Anat Baniel MethodSM Professional Training Program
A Career Change and Life Changing Opportunity

• Are you looking for a career change?
• Would you like to provide your clients with highly effective back and neck pain relief?
• Are you looking to go beyond traditional PT therapy programs to transform the lives of children with special needs using innovative techniques based in movement, brain science, and physics?
• Would you like to earn units of MT, OT and PT continuing education?
• Are you a parent of a special needs child and would like acquire new and effective tools to help your child?
• Do you want to transform your own pain and limitation – physical, emotional, mental or spiritual – into wellbeing, vitality and magnificent possibilities beyond your expectations?
• Are you a Feldenkrais Practitioner? Would you like to enhance your knowledge in new, exciting and transformational ways?
• Are you a teacher or healer? Would you like to be on the cutting edge of your profession and learn unique and effective ways to elevate the capacity of your student’s brain to learn and change, no matter the circumstances?
• Are you a PT, OT, ST, or MT?  Would like to expand your work into cutting edge alternative medicine and reach new heights in your business and profession?
• Are you an MD? The ABM is an opportunity for you to expand your practice into a scientifically based alternative medicine field, and be on the cutting edge of treatment possibilities.
• Are you a Yoga, Pilates, Alexander, or physical fitness trainer?  Would you like to be an agent of change and excellence in your client’s life and help bring amazing breakthroughs on a consistent basis?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, the Anat Baniel Method training could very well be what you have been looking for.

The Anat Baniel Method 90 day basic training program (10 segments, each 9 days, over a period of 2+ years) is an intensive experiential and theoretical learning process. You will experience scores of transformational movement lessons – exercises - for back, neck, shoulder and other pain relief. The same exercises bring about lifetime fitness - physical, emotional, and mental. You will learn a very rich body of scientifically based, cutting edge theory and a highly sophisticated and rich repertoire of hands on techniques. You will receive individual hands-on sessions as part of your training. You will watch multitude of demonstrations that you will then get to practice. You will immerse yourself in a process where what was impossible for you before will become possible as you reach new levels of freedom in movement, feeling, thinking and awareness. Your own transformation and personal evolution are at the heart of the profound understanding and skill you will acquire and use to help others.

"Anat, you continue to bowl me over with your clarity, brilliance, and talent.  Your teaching is pristine; every minute of listening to you is in vivid color, a luscious nourishing of mind, body, and spirit. I love you a lot; respect your integrity and generosity of spirit. Your own growth through the years has been an inspiration to us all"
~Abbie Natenshon, Author, psychotherapist, Anat Baniel Method Practitioner, Anat Baniel Method for Children Practitioner, Feldenkrais Practitioner

Accessible:
Over the past 30 years Ms Baniel has been constantly challenging herself to find new ways to make the knowledge and the practice of first, the Feldenkrais Method, and now the ABM readily and easily accessible to future practitioners. Ms. Baniel is known for her ability to clearly articulate and demystify the theoretical basis of the work, yet never compromise on depth, accuracy, richness or complexity. She has found multiple ways of making the work understandable, fun, intriguing, inspiring, at times challenging and always transformational. You will work directly with Anat to learn the techniques that have led to her world-renowned reputation as a gifted teacher and healer. With an elegant balance of practical and theoretical learning, Anat Baniel provides a complex yet easy to understand experience. Each student is challenged to learn and transcend limitations in a supportive and empowering environment. In 90 training days, you will become a practitioner in a leading edge approach and be able to transform people’s lives for the better in remarkable ways.

Anat Baniel's training is efficient, transformational,
and the most effective training available.

"Part of Anat's genius is her ability to teach this extraordinary work to others"
~ Neil Sharp, MD, MA, ABM Practitioner

“I'm enjoying this training more than I can express. I continue to be moved and find your classes amazing. My life is already changing in ways I would never have expected. I can't wait for our next segment to begin! “
~ Barry Nordby, Computer Scientist, Trainee, ABM

Intensive:
This training is structured in clusters of 9 days, averaging 6 hours of teaching each day. Ms. Baniel is known for her clear, direct, intensive, empowering and inspiring teaching. She works with an exceptional team of Trainers, Assistant Trainers and Support Staff that insure that every trainee is attended to and supported during this process. Every moment in the training counts and is geared to make a difference in the trainee’s process. Ms Baniel has reduced her basic training days from 160 days to 90 days, bringing the participants to learn at the rate and intensity found in babies and children. Most adults, over the years, lose touch with their original capacity and vibrancy of learning. In this training everyone’s incredible capacity to learn and transform is awakened. The training is structured so all the core knowledge is delivered and absorbed in ten nine-day segments.

"To watch your being hold an image for where I am heading is a pleasure. I feel I am expanding into the fullness of my highest potential. You clearly articulate what I know as truth, and what I experienced when I first read Moshe's words 20 years ago. Thank you." 
~ Janeen Braun, Feldenkrais Practitioner, Anat Baniel Method for Children Practitioner

“Anat, your enthusiasm is infectious”
~ Robin, Body Centered Psychotherapist, ABM Trainee

Immediate use and application:
The trainees are encouraged to begin teaching what they have learned early on. The trainees are provided with teaching materials after each segment. Ms Baniel likens her approach to the process of learning a language; she helps her students gain access to this new language in a seemingly effortless way.  When you take the training you become immersed in a new world of possibilities. You learn at your own pace and at the same time you are encouraged to take risks and apply your newly acquired knowledge and skill as soon and as often as possible in your own life and with others.

“The training has made my work as an OT more effective. I am having fun at work.”
~ Loann Do, OT, ABM Practitioner

“This training has dramatically expanded my concept of what is humanly possible to achieve. To feel childlike wonder at my own abilities and to watch those moments happen for clients is a joy more wonderful than words can express.” 
~ Elyse Landesberg, Physical Therapist                                                                                                                                  

“I have loved every moment of the training. It has opened up a whole new universe for me.”
~ Sharon Tomsky, O.T., ABM Practitioner

Focus:
Each one of the 10 segments of the basic training focuses on one main subject matter and that subject is addressed theoretically, experientially and with hands on practice. For example, one segment will focus on the core relationship between the head and the pelvis and its relevance in a multitude of situations.  Another segment will focus on the functioning of a healthy spine and the importance of the spine in every area of life. The intense immersion process into the main subject of that segment is done through movement lessons; hands on lessons and demonstrations; theory from the Anat Baniel Method; theory from the Feldenkrais Method; theory from other fields relevant to that subject matter (eg, physics, biology, psychology, arts and more); Q&A; and group discussions. There are underlying themes that occur in each segment. Every segment builds on the previous ones so the learning becomes exponential.

The hands-on practice and group movement lessons introduced in each segment relate to the focus of the segment.  As students move through these segments they gain knowledge of how the nervous system functions to organize action and how specific core ideas in the method can be applied to a multitude of situations and conditions.

By the end of each 9 day segment, the trainees have mastered an area of knowledge and practice that will always be available to them.

“I am learning to look within and to not compare myself to others; I am learning to be gentle with myself; I have recognized some moments of creation and it has been a truly wondrous experience; I feel like someone has put an oil can up to my joints and lubricated them.  Stiffness is steadily leaving my body.  I feel great; I am making some great friends among fellow students and the assistants who I know will be in my flock for many years to come; I am excited about the future and not worried anymore; I am on a voyage of self discovery.  I am reveling in my new found knowledge and excited about the knowledge that is yet to come.”
~ John Robson, Software Engineer, ABM Practitioner.

Group Learning:
The class size is limited to promote building close relationships between the teaching faculty and participants and also among the participants. Most of the learning is done in a group context.  The variation amongst the students, each with their unique strengths and life experiences, contributes to the richness of the learning experience.  You will also build strong bonds and gain friendships and collegial relationships that will last well past your training. To support these relationships, the program offers ongoing opportunities to meet and communicate with your fellow students after graduation and certification.

Supervision:
Each student will have the opportunity to teach movement lessons to fellow students under careful supervision to facilitate learning and understanding of the Method.

Student Private Sessions:
As a part of the program each student will have one private hands-on session with a practitioner/assistant per session for a total of 10 sessions. Additional sessions will be available at a reduced cost during the training.

Teaching Materials:
You will be provided with written summaries or transcripts of Transformational Movement Lessons and Functional Synthesis hands on practice after each segment to provide easier assimilation of information between sessions and to use in your future practice. You will receive articles, reading suggestions and other materials to help continue the learning process between sessions, and help you be fully prepared for the next session.

Students have the option to organize and run during each segment, on a volunteer basis, a video lending library of materials taught in that segment. (The recording may be from prior training programs. In the event that the materials will be video-streamed on the internet, it will replace the on site lending library)

“It's been so amazing working with the DVDs. I just can't say enough. I never would have imagined I could grow so much just from the DVDs--so much is changing for me--and the physical stuff is fabulous but it pales in comparison to the emotional and behavioral changes.” 
~ Meta McDaniel, ABM Trainee

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"Part of Anat's genius is her ability to teach this extraordinary work to others"~ Neil Sharp, MD, MA,
       ABM Practitioner