Stage 1 2025 – SEKI METHOD TEACHER TRAINING – Open call for applications!

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World Wide Moving School

Stage 1 in Berlin / Stage 2 in Japan / Stage 3 in Chile

SEKI METHOD 

TEACHER TRAINING

2025:

Stage 1 – New promotion is opening!

Watch this documental, shot during Stage 1 -2024 by Metzeri Mandujano

Over the course of 223 hours, the 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-nine 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 of the Seki Method Teacher Training includes:

 

  • Learning its principals of dance training within the five overarching themes: Power of Imagination, Fundamental Awakening, Dancing In-between, Dancing the Qualia and Focus Shifting.
  • Developing dance skills such as perception, presence and creativity through group sharing and personal reflection.
  • Researching movement to experience interconnectivity with the environment and others.
  • Learning and implementing the Seki Method Bodymap.
  • Exploring how to synthesize the method with the inner child to support the unfolding of individuality through creativity.

     

 

There are 3 stages to the Teacher Training programme –  World Wide Moving School 

 

STAGE 1 : 

03.03 to 08.05.2025, in Berlin, Germany.

Qualification: Seki Method Facilitator Stage 1

Open to: Everyone selected through application

 

STAGE 2:

Autumn (01.10 to 11.11) 2025 or Autumn 2026, in Tomitsu, Unzen, Nagasaki, Japan (choice of the date depending of your availability and number of free spots)

Qualification: Seki Method Facilitator Stage 2

Open to : Student who successfully completed Stage 1

 

STAGE 3:

Winter 2026 or Winter 2028, in Ko-Panqui, Chile (choice of the date depending of your availability and number of free spots)

Qualification: Seki Method Teacher

Open to: selected students who successfully completed Stage 2

 

STAGE 1 – 2025 // CALENDAR

in Eden*****Studio, Berlin

3-6 march, in studio 190 EG

MO to THU 9h30-18h

 

10-14 march, in studio 150.1

MO to THU 9h30-14h30

FRI 10h30-13h

 

14 march : Macrobiotic meal and course

at Natural’mente , with Hans Arthur Schmid

14h-18h

 

25-28 march, in studio 150.1

TUE to THU 9h30-14h30

FRI 10h30-14h30

 

31 march- 3 April, in studio 150.1

MO to THU 9h30-14h30

 

17-20 April,in studio 150.1  

THU 9h30-14h30

FRI 10h30-14h30

SAT-SUN 9h30-18h

 

22 april: Outdoor practice (trip to the forest by train)

TUE 9h30-18h 

 

23-25 april, in studio 150.2 

WED-THU 9h30-18h

 

29-30 april, in the countryside: Healing retreat (Japanese Traditional Healing Techniques)

SAT 10H-20H (meeting at 9am)

SUN 9h-16h (arriving in Berlin around 6 pm)

1 – 7 May, in Studio 300

THU to WED 9h30-18h

 

8 May,  in studio 150.1

THU 9h30-14h30

 

TOTAL : 223h 

 

CONTENT

Module 1: Energy, Alignment and Intention 1: Introduction to sense of hanging from the Earth, Upper and Lower Tails. (34,5h)

Module 2: Body as a Waterbag 1: Developing physical receptivity and sensitivity through sensing the fluid body.  (16h)

Module 3: Falling and Bouncing 1: Exploring gravity by shifting weight in movement. (30,5h)

Module 4: Shadow Side of the Body: Creating, catching and defining space. (27,5h)

Module 5: Body as a Point: Isolations, points on the body and in the body, creating space in-between body points. (29h)

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. (56h)

  • Teachings on Macrobiotic food and philosophy (4h)
  • Outdoor practice (8h)
  • Healing practice: Teachings on Japanese Traditional Healing Techniques (17h)

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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.

 

Fees:

€2552 for Stage 1

(Additional small expenses are possible. Ex: train tickets for the trip in case of outdoor training)

Installments available. Once you are selected, 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 a link (Drive or any link)
  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 (the video has to be made specifically for this application, we won’t accept videos of past performances)

Both videos and the CV must be any Youtube/Vimeo/Googledrive link, no files, no wetransfer will be accepted.

The number of participants is limited.

Deadline for sending your application : 7th of October  2024 According to a high demand of delay, the deadine will be on the 10th of December 2024.

 

For any question and application, contact Lili Lenfant / Seki Method School Management  

Email: mail@minakoseki.com

www.minakoseki.com