Late Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter 2026-2027
This course is offered to all health care therapists and body-related practitioners as an adjunct method for your practice.
FREE, Live Intro Classes Via Zoom: 11am EDT, Saturdays April 11 & 18, Sunday May 3
The Core Movement Integration (CMI) Practitioner Training consists of five live Seminars via Zoom. Each seminar consists of 10 credit hours of class time, instruction in the CMI Six Pathways and their applications, group practice, and peer learning sessions.
The CMI Practitioner Training Program will facilitate changes in your body, yielding fluidity, comfort and efficiency of movement throughout your work and daily life. Students are strongly encouraged to participate with their instructors and fellow students to integrate the Pathways into their own body awareness and sense of movement. As you develop CMI skills, you incorporate these new tools into your professional practice, with clear results for your clients or students.
Primary Teachers:
Kimi Hasegawa, LPT, MS, NCBTMB certified instructor
Deborah Hledik, LMT (AMTA), NCBTMB certified instructor
Guest Teachers:
To be announced
Prerequisites:
Strong background in anatomy & its terminology
Certification in a manual or movement therapy (examples PT, OT, Massage therapist, Feldenkrais® practitioner, certified Yoga teacher, etc.)
CMI Pathways and Access Points Manuals (pdf). Manuals may be purchased here.
Josef DellaGrotte’s Instructions from Within may be purchased here as well.
PLEASE NOTE: Dates and Times below may be subject to change.
Seminar 1: CMI Foundations – Mapping Movement Pathways with Functional Anatomy
- Learn the six basic CMI Pathways in standing, sitting, side lying and supine
- Apply the four fundamental movement concepts of CMI – Connect, Lengthen, Flow, Uplift
- Enhance learning by connecting movement with breathing and touch
- Explore multiple manual techniques and their effects
Class Dates: Sundays May 17, May 31, June 7 & June 14, 2026
Seminar 2. Improving Dynamic Core Stabilization
- Learn Advanced Pathway positions: Bridging and Quadruped (Hands & Knees)
- Use the CMI Pathways to access and strengthen the pelvic floor, deep abdominals and other core muscles
- Develop a sense of the dual role of stability and mobility of the pelvis and spine
- Begin learning to use the CMI Pathways in walking.
Class Dates: Sundays July 12, 19, 26 & August 2, 2026
Seminar 3: Heads Up! Connecting Head-Neck, Ribs, Spine and Arms to Pelvis and Shoulder Girdle
- Learn to use the CMI Pathways to balance and align head in sitting, standing and walking.
- Reduce neck and spine stiffness and increase mobility.
- Increase breathing capacity and coordination with movement.
- Learn to use CMI Pathways to improve shoulder and arm function by connecting their movement to the whole body.
Tentative Class Dates: Sundays September 20, 27, October 4 & 11, 2026
Seminar 4: Connecting Leg to Pelvis, Greater Trochanter & Spine
- Use CMI Pathways to improve leg and foot function by connecting their movement to the whole body.
- Use CMI Pathways to mobilize and strengthen pelvis and lower extremities.
- Practice identifying self/client movement patterns using the perspective of the CMI Pathways.
- Practice choosing appropriate CMI movement lessons to improve self/client function.
Tentative Class Dates: Sundays November 8, 15, 22 & December 6, 2026
Seminar 5: Putting CMI into Practice
- Practice teaching the CMI Pathways and lesson-exercises.
- Use Pathways for strengthening with exercise bands or hand weights.
- Learn advanced CMI lesson-exercises that use multiple Pathways.
- Review walking with emphasis on whole body movement.
- Practice hands-on techniques with partners to increase Pathway effectiveness.
- Practice evaluating the clients’ movement using the Pathways
Tentative Class Dates: Sundays January 10, 16, 23 & 29, 2027
Students are required to attend all Zoom classes in person. Video recordings of each class will be available for additional study. Should a student miss an in-person class, the video recording may be used to make up the missed class. To receive credit for any classes not attended in person, the student must view the recorded class video and submit a written report describing the material learned, its applications and any questions about the material.
Please Note:
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- Practitioners who already have a working knowledge of the CMI basic pathways may take seminars 2 – 5 with prior approval by the primary course instructors. Contact the instructors via email at Info@CoreMovementIntegration.com.
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- You can receive the Early Bird discount by signing up two weeks prior for each seminar you wish to take.
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