Become a Certified Seki Method Teacher – Join the Next Training!

Ready to become a Seki Method Teacher?

Over the course of 3 months and 205 hours, participants will dive into Stage 1 of the Seki Method Teacher Training to intensively explore its fundamentals, understand its movement language, and become fluent in the method on the level of body and mind while growing into a Seki Method facilitator.
Minako Seki has been developing her unique approach to dance for over thirty-eight years. Her work has come about through researching movement and meditatively contemplating the worlds of physics, biology, animal behaviour, minerals and plant life, as well as human relationships and the structures of the mind. From this intuitive wisdom she has created dance choreography and a teaching method. 
For Seki and her students, meditation and bodywork are the starting points for cultivating a clear mind, which is the door to intuitive wisdom from which dance and creativity spring. When teaching she harnesses the energy of the group to help awaken each individual, and considers joy and freedom of movement to be keystones of her method.

Stage 1 and Stage 3 will take place in Berlin, Germany. Stage 2 will happen in Obamacho Tomitsu, Unzen, Nagasaki, Japan.

Contents:

The Seki Method Teacher Training is open to dancers/movers, therapists, those working in the healing arts, artists from other disciplines and anyone interested in learning the skills and language of the Seki Method, as well as how to teach others. A good physicality, strong stamina and movement experience are necessary.

Conditions you should know before applying:

• We are looking for movers with a research mind who are willing to make a deep COMMITMENT to this training.
• A willingness for deep, accurate individual work is required, together with the capacity to care for group dynamics within a collective space.
• We will ask you to commit to 1) your own daily practice 2) the ongoing homework 3) the teaching practice between modules. The team will check everyone’s homework and will use an evaluation tool to follow your development during the training.
• We will all respect complete silence in the studio every morning of the training until after meditation.
• We will all arrive at least 20 minutes before the start of the training to do our stretching every morning.
• You will take notes throughout the training and share them with the group at the end of Stage 1.
• We will ask you to support each other and be kind to yourself and the group. You will look after your physical and mental health.
• The training will be in English, and we expect you to be able to understand and express yourself in this language (no translation will be provided)

Fees:
€2233 for Stage 1
(Additional small expenses are possible. Ex: train tickets for the trip in case of outdoor training)
Installments available. Please talk to us if you’d like to set up a payment plan.

Application:

• Please send to mail@minakoseki.com: 1) Your CV in PDF 2) One short 2 minute video introducing yourself and your interest in the Teacher Training programme ( in English) 3) One short 2-minute video of your dance and movement (both videos as Youtube/Vimeo/Googledrive link, no files, no wetransfer, please).
• The number of participants is limited.
• Deadline for sending your application : 20th of January 2024

3 years SEKI METHOD TEACHER TRAINING: CONTENTS

6Stage 1: April 2024 – June 2024
Qualification: Seki Method Stage 1 Facilitator

Module 1. Energy, Alignment and Intention 1: Introduction to sense of hanging from the Earth, Upper and Lower Tails.
Module 2. Body as a Waterbag 1: Developing physical receptivity and sensitivity through sensing the fluid body.
Module 3. Falling and Bouncing 1: Exploring gravity by shifting weight in movement.
Module 4. Shadow Side of the Body: Creating, catching and defining space.
Module 5. Body as a Point: Isolations, points on the body and in the body, creating space in-between body points.
Module 6. Space Between and Composition: Dialogue between points in the body and points in the surroundings. Finding your own theme and developing a composition within a site.

Stage 2: Autumn 2024 or Autumn 2025
Qualification: Seki Method Stage 2 Facilitator

Module 1. Energy, Alignment and Intention 2: Embodied Being, expanding range of movement responses from Lower Tail impulses and finding increased subtlety within the body.
Module 2. Body as a Waterbag 2 and Falling and Bouncing 2: Deepening role of relaxation in active movement, fluency of different paces. Developing precision in gravity and the bounce reaction to shape movement on the micro level and within a range of consistencies.
Module 3. Worlds Between Worlds: Exploring the process from creative input to improvisation using embodied imagination. Developing creative responses to work by others.
Module 4. Seeing and Composition Laboratory: Playing with composition techniques, setting the space and physical structure of the stage, making composition choices, taking on both the roles of director and performer, performance practice.

Stage 3: 2026
Qualification: Seki Method Teacher

At the end of Stage 2, Minako will select the students she would like to become full Seki Method Teachers. They will be invited to a month-long training in the second half of 2027.

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Contact : Lili Lenfant / Seki Method School Management

Email: mail@minakoseki.com
www.minakoseki.com