1975-77 Feldenkrais Professional Teacher Training in San Francisco, Julie is also one of the few Teacher/Practitioners trained entirely by Dr. Feldenkrais and to have received diploma from him.
Julie holds a degree in dance and physical education from San Francisco State University.
Julie has recorded a popular introductory series of Awareness through Movement lessons: Moving with Ease and Grace. Email julie@feldnet.com for more information or to purchase this set.
Debora
h Bowes, P.T. and Certified Feldenkrais Teacher and Trainer brings the diversity of her long experience in related fields as well as from her strong and continuous private practice in San Francisco since 1987.
She has 30 years of experience teaching in private practice, schools, hospitals and clinics. Starting as a Physical Education teacher in 1973, she has always been intrigued by the relationship of learning, movement and self-image. She earned her Physical Therapy degree from Columbia University in 1975, and became a Feldenkrais Practitioner in 1987. Since 1994 she has taught in Feldenkrais training programs in the U.S., Germany and Australia. In 2000 she became a Certified Trainer of the Feldenkrais Method, the first Physical Therapist to do so. Deborah is known as innovator in the design of teaching modules for Feldenkrais Teacher Training programs and in applications of the Feldenkrais Method.
She is co-founder of the Feldenkrais Center for Movement Education in San Francisco, maintaining a full-time private practice working with adults and children. She co-developed the Delayed Recovery Center, a mind/body approach to pain and injury in the Occupational Health Clinic of Kaiser Permanente Medical Center. She’s a consultant to several pain programs and her CD Awareness Through Movement Program is used in them.
Her other relevant studies include Tai Chi Chuan, martial arts, yoga, Chinese medicine, sensory awareness, Middendorf breath work, and dancing.
She has recorded two Awareness through Movement CD sets Discover Easy Movement and Pain Relief and Pelvic Health and Awareness for Women and Men. Available at http://www.learningforhealth.com/
Dennis Leri, Certified Feldenkrais Teacher and trainer, has worldwide experience presenting the Feldenkrais Method in
training programs, seminars and workshops. He apprenticed with Dr. Feldenkrais at the Feldenkrais Institute in Tel-Aviv, Israel and has taught the Method for nearly 30 years. His accessible and challenging teaching style reflects training in Western and Eastern philosophy, psychology, martial arts and poetics.
He has published articles, translated into several languages, on the Method. Read them at http://semiophysics.com/SemioPhysics_articles_list.html
MaryBeth Smith, Certified Feldenkrais Teacher, is the Director of the Feldenkrais Center of Houston. She holds degrees in
Music from the University of Illinois and the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is a 2004 graduate of the ISSE Chicago Feldenkrais training program.
With over 20 years experience teaching in university, community, and business settings, MaryBeth now uses the Feldenkrais Method to help people create breakthroughs and fulfill their untapped potential. She maintains a full-time practice in Houston working with adults and children, specializing in the issues of performing artists, head injury, stroke, body dysmorphia, and stress management.
MaryBeth teaches at Houston's Jung Center and the Place. . .of wellness at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, presents classes and workshops in Houston and throughout the region, and writes extensively about human performance and the Feldenkrais Method.
She has recorded numerous Awareness Through Movement lessons, which are available for purchase and download online. She also invites you to read her blog, SomaQuest.
"We believe that only immersion training and consistent supervised practice can promote the depth of sensory learning needed to embody the education given in a FELDENKRAIS training which will graduate people ready to practice the Method as teacher/practitioners. We will take no shortcuts nor make compromises in the quality of education given." Julie Casson Rubin, Paul Rubin
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