Awareness Through Movement®
Two daily Awareness Through Movement® lessons to improve your own proprioception, interoception, balance, and alignment — skills you can then transfer directly to your clients.
Continuing education, with a whole-body perspective
Neuro pain
Neuro pain
relief therapy.
A Full-Body Approach to Easing Pain
A 16-Hour Continuing Education Course for Therapists & Health Practitioners
More awareness. More connection. More ease.
16 contact hours
Hands-on learning
Personalized instruction
In person & virtual
The approachA broader lens.
A broader lens.
A deeper connection.
Learn how to free your clients from pain at its source by implementing a full-body approach that combines Feldenkrais® with Physical Therapy principles. This course moves beyond isolated, symptom-based treatment to give therapists a broader clinical lens.
Participants will learn practical somatic movement strategies and manual skills to help clients decrease their sympathetic responses, improve body awareness, manage pain, and restore efficient movement patterns.
This course is live, interactive, and features specific content dedicated to neuromuscular re-education and pain modulation and management.
Who should attend this course?
Occupational and Physical therapists and other health practitioners who want to deepen their manual skills and expand their treatment approach beyond isolated, symptom-based care to address the root causes of chronic and neuromuscular pain.
What to expect
Learn it. Feel it. Apply it.
Practical movement strategies and manual skills you can bring into your work.
Hands-on practice
A hands-on lab to learn manual techniques you can apply in session right away.
Live demonstrations
A live demonstration on one of your most difficult-to-treat patients (selected for their level of pain) + Demos on class participants.
Nervous system regulation
Learn neuromodulation techniques and how to down-regulate your client’s nervous system.
Saturday’s focus
The Pelvis, Head, and Neck connection
Sunday’s focus
The arms and fingers and their connection to the large muscle groups
Course objectivesA new perspective.
A new perspective.
Practical skills.
At the end of the course, attendees will be able to:
- Identify and treat clients with neuromuscular dysfunction from the root, taking a full-body approach and expanding the clinical lens.
- Apply manual techniques that support neuromodulation, including methods to shift the patient from a sympathetic-dominant state toward a relaxed parasympathetic state.
- Identify high-tonus and paradoxical movement patterns in patients and apply neuromuscular re-education strategies to improve motor function.
- Incorporate ergonomic and postural principles that support pain prevention and reduction for computer users.
- Significantly Improve Range of Motion (i.e. of the neck), twisting, bending, and rotating (without typical stretching), and improve ease and fluidity of movement.
- Improve your own balance, alignment, and connection with yourself.
Course dates & locations
Make space for learning.
Come together in Santa Fe or Denver.
Or join the course virtually.
New Mexico
Santa Fe
New MexicoNovember 20–22, 2026
Liveability · 9 Taylor Loop
Santa Fe, NM 87508
- Friday, Nov 206:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Saturday, Nov 218:30 AM – 5:30 PM
- Sunday, Nov 228:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Room for only 3 more participants. Due to the cozy, specialized room space, you can expect highly individualized instruction and personalized supervision.
View tuition & registrationColorado
Denver
ColoradoDecember 19–20 & May 28–31*
Denver, CO
December & Memorial Day weekend courses
Earlybird Rates: $500 through Dec. 1st.
May Memorial weekend: $100 more for an additional day = 4 days / 24 contact hours.
Stay with Shara. Shara can host 3 people (in a private room) for $100/night or $200 for the weekend (ok to stay 3 nights). Breakfast included.
View tuition & registration* Denver course years, final May dates, and Memorial weekend contact hours will be confirmed before registration.
Prefer to join from home? Zoom / Virtual is an option.
$200 each course
Pricing & registrationInvest in your practice.
Invest in your practice.
Reconnect with movement.
Choose an in-person course or join virtually.
Standard tuition · In person
$600
$100 off if coming from out of state (or early bird).
Zoom / Virtual
$200 / course
Join the course virtually.
- 1:1 Manual Feldenkrais sessions will be offered by Shara for a discounted rate of $125.
- Denver training, May 29–31 (1 extra day than other courses): $600 Earlybird. May dates and course duration to be confirmed.
Registration details pending.
About the instructor
Meet Shara Ogin.
OTR/L · GCFPᶜᵐ · CEAS
Shara Ogin has been an OT for over 25 years, working over 15 years as an outpatient therapist. She worked 5 years as an Ergonomist, and has been a Feldenkrais Practitioner since 2002 (a 4-year training). She is passionate about teaching you the skills she believes will be most effective in evoking long-term root-cause healing and change.
25+years as an OT
15+years in outpatient care
2002Feldenkrais Practitioner since
Good to knowCome comfortable.
Come comfortable.
Leave with possibility.
A few practical details to help you prepare for the course.
What to bring
Please wear loose, comfortable clothing suitable for movement lessons and lab, and bring a yoga mat.
Continuing education credit information
A Certificate of Completion for 16 Contact Hours upon successfully completing the course.
Please Note: This course is designed to fulfill the self-directed continuing competency guidelines for Occupational Therapists in portfolio-based or "hands-off" states (such as Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and California). It is the responsibility of the individual clinician to determine if this course meets the specific regulations of their state licensing board.
Course disclaimer
The registration form includes a consent form and waiver of liability for participation, which includes consent to practice on and be practiced on by other participants.
A full-body approach starts here.
Neuro Pain Relief Therapy with Shara Ogin.