The five-year training consists of a Foundation Year plus a Four-Year Training Program. The In-Service character gives a hands-on, practical accent. The length of the program allows for personal growth, widening understanding, and deepening teaching, remedial, and therapeutic skills. Among the requirements that are essential for anyone wishing to enroll in the program are:

• A desire to move and to move on
• The desire and ability to implement and follow through on an individual study program, which will include practicing and developing skills, carrying out creative projects, reading, and inner researching
• The interest and openness to actively explore, in thought and movement, ideals of the multi-dimensional human being

It is not necessary to be an outstanding athlete to join the program. Former and present trainees vary widely in their experience, abilities, and ages ranging from 20 to 77. They are united in their desire to pursue a study of spacially oriented movement. Each person is encouraged to enter into each activity to the extent that they wish to be challenged.

Each cohort of Level I meets three times each year, for five days in the spring and fall on either the East Coast, West Coast, or in Texas, and for ten days each summer at Hudson UpRiver campus.  Graduation of IS-9 will take place in August, 2011.  Graduation of IS-10 will take place in August, 2014.

The next Level I In-Service Training Program will begin in September and October, 2009 for both the East and West groups and in January, 2010 for the Central group.

The next In-Service Training Program (IS-10) beginning 2009-2010

The full five-year program trains students in the discipline of Spacial Dynamics®, which will benefit all adults in their personal and professional lives: business executives, teachers, therapists, artists, athletes, community leaders, and consultants. It will also enhance the effectiveness of academic and specialty teachers, as well as parents and all those interested in gaining a greater understanding of the relationship between movement, spacial development, group dynamics, learning, and remedial processes.

Goals of the part-time training program are to develop:

• The quality of each participant's own movement
• The ability to perceive the effect of movements on oneself and others
• An understanding of the anatomy of movement
• An understanding of the role of movement in the spacial development that takes place from child to adult
• The ability to teach and apply Spacial Dynamics® principles in any given activity
• The capacity to recognize, understand, and work remedially with problems that stem from incomplete or interrupted physical-spacial coordination
• An enhanced power of presence in social situations, and for presenting, speaking, and working in leadership or public roles
• The ability to teach and apply Spacial Dynamics® principles in any given activity, from individual exercises to team building for group dynamics

The course includes Spacial Dynamics® exercises, Bothmer Gymnastics®, sports, indoor and outdoor games, track and field, activities for the classroom, dances, tumbling and acrobatics, stave exercises, stave fencing, circus arts and juggling. Also included are posture exercises, movement observation and analysis, teaching methods, therapeutic techniques, group dynamics, spacial ergonomics, and remedial applications.

The course will draw upon the ideas and practical applications of such thinkers as George Adams, Albert Einstein, M.C. Escher, Edward T. Hall, August Nitschke, Jean Piaget, Johannes Rohen, Theodor Schwenk, Rudolf Steiner, and Jaap van der Wal.

The tuition is $2,500 per school year. A tuition contract is completed at the beginning of each training year. A loan plan allows students to pay on a monthly, quarterly, or biannual basis. It must be stressed that the course fee is calculated for the year rather than per session. No refunds can be given for sessions that are not attended.

A nonrefundable, one-time deposit of $100 must accompany applications for the course, which is in addition to the tuition cost. Each student will be responsible for his or her board and lodging, however, the Spacial Dynamics Institute will endeavor to help students find board and lodging options at a reasonable cost.

A medical statement, to be signed by a physician, and a waiver and release form, must be completed by each applicant before the first session.

The decision to continue or terminate the training, from either side, is made at the end of the first year.

The full five-year Training Program does not qualify students to train others as teachers or therapists.