The Movement School/Community is for anyone interested in personal peace,
physical comfort, balance, breath, grace, ground, poise, movement, stillness,
coordination, relaxation, readiness, ease, flexibility, and freedom.
3-day Introductory Retreat
Three-day retreats entail coming to the first third of a nine day retreat.
You will learn about your Peaceful Body. Depending upon the particular
retreat you choose, the retreat will relate your Peace Body Practice to
moving comfortably through your whole life, to the art of walking, to
the physical and emotional demands of being an artist, or to the study
of Tai Chi, not as a martial art, but as a living art.
9-day Intensive Retreat
Nine-day retreats give you the time to enter deeply into your Peaceful
Body. You will return home with newly acquired sensitivity and skill that
will make a real difference in your body and being. This will significantly
affect the way you relate to yourself, to others, and to the world around
you.
A certificate is awarded upon completion of a nine-day retreat, acknowledging
your study at The Movement School.
(Sometimes students have to leave a day or two early. This is a little
sad, but understandable. Tuition remains the same.)
Professional Teacher Training Program
The Movement School offers a Teacher Training Program, comprised of four
9-day retreats per year, over three years, for those wishing to be teachers
of The Peaceful Body. Peaceful Body teachers graduate with an embodied
knowledge of the work of F.M. Alexander, Marjorie L. Barstow, and Professor
Chen Man-ch’ing, as taught by Bruce Fertman. Graduates are professionally
certified to teacher The Alexander Technique, T’ai Chi Chu’an, The Peaceful
Body, and The Walking Way, as taught by Bruce Fertman.
The three years fly by. The experience is unquestionably transformative.
The changes are deep and pervasive. Lifetime friendships are made. Students
leave with the knowledge and sensitivity to help and serve others. They
have become an important part of a longstanding tradition, and a valued
teacher of The Movement School Community.
(There is a one-year grace period, tuition free, for making up missed Retreats. Life happens.)
Bruce Fertman
Bruce Fertman is the principle teacher at all the Retreats, and throughout
the teacher training program. On occasion guest teachers come to enrich
and round out your experience.
Contact me directly if you have any questions.
I will be happy to talk to you.
If you are seriously interested in training to become a Peaceful Body teacher, you are welcome to visit me, at no charge, for two days. We can spend time working together. And I can show you around both our Ghost Ranch and Santa Fe “Campus.”