Uri Vardi has specialized in the Feldenkrais Method, for which he received the 1999 UW-Madison Arts Institute Faculty Development Award. He completed a Feldenkrais Practitioners Training and was certified by the Feldenkrais Guild of North America and by the International Feldenkrais Federation as a Feldenkrais practitioner in 2003. For the last five years, Vardi has created a new course at UW - Madison: "Feldenkrais for Performing Artists". In 2012, Vardi was awarded the UW Art Institute Emily Mead Baldwin Award to create a Program for Somatic Education in the Performing Arts at UW-Madison.