Ebook: Acquiring the Feldenkrais Profession

From back cover: "Yochanan Rywerant (b. 1922) was one of the main assistants of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais. (Rywerant) ...has worked extensively as trainer in Professional Trainings in the USA, Canada, Europe and Israel. His book, "The Feldenkrais Method, Teaching by Handling" appeared in English in 1983, and has been translated into German, Spanish, Italian and Hebrew. While dealing with the way the Feldenkrais profession can be taught, this book has a threefold function. The trainers who teach the Feldenkrais Method in professional training programs might use it as a compendium for much of the material presented in such programs. They will benefit from the fact that the material is structured didactically and, in a sense, ready to be presented to the students. Furthermore, the hints for building a training program curriculum are a good tool for starting an endeavor, like a professional training program. Practitioners of the Feldenkrais Method might use the book as a reminder and refresher. They might want to look at their work didactically as well, perhaps by asking themselves: "How would I use this work for teaching, or for demonstration in a lecture?" The improved clarity that might emerge by dealing with that kind of question improves the efficiency of the practitioners' everyday work and hence, becomes more satisfying for both practitioner and client. The general reader interested in the Feldenkrais Method will find here not only a general overview of the Method, but also plenty of items, which, on the one hand, constitute an extensive definition of the Method, and on the other, by their mere structure and didactical processing, show how such a complex system as this Method can be taught efficiently.