Spring, Summer and Early Fall 2025
This course is offered to all health care therapists and body-related practitioners as an adjunct method for your practice.
The Core Movement Integration (CMI) Practitioner Training consists of five 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. Each 10-hour seminar of the Practitioner Certification Training is applied to the completion of the 50-hour requirement for practitioner certification.
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:
Dr. Josef DellaGrotte, PhD, CMI Founder
Additional certified CMI practitioners to be announced
Participants are encouraged to attend a free, optional one hour intro class on Sunday March 16th, Saturday March 22nd or Saturday April 5th, at 11am EDT. Click here for more info.
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.)
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
Seminar 2. Improving Dynamic Core Stabilization in Standing and Sitting
- Use the CMI Pathways to access the pelvic floor and deep abdominals
- Understand the role of pelvic tilting and rotation in the CMI Pathways
- Develop a sense of the dual role of stability and mobility of the pelvis and spine
Seminar 3. CMI: Upper Body – Connecting Head-Neck and Spine to Pelvis
- Mobilize the ribs and spine to increase upper trunk support and improve breathing
- Use CMI Pathways to connect pelvic and skull movement through the spine
Seminar 4. CMI: Shoulder – Connecting Shoulder-Arm to Ribs, Spine and Pelvis
- Use CMI Pathways to improve arm movement by connecting it to the whole body
Seminar 5: CMI: Walking – Connecting Lower Leg to Greater Trochanter and Spine
- Use the CMI Pathways for locomotion (walking, ascending and descending stairs)
- Overview of Certification Program
Students are required to attend all five Zoom seminars in person. Video recordings of each seminar session 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:
- Non-practitioners who are interested in using CMI for personal training and self-care, and are not interested in being certified, must register for seminar 1 and should register for seminar 2.
- 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.
- You can receive the early bird discount by signing up two weeks prior for each seminar you wish to take.