Feldenkrais Principles enrich Focusing – Establishing the Right Conditions for Learning
7th February 2026 Zoom
Other Workshop/Event Online English
A Highlight hosted by The International Focusing Institute
By exploring both the similarities and the differences between two process-oriented approaches— Focusing and Feldenkrais®—we can deepen our appreciation of the learning conditions already cultivated in Focusing, and discover fresh perspectives offered by the Feldenkrais lens. This can make Focusing even more effective.
Infants are curious, fully present, and naturally delight in learning through unexpected discovery. Most of us, however, have been educated away from this way of learning. How can we, as adults, rediscover, practice, and appreciate the vitality of learning as a living process?
Amona will introduce the Feldenkrais® approach, Awareness Through Movement®, which shares similar aims with Focusing, and illustrates how honoring the nature of the human nervous system deepens and enriches learning.
We are increasingly informed about the nervous system in relation to traumatic phenomena. Yet knowing and respecting how the human nervous system works is equally valuable for all learning processes. Understanding basic learning principles can greatly support “carrying forward,” integrating what has carried forward, and living it.
Through these lenses, Amona invites us to reflect on three central questions:
- How do we recover this love and joy of process-oriented learning as adults?
- What supports the emergence of the “new” within process-oriented learning—
or, perhaps, what allows the natural, the organic to come forward again? - What anchors the new so it can become second nature— a pattern that is flexible, adaptable, and alive?
In her presentation, Amona will weave theory and experiential exercises so that participants can experience and understand how basic learning principles apply across all process-oriented learning.
Audience
This presentation is especially relevant for those who already practice or teach Focusing or other experiential, process-based approaches. It is also for anyone curious about learning, in parenting, in teaching. Some prior experience with Focusing will be helpful but is not necessary.
Bio
For more than 32 years, Amona Buechler has studied and deeply practiced a variety of process-oriented, experiential approaches, including Feldenkrais, Meditation, Focusing, Systemic Constellation, Conscious Touch, and more.
She is a Focusing Coordinator in Training with The International Focusing Institute. Amona offers both beginner-level courses and Professional Focusing Training, online and in-person. She also offers a Nervous System Reset course that integrates several modalities. Most of her in-person courses, retreats, and a Changes Group are offered in German.
Amona seeks to offer a learning environment in which participants dare to experiment and explore by following their curiosity—an environment where mistakes are nothing but invigorating opportunities to discover more possibilities.
Amona is looking forward to the International Conference 2026 in Vienna and to engaging there in inspiring conversations and experimentation.
Host
The International Focusing Institute
When
Saturday, February 7, 2026 – 2 hours
PDT (US West Coast): 7:00 am–9:00 am
EST (US East Coast): 10:00 am–12:00 pm
GMT (UK): 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
CET (Central Europe): 7:00 pm–9:00 pm
Where
Zoom
Registration
Please register with TIFI here