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Bones for Life® Teacher Training
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Bones for Life develops flexibility and vitality, boosts bone and muscle strength, improves posture, balance and walking through movement processes and self-touch strategies.
The Bones for Life Online Training is composed of 3 segments plus the Teacher Didactic/Practicum material that is integrated throughout the segments. Each segment is 15 weeks of 2 hours each class session to equal 30 hours. The Teacher Didactic/Practicum is a total of 30 hours.
Are you ready to dive into the Bones for Life training?
Please contact Anna if you are interested in a future training. Scroll down this page or click on Read more... for certification details.
You can take this program for personal self-care - you do not have to take it exclusively to become a teacher.
Bones for Life is under the umbrella of the Movement Intelligence program created by Ruthy Alon, Senior Feldenkrais® Trainer.
The Bones for Life training is appropriate for anyone wishing to enhance their own bone health, and for healthcare professionals wishing to include Bones for Life concepts and processes into their personal and professional practice, and classes.
Small class size ensures lots of personal attention. Learn this valuable program from the comfort of your own home or office. The training is done on Zoom video conferencing - stay safe! you don't have to travel or pay for accommodation!
Your bones are as reliable as your posture is able to sustain your body weight in an efficient alignment.
Your bones are as strong as your activity is dynamic and able to cope with challenges that demand strength.
Your bones are as healthy as Nature meant, when your movements are natural and all your parts of yourself are harmoniously coordinated.
In Bones for Life you learn practical movements, including weight-bearing activities, that will help you organize your actions and improve your posture that stimulates bone growth cells, called osteoblasts.
Bones for Life also helps you maintain better coordination and balance.
When you upgrade your movement skills, you are then able to up the challenge of activities thereby increasing the physical demands that lead to the need for more bone and your body produces more bone growth cells.
Research:
Ruthy Alon, the creator of Movement Intelligence, conducted a Bones for Life pilot study in 2005 that showed improvement in the bone density of 31 women aged 28 - 69 years old, who did Bones for Life classes for four months, meeting three hours per week.
Alon reported that Bone Mineral Density (BMD) improved in the forearm (the distal radius). The diagnostic device used in study was a Speed of Sound Sonometer. Before doing the Bones for Life Program, testing showed BMD scores ranged from minus 3.70 to plus 1.40. After four months in Alon's program, BMD scores ranged from minus 3.50 to plus 2.70, a statistically significant improvement.
Studies in older men and women who performed weight-bearing exercise showed increases in bone mineral density, bone strength and bone size, as well as helping to reduce bone turnover rates.
A recent study showed that women who spend more than 2 minutes of their day at an intensity equivalent to running have on average 6% better bone health than those who do less than a minute. This was accomplished over a 6-12 month period of time.
It is important when doing daily activities that you are aware of maintaining dynamic efficient posture and that is the focus of Bones for Life.
What to expect:
- An enjoyable learning environment that encourages questions and open exploration.
- Straightforward and concise explanations, real-life applications.
- Personal growth and discovery that never ends.
- Inspiring insight you can apply immediately into your personal and professional practice.
- Movement processes are done in sitting, lying, standing, and walking.
You will need:
- Wrap: 8 yards or 7 meter length of cotton fabric, about 1 yard or meter wide (you can make your own wrap: rip 2 old sheets (single sheets work really well) to make 1 yard width strips and then sew the ends together to make the 8 yards. We use the wrap as a prop in novel ways to help us find better alignment and integration.
- Weights: Pair of 1 or 2 pound ankle weights
- Mat
- Chair
- Journal
- For teacher certification: The Bones for Life Teacher's Manuals and FMI Membership (included in the Program Fee)
and a Google account for creating, editing and receiving google docs, click here if you need to set this up - Video conferencing software and a computer, smartphone, or tablet to run it. Get a Zoom account here: https://zoom.us/
You can test the teleseminar service Zoom, your internet connection, and your speakers and microphone at any time by going to this link:https://zoom.us/test
If you need technical help, please reach out to Zoom technical support: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362003-Zoom-Technical-Support
8. A well-lit and quiet space where you can set up your camera so that it can see you from head to toe when you are standing against a wall and lying on the floor near a wall.
Written outlines of the Program Processes, recordings of the classes, and Teacher Certificate (when all requirements have been met) will be included in the cost of the full Teacher Training.
CEs for full Teacher Training (please inquire for details)
CSEP: 15
BCAK: 15
FGNA: 120
NCBTMB: 120
Teacher Certification
This Bones for Life integrated training program consists of 90 processes taught over 3 segments of 30 hours each.
To complete the requirements for Teacher Certification participants are expected to review the material on their own and in study groups using the manuals and recordings.
Plus attend the 30 hour Didactic/Practicum segment. As well as attending study groups, each participant will need to complete assignments, and practice teach a minimum of 30 hours outside of class time.
More details of required hours for certification of the whole training:
- 3 parts of the 15 x 2 hour sessions = 90 hours meeting live at a particular time
- watch the recordings on your own = 90 hours recorded (or more depending on how many times you watch or rewind)
- 15 x 2 hour sessions for the Didactic/Practicum where we delve more deeply into the material = 30 hours meeting live at a particular time (+ how many times you wish to watch the recordings)
- meet in study groups = number of hours is up to each individual; live meetings scheduled by the small groups; most people find this very enjoyable to study with their colleagues building personal and group skills in communicating and learning with each other and creating community; also study groups assist in creating the presentations for the Didactic (teaching the processes to each other)
- practice teach outside of class time = 36 hours
Fees
Teacher Training: Each Segment is $775 USD (30 hours each segment; there are 3 segments + Teacher Didactic segment)
which includes $25 USD for annual FMI Teacher in Training membership & $100 for Manual 1 or Manuals 2 & 3.
<Fees adjusted if you are already a FMI member and/or have the Manuals; Manuals only available for Teachers in Training and FMI members.
If you already have the Manuals, you can join FMI in 2022 when you complete your Teacher certification>
Didactic/Practicum is $700 USD (30 hours and includes FMI Bones for Life Teacher certificate)
$25 added if you are not a FMI member
Please note: the Manuals are in hard copy format
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Cancellation Policy
Confirmed written notice more than 28 days prior to the start of the Teacher Trianing program, full refund minus an administration fee; less than 28 days prior to the start of the program no refund given. Fees are transferable or creditable to other BonesForever programs at organizer's discretion. In the event of program cancellation by the organizer, a full refund will be given. The organizer is not responsible for any other expenses incurred.