Welcome to this page dedicated to the Movement Medicine Apprenticeship cycle in France.
Next start :
January 12th, 2025
Please note: there are some prerequisites – see below.
Dates :
Module 1: January 12th -19th, 2025
Module 2: April 8th-13th, 2025
Module 3: June 9th-16th 2025
Module 4: October 7th-12th, 2025
Module 5: December 1st-8th 2025
What is a Movement Medicine Apprenticeship?
It is a cycle of experimentation and intensive practice of Movement Medicine and its philosophy, previously taught by Ya’Acov and Susannah DARLING KHAN, in England. Today, the Apprenticeship is only given in France and Hungary.
This cycle gives access to professionalisation for those who wish it.
What is Movement Medicine?
Movement Medicine is a free and conscious dance practice whose effects reach all areas of our lives. It places “who we really are” at the center, and “how to deploy our gifts in the world” according to this. It restores to us the joy, meaning and value of supporting everything to which we are connected: people, nature, community, the visible and the invisible, including the challenges of our lives.
It is for EVERYONE, dancers and non-dancers alike.
Apprenticeship provides ‘tools’ that are particularly effective in today’s world!
Link to the official Movement Medicine website: https://www.schoolofmovementmedicine.com
Anne Ena BERNARD
certified in Movement Medicine, is the only person to teach this cycle in France and in French.
She has 30 years’ experience of teaching free dance, based on her long experience of modern therapies and shamanism. A descendant of Isadora Duncan, she specialises in the vital, instinctive movement of the body. She also offers the ‘Phoenix’ and ‘Initiation’ workshops, which are prerequisites for joining the Apprenticeship programme in France. See the Agenda HERE.
She is accompanied by Nicolas BERNARD, with whom she co-founded the “Les Neuf Souffles” school of dialogue with the body.
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ?
SEE YOUR LIFE AS A CREATIVE PROJECT
You will be asked to define your intention for this Apprenticeship. This intention could range, for example, from completing writing a book to finding peace with your family. The intensity of this programme enables you to receive the support you legitimately need to achieve your best and be satisfied with your contribution to the world.
WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE :
– Practise the fundamental tools of Movement Medicine
– Benefit from individual follow-up outside the courses to apply them in your daily life.
– Strengthen your personal power of integrity and security in your life.
– Be in harmony with others and with nature.
– Rediscover the value of a caring group and a supportive international community.
THE PROGRAM IS FOR PEOPLE WHO:
– Integrate the practice, philosophy and application of Movement Medicine as ‘medicine for our times’ into their own lives
– Embrace life physically, emotionally, conceptually and spiritually, with its depth, heights and mystery.
– Make a difference in the world and walk their talk in all areas of life
– Embody who they are in all aspects of their lives
– Be part of a community of mutual flourishing and are willing and able to bring integrity, respect and kindness to self and others.
– Have a sense of humour about themselves and yet are serious about what they want to create in this life
PREREQUISITES FOR JOINING THE APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMME
To start this programme, you will need to meet a number of prerequisites to be well prepared.
Below we outline the minimum prerequisites for the Apprenticeship Program, as well as recommendations for further preparation. Please feel free to apply if you are still missing a few courses but plan to complete them before the course begins.,
THE PHOENIX Retreat
with Anne Ena (next date: August 2024), or another MM teacher certified for this course
(in English)
THE INITIATION Retreat
with Anne Ena (next date: October 2024), or another MM teacher certified for this course (in English).
175 hours of conscious dance practice:
and full description of prerequisites
THE APPRENTICESHIP MOVEMENT MEDICINE PROGRAMME
The course consists of 37 days of training + 9 individual follow-ups.
5 main modules with Anne Ena and Nicolas: 31 days of training
- – Module 1: “Intention”: anchoring yourself, giving body and direction to your dreams.
- – Module 2: “Fundamentals of Free Movement”: awakening the body’s instinctive coordinations.
- – Module 3: “Immersion”: deepening your practice, making it part of your everyday life, developing your relationships.
- – Module 4: “Body Language and Alchemy”: transforming lead into gold with art, compassion and poetry.
- – Module 5: “Expansion”: feeling entitled to shine to your full potential, feeling you belong in the community and in the world.
Individual guidance
Throughout the course, you will have 9 one-to-one meetings with Anne Ena and Nicolas and their supervisors. This is essential to help you integrate the benefits of the teaching received during the courses into your daily life.
6-day ceremony in England: The Long Dance
THE annual gathering with the whole Movement Medicine community, the founders and their Amazonian shaman friends, open to the public.
This major 6-day event includes a 72-hour dance ceremony. This is an integral part of your Apprenticeship. You must have done one, either within 18 months of starting your Apprenticeship or within 18 months of your last module.
DATES :
Module 1: “Intention” – January 12th to 19th, 2025
Module 2: Fundamentals of Free Movement Theme Course: April 8th to 13th, 2025
Module 3: “Immersion” June 9th to 16th, 2025
Module 4: Body Language and Alchemy Theme Course: October 7th to 12th, 2025
Module 5: “Expansion” December 1st to 8th, 2025
LOCATION :
Domaine Le Hameau de l’Etoile
Route de Frouzet
34380 SAINT-MARTIN-DE-LONDRES
Tel (+33) 04 67 55 75 73
FULL-BOARD COURSE
The booking link will be sent to you in due course.
FEES, PAYMENT AND ENROLMENT
Prices for teaching
We have drawn up a price scale that allows some people to contribute more than others. In particular, this makes it possible to include young people or people in very difficult situations, and to give them the support they need to make their contribution to the world.
please place yourselves in conscience in the different prices proposed
The prices below include 31 days of training (5 modules) + 9 individual video mentoring sessions:
– Rate 1: 4,200 euros + 90 euros administration fee: income close to minimum wage
– Rate 2: €4,990 + €90 administration fee: intermediate income earners
– Rate 3: €5,900 + €90 administration fee: high-income earners
A small number of places at lower rates are available on application. This possibility can only be discussed before the Apprenticeship application is validated.
Prices for accommodation and food
All courses are at the Hameau de l’étoile and are full-board.
You must book your own accommodation before each module. A booking code will be sent to you by email for this purpose.
You will also be required to pay directly for each module on site.
Day rate from €70, in dormitories.
A wide range of other accommodation is available. To see the accommodation and prices, follow these two links. Please take into account a reduction of €5/day, which will be deducted when you pay on site.
List of accommodation
Accommodation prices
A support fund for board is available in certain cases, on request and after studying the file. This possibility can only be discussed before the Apprenticeship application is validated and will cover all requirements for the course. No requests will be accepted or considered during the Apprenticeship.
Prices for accommodation and food
All courses are held at the Hameau de l’étoile and include full board.
You will need to book your own accommodation before each module. A booking code will be sent to you by email for this purpose.
You will also be required to pay directly for each module on site.
Day rate from €70, in dormitories.
A wide range of other accommodation is available. To see the accommodation and prices, follow these two links. Please take into account a reduction of €5/day, which will be deducted when you pay on site.
List of accommodation
Accommodation prices
A support fund for board is available in certain cases, on request and after studying the file. This possibility can only be discussed before the Apprenticeship application is validated and will cover all requirements for the course. No requests will be accepted or considered during the Apprenticeship.
TO APPLY FOR THE NEXT APPRENTICESHIP starting January 12th, 2025
Steps to follow:
- Complete the REGISTRATION REQUEST form.
- Read and accept the GENERAL CONDITIONS of this course.
- PAY the registration fee of €90 – essential for us to receive and process your application.
- Click to SEND your application form.
After completing THE APPRENTICESHIP you will be free to:
Continue onto the two-module professional training with Ya’acov and Susannah
You can train to become a Movement Medicine professional with the founders, Ya’acov and Susannah Darling Khan.
Link to the current Movement Medicine professional training course: here.
Continue as a practitioner within the Apprenticeship (AP) community
– Movement Medicine teachers and events worldwide: schoolofmovementmedicine
– Les Neuf Souffles Teachers: on this link
Become a professional teacher with Les Neuf Souffles
Anne Ena and Nicolas Bernard also provide training in Dialogue with the Body and its Symbolism and in the Instinctive Coordination of Free Movement. These courses are open to anyone wishing to deepen their personal knowledge of these approaches.
–Body Language and Alchemy” course: here.
–Fundamentals of Free Movement” course: here.
If you follow these courses at the end of the Movement Medicine Professional Training Course, you will receive the titles of ” Movement Medicine Teacher” and Teacher of the Neuf Souffles