The Balanced Runner System Foundations
ATM Teacher Training
taught by Jae Gruenke, GCFP
Founder of The Balanced Runner
18 March to 15 May 2026 (excluding the first two weeks of April)
Wednesdays, 7:30-8:30 pm UK time
Registration Deadline: Monday 16 March 2026
In this special course for Feldenkrais teachers and trainees you'll learn to teach The Balanced Runner System™ Foundations series of Awareness Through Movement® lessons for runners.
This course is composed of seven weeks of material with a two week break in early April. Each week you'll do a lesson from The Balanced Runner System™ online running form course, which contains the sequence of ATM lessons Jae has honed over 24 years of professional practice to lay the movement foundations for healthy distance/endurance running form. (The lessons are also relevant to sprinting but are not comprehensive for that sport.)
In addition, each week in a live call Jae will discuss the internal structure of the week's lesson, how it meets a particular set of needs in running, and how it relates to the other lessons in the course. This will enable you to go beyond the personal experiences you had with the lesson to master the material and be able to teach it, adapting and improvising as needed while maintaining its relevance and effectiveness.
Upon completing the course (including attending at least 6 of the 7 live calls or a makeup call) and demonstrating competence with the lessons, you'll receive authorization to say you're teaching The Balanced Runner Foundations Lesson Series and will be listed as a teacher of the series on balancedrunner.com.
Look at The Balanced Runner System online running form course at
https://www.balancedrunner.com/online-training-camps
Questions we'll address in the course include:
How does running work?
How can you distinguish functional vs. dysfunctional movement in running?
What kinds of ATM lessons are relvant to running?
What kinds of lessons address which movement challenges in running?
What are the necessary compnents of every lesson directed at running?
What lessons might create confusion about running despite being relevant for other types of movement?
What are the most frequent causes of various common running injuries, and how do lessons address them?
What facilitates good breathing in running?
What are the similarities and differences between running and walking?
What is the hierarchy of learning that governs lesson order for improving running?
What you'll get in this course:
> 7 Zoom calls with Jae to discuss the lessons, plus one extra makeup call if needed for anyone who missed one of the calls
> recordings of the Zoom calls for later review
> a followup Zoom call with Jae in August to discuss teaching experiences and answer questions. (Date and Time TBD to suit participants' schedules)
> lifetime access to The Balanced Runner System online running form course, including full-length lessons, shorter "refresher" versions of the lessons, webinars on related topics (running form, warming up , cooling down, cross training, stretching, and footwear), other supportive resources for running, a community forum, and biweekly Zoom support calls with Jae ($240 value with professional discount)
> transcripts and key teaching points for all the lessons in the series
> a dedicated community forum for ATM series teachers to discuss the lessons, teaching strategies, and how to help runners
Prerequisites:
1. You must be a certified Feldenkrais, Anat Baniel Method, MBS, or related practitioner qualified to teach Feldenkrais lessons, or be enrolled in such a training and have passed or be about to pass your ATM teaching practicum. (If you haven't yet passed your practicum, authorization to teach The Balanced Runner Foundations Lessons will be contingent upon passing it.)
2. You must be able to run for at least 5 minutes at a time, as the course requires about 5 minutes of running before and again after each ATM lesson.
3. You must be able to commit to running or run/walking a comfortable distance at a comfortable pace at least twice a week during the course.
4. A running, sports, or fitness background is helpful but not absolutely necessary.
Session dates and times:
Please note that because North America and the UK/Europe shift into summer time on different dates, the session times for March may be different for you than those in April and May.
18 March, 7:30 pm GMT/3:30pm EDT
25 March, 7:30 pm GMT/3:30 pm EDT
15 April, 7:30 pm BST/2:30 pm EDT
22 April, 7:30 pm BST/2:30 pm EDT
29 April, 7:30 pm BST/2:30 pm EDT
6 May, 7:30 pm BST/2:30 pm EDT
13 May, 7:30 pm BST/2:30 pm EDT
If you're in a different time zone than those listed, check your session times using www.timeanddate.com.
Teacher Bio:
Jae Gruenke is a Feldenkrais practitioner, running technique expert, and founder of The Balanced Runner™. Since 2003 she has helped thousands of runners and triathletes from beginner to Olympian become pain-free, efficient, and fast. Her elite clients have included Olympian distance runners Jen Rhines and Sonia Samuels, Olympic medalist and Ironman winner Lisa Norden, multi-record-setting ultramarathoner William Sichel, and Susan Marshall, winner of the 2022 Self-Transcendence 3100 (the world’s longest race). She offers online courses, video analysis, and individual online work as well as in-person lessons in Salt Lake City, Utah. Learn more at www.balancedrunner.com.
Registration Deadline: Monday 16 March 2026