Being Responsible to One Another

Your Commitment To Us

• a humble desire to learn from your fellow students and from your teachers.
• social maturity. sympathy and respect toward others.
• being in class, attentive, open, and ready to work.
• self-motivation.
• curiosity.
• perseverance.
• meeting your financial contract in a timely matter. Yearly tuition is $8500.00 and will not be increased during the three years of your training. Tuition of $2833.33 is due July 1st, November 1st, and March 1st.

Our Commitment To You

• to create a safe and supportive atmosphere for learning and unlearning, treating everyone with the utmost respect.
• to provide abundant opportunities for becoming highly sensitive, able to discern habitual patterns of movement and posture, within yourself and others, that interfere with comfort, poise, grace, and ground. To become able to undo and free yourself and others from these patterns.
• to educate your kinesthetic and proprioceptive senses to an extraordinary degree, and to learn how to enable others do the same.
• to instill a deep understanding of the essential principles that underlie the work of F.M. Alexander, Marjorie L. Barstow, and the teachings of Tai Chi Chu’an. To be able to apply these principles directly into your life, and to help others to be able to do the same.
• a practical, embodied understanding of the principles which underlie sound walking and the ability to convey this understanding to others.
• a deep sense of what prevents physical peace and how to restore physical peace.
• to develop acute powers of observation along with the ability to communicate tactually and verbally in ways that lead to transformative experiences for both you and your students.

Our Financial Contract

Tuition & Structure

Each year of study is comprised of four 9 day Events. Events are held in Northern New Mexico.

As a student of the Movement School you are responsible for meeting your financial contract in a timely manner. Tuition is divided into thirds, and is due on the 1st of March, August and November. Your tuition remains the same throughout the course of your three-year training. Yearly tuition for the new incoming class beginning, October 30, 2010, will be $9,000. We grant a fourth year grace period for making up missed time at no extra expense.

Although our curriculum requires three years of study to graduate, each year we ask for a personal and financial commitment for that year. At the end of each year, we ask you to decide whether or not to commit personally and financially for another year. At the end of each school year, together, we review your standing as a student of the Movement School. Because The Movement School is not exclusively a vocational school, but a community/school devoted to personal development, every student that upholds their contract graduates. Graduating is not contingent upon talent, or performance. It is contingent upon being there, doing your best, and being supportive of your fellow students.