This promises to be a very unique and inspiring Training program encompassing Jeremy’s 40 years of experience in teaching, his extraordinary work and Approach to Special Needs Children and vast knowledge of the work of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais.
Quality – Clarity – Results
The JKA ABILITIES 1 Professional Training is taking place over a 3 year period. The Training program provides you with in-depth understanding, 4 comprehensive skill sets, know-how and confidence to work with:
- Adults in group lessons (JKA-ATM)
- Give private JKA-Functional Hands on sessions to adults
- Give Developmental JKA-Hands on sessions to Special Needs Children
“Moshe Feldenkrais said that the purpose of the brain is to make sense out of the nonsense, order out of the disorder. Jeremy has done this for development. After taking this training you will be much more skilled at evaluating movements to determine what is needed to progress and have the skills to make that happen.”
The Training is a combination of self- experiential learning, along with comprehensive clear knowledge and information of Jeremy’s unique approach to children and adults as well as unparalleled familiarity with all the classical works of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais.
You will gain vast comprehension, precise skills, strategies and techniques of the Jeremy Krauss Approach (JKA) and Feldenkrais!
The Training is intended for
- Parents
- Professionals
- People interested in personal growth and development
- Practitioners of experiential learning, self-development through movement and exercise
- Md’s and Nurses
- Graduates of the 1-year JKA Training program
“Jeremy is articulate, respectful, clear, stays on topic and clarifies as is needed. Jeremy guides me to notice a new perspective and how to accomplish what is important”
Length of the Training
Duration of training: September 2021 – December 2024 Total training hours: 820 The 3-year training has a total of 120 direct instruction training days, divided into 12 training segments of 10 days each with 6 instructional hours per day. This is a total of 720 hours of direct instruction. Online instruction amounts to 100 hours during the entire training period. The training consists of:- Direct instruction by Jeremy Krauss
- Direct instruction by outstanding guest instructors and assistant trainers
- Private JKA-Functional hands-on sessions by Assistants and experienced practitioners
- Supervision study of teaching of JKA-ATM and SAM
- Supervision study of teaching of JKA-Developmental Hands-on and Functional Hands on
- Online materials for study and review
- Online -zoom review sessions
“Awesome – Direct, Clear – No Drama”
Topics of study and skills learning in the JKA Professional Education and training program
The core of the JKA 3 year Abilities 1 Training is the study of the works of the Jeremy Krauss Approach along with the classical work, materials and ideas of Dr. Feldenkrais. When you graduate the JKA 3-year Abilities 1 Training you will have studied and gained comprehensive skill sets in four domains:
JKA – Sensory Active Movement lessons (SAM)
Detailed sequential JKA developmental movement processes.
JKA – Abilities Through Movement lessons (ATM)
Group movement lessons for classes with adults.
JKA – Developmental Hands-On (DHO)
Individual therapeutic learning sessions for children.
JKA – Functional Hands-On (FHO)
Individual therapeutic learning sessions for adults.
“The JKA Training bridges the gap between the Feldenkrais Teacher Training and the reality of working with children. The breadth and depth of the course is incomparable with other trainings I’ve taken, and would recommend it to anyone planning to work with children and adults. Jeremy’s teaching and work with children is always inspirational.”
The Jeremy Krauss Approach (JKA) Professional Training Program has expanded its amount of days, hours and its curriculum. This is to enable the Professional Training Program to develop and increase the repertoire of professional skills that are taught for professional use.
Along with the world renowned studies of the JKA for children, the Training Program has added into the curriculum skills and techniques for working with typical adults and children in both group work and private work using developmental and functional ideas.
The group work will be JKA-Abilities through Movement (JKA-ATM) and the private work JKA-Developmental and Functional Hands–On work (JKA- DHO and JKA-FHO) Both techniques being added are unique and are derivatives of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais’s work with developmental application that comes from Jeremy Krauss’s long years of teaching and experience of infant child development with its application to special needs children. This will now be applied to the work in groups and private individual sessions.
These additions will allow more professional skills and work with larger variety of populations, increase the base of knowledge, information, and also give more time and experience in clinical supervision as well expanding the student base of the Training Program.
Training dates
Segment 1: September 23 – October 4, 2021
Segment 2: February 21 – March 4, 2022
Segment 3: July 25 – August 5, 2022
Segment 4: October 26 – November 7, 2022
Segment 5: February 27 – March 10, 2023
Segment 6: June 12 – 23, 2023
Segment 7: September 11 – 22, 2023
Segment 8: December 12 – 21, 2023
Segment 9: March 4 – 15, 2024
Segment 10: June 3 – 14, 2024
Segment 11: September 16 – 27, 2024
Segment 12: December 2024 (the exact dates will be announced soon)
Segments are 10 days of Training with 2 days off.
Segment 1 + 2 online options
There is the possibility to do segment 1 + 2 of Year 1 in an online version. This is by application only or if international travel regulations still do not allow you to come to the EU from your country of origin due to covid 19.
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Class language
English
All staff members speak a variety of languages. Have a look at the bios of the individual staff to see what languages they speak.
Teaching Staff
Jeremy Krauss
Jeremy has been teaching and having a private practice for over 40 years.
He is the Founder and Director of a new and unique understanding and perspective of early movement development for working with Special Needs Children and adults in therapeutic learning situations – The Jeremy Krauss Approach (JKA). He has created an interdisciplinary training program to educate people in the JKA and teaches and presents JKA worldwide.
Jeremy has also been a Feldenkrais Educational Director for over 25 years.
Jeremy’s knowledge of the early development and classical Feldenkrais is unsurpassed. He is recognised worldwide as an excellent teacher for both his clarity as well as his creative abilities in presenting practical and theoretical aspects and in developing new and unique materials.
His specialty is his extraordinary ability in working with Special Needs Children with developmental challenges and disorders as well as teaching and presenting complex skills in developmental and Functional Hands-on.
Languages: English, Hebrew, German
Foto © Paul Harris p.harris@vonmagazine.com
Sabine Pfeffer
Feldenkrais Trainer
She studied the Feldenkrais method with Dr. Feldenkrais in Amherst (1983) and has been teaching Feldenkrais now for more than 25 years.
She studied mathematics and founded the Accord Mobile Center in Paris, where she and her mother Myriam Pfeffer carried out 15 training programs. She organized symposia and workshops on the relationship between the Feldenkrais Method and neuroscience, an aspect of the method that Sabine is very interested in. With these symposia, she brought together leading scientists in cognitive research, movement scientists, educators and Feldenkrais educators.
Today Sabine teaches the Feldenkrais method worldwide.
Languages: French, English, Hebrew
Stephanie Koch
Experienced JKA Therapist since 2013
Feldenkrais Assistant Trainer
Stephanie works in her practice at Tegernsee with the Feldenkrais method and the JKA with children and adults. Her offer is aimed at people who are interested in working on a physical and psychological level at the same time. She is the wife of Jeremy Krauss and has accompanied the method from the very beginning.
Languages: German, English, French, Italian
Sonia Pastrovicchio
Experienced JKA Therapist since 2015
Certified Feldenkrais Teacher since 2015
She works full time in her own practice in Turin and Milan. She also works with children with special needs in Rome and Eastern Europe. In addition to working with children with special needs, she works with adults using the Feldenkrais Method.
Languages: Italian, English, French
Additional Staff being added
Because of the increase in hours and days and material there will be more need of time used for supervision and clinical practice of the need skills added. For this there will also be assistants and experienced JKA Therapists and teachers joining the staff. They will help out and assist in the supervision aspects of the Training Program. All aspects related to oversight this will be organized and overseen completely by Jeremy Krauss All of these are graduates of the JKA Training and have followed advanced trainings with Jeremy Krauss preparing them to be able to on the teaching staff.Certificate
Upon completion of the program, participants will receive a Jeremy Krauss Approach (JKA) Practitioner and Therapist Certificate.
