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Saturday, February 7, 2026 from 11:00am to 1:00pm New York time
Class will be recorded for all registrants and available for viewing for one month.
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.
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.
Format
We use Zoom videoconferencing for our online classes. In this webinar format, you will see the presenter and host, but you will not be seen. You will be able to ask questions during the webinar by typing them. Highlights presenters may at times invite a small number of participants to unmute or join them onscreen during the webinar (optional).
You will need to have a computer/mobile device. Calling in by phone is also possible but not preferred. All registered participants will be sent a link to the video recording approximately two weeks following the class. So if you are unable to attend the live webinar, you will still be able to view it for one month.
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.
Amona's website:
English: https://move-with-life.org
German: https://move-with-life.org/de
Focusing Highlights
The Focusing Highlights series highlights the work of those teaching, practicing and carrying forward Focusing all over the world. Presenters generously donate their time and participants pay what they can. If you are certified through The International Focusing Institute and would like to offer one, please check out this page.
Registration Information and Price
Amona is offering this class to support The International Focusing Institute. This live online class is pay-what-you-can. The suggested payment for US residents is $30.
If you need to give less, that's fine, but we do require each participant to give something. Please give extra if you can! Thank you for supporting the Institute.
Refunds: A full refund minus a $15 administrative fee (regardless of the registration fee paid) for cancellations 14 days before the start date. Cancellations less than 14 days before the start date are nonrefundable.
Registration Policies: TIFI reserves the right to cancel, change and alter the program if necessary. The opinions offered by presenters and participants are their own and do not necessarily represent the opinions of TIFI. Participants authorize TIFI to use their name, statements and likeness without charge, for promotional purposes in publications, advertising, video, web, new media, or other formats. Please note that the class will be recorded and may be distributed to a wider audience. By registering for this course with the Institute, and in consideration of the right and opportunity to participate in and contribute to the Institute’s classes, for the purposes of its control of all video and/or audio recordings thereof pertaining to uses serving our purposes and goals, in enrolling in this session you acknowledge and agree to the Institute’s ownership of all rights in such classes, including all rights under copyright therein. In no circumstance shall any portion or clip posted or displayed exceed 3 minutes in duration. If you plan to use, post or display any portion or clips of these recordings, including posting these to a website or to a social media platform or portal, you agree that you will seek and obtain the prior approval of the Institute.
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Contact
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Registration Information and Price
This live online class is pay-what-you-can. The suggested payment for US residents is $30. If you need to give less, that's fine, but we do require each participant to give something.