Congress Schedule for Tuesday, 23 August 2022
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7.00 - 8.00h (7 - 8am) | MORNING ACTIVITIES
H 3007 | Caroline Blackshaw | Smart Yoga
H 3012 | Joseph Weissenberg | Tai Chi and Soul Room Meditations
| Otto Vogt | „Being with and caring for“ – an hour of experiencing mindfulness
| Nina Rotner | Choir-Hour-NOW
| David Young | Daily Evening Meditation
| Elizabeth Johnson | Evening Yoga: Moon Salutation (Chandra Namaskar) with AT, Dart, and Framework for Integration applications
| Cassie Maloney | Playing with Balance
| Elizabeth Buonomo | Scottish Country Dance
9.00 - 11.00h (9am - 11am) | CONTINUOUS LEARNING & HOW-TO
H 3025 | Cathy Madden | 21st Century Integrative Practice Skills
H 2037 | Michael Frederick and Carol Prentice | Alexander Technique 101 – Debunking the Myths
H 0104 – Auditorium | Peter Grunwald | Alexander's Principles: Improving eyesight and vision naturally – living life without glasses or contacts – discover the tools of inhibition and direction which are key to this process
H 3005 | Priska Gauger-Schelbert | Applied Alexander Technique in companies and institutions – "the Yes to the Unknown"
MA144 | Jeremy Chance | ATSuccess – 12 Point Plan
MA 850 | The Constructive Teaching Centre | Back to Basics – Classical Carrington Procedures
H 3002 | Wolfgang Weiser | Balancing your space
H 3013 | Caren Bayer | Circularity in Motion
MA 548 | Anthony Kingsley | Co-regulation & Self-regulation: The Alexander Relationship
H 3012 | Robyn Avalon | Crafting the Container: The Art of Group Teaching & Crafting Alexander Experiences
H 3003A | Robin John Simmons | Dart Procedures For You And Your Teaching
H 3006 | Paolo Frigoli | Hands-on Communication
H 0111 | Anikó Ball | How to promote and teach the Alexander Technique to the dental profession (Remote over Zoom) ????
MA 651 | Richard Brennan and Annedore Kleist | Identifying and letting go of 'Alexander Habits'
H 3007 | Jamie McDowell | Identifying what a Teacher needs to be able to do
MA 851 | Gal Ben-Or | Keeping it simple
H 7112 | Ulli Pawlas | Lying down, Sitting down, moving forward and up…
H 0106 | Rosa Luisa Rossi | Secrets of Successful Project Planning Revealed! How to catch people’s attention and promote your work
H 2038 | David Moore | Teaching the Alexander technique through yoga
H 0112 | Malcolm Balk | The Art of Running
MA 642 | Avi Granit | The Challenge of Maintaining Direction while teaching
H 3008 | John Nicholls | The Grey Zone
MA 742 | Dan Armon | The quality of meeting
MA 544 | Soile Lahdenperä | The use of Inhibition to create spontaneity: From stillness to moving
H 3004 | Sarah Barker | Touch: Learning and Teaching
MA 644 | Tommy Thompson | Touching Presence
MA 648 | Peter Nobes | What is ‘unity’? What did FM mean by a ‘co-ordinated, indivisible whole’?
H 2036 | Robert Britton | Wholeness and Hands On Teaching Skills
MA 141 | Penelope Easten | Why don’t dogs think “let my neck be free”?
11.30 - 12.45h (11.30am - 12.45pm) | KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Event Details
This Keynote-Plenary Session has already taken place.
Dr. Philip Bull
United Kingdom
Hypermobility and the Alexander Technique
Hypermobility is a term that neither FM nor the first generation teachers would have known. It is only in this century that Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders (EDS/HSD) have become better understood and recognized in the medical field as genetic conditions for which there is no cure. Many people living with these conditions spend their entire lives managing their symptoms and are increasingly seeking AT for relief. We can potentially make a big difference in their experience by providing strategies for better postural support, calming the nervous system, and improving proprioception and balance, all contributing to their quality of life.
The AT can be of immense help to this community but unfortunately, we have heard stories from those with EDS/HSD who have had negative experiences with AT practitioners who were unaware how hypermobility can affect a person and so made no allowances for it. These teachers inadvertently over-released the hypermobile students’ already lax joints and left them with a loss of both tone and internal integrated support. They felt disconnected and their painful symptoms worsened.
Dr. Bull speaks for 50 minutes outlining how hypermobility may affect not only a person’s joints but also their internal organs, their proprioceptive sensitivity and their nervous system.
The lecture will be followed by a Q&A, a 45 minutes lunch break, and a →45-minute panel discussion with Ann Rodiger, Julia Woodman, and David Moore from 13.30-14.15h (1.30-2.15pm).
Dr. Philip Bull: Joint Hypermobility Syndrome – an Introduction
Flyer PoTS – Deutsch: POTS und andere Dysautonomien Deutschland
Andy Smith: An Investigation into Hypermobility
Julia Woodman BSc, PhD, MSTAT is Head of Training at Edinburgh Alexander Training School. She is also Chair of the STAT Research Group and was a core member of the study team for the large randomised controlled clinical, trial, ATLAS. Julia is keen to foster the continued development of Alexander teaching and training to ensure its suitability for everyone – including those living with hypermobility. She teaches one-to-one, groups and organisations, mostly in Scotland, and qualified from the Manchester Alexander Technique training school in 2006. Julia has published widely for both academic and general audiences; her conference presentations include for the Ehlers-Danlos Society.
About Dr. Philip Bull
Dr. Philip Bull is a Consultant Rheumatologist, joint hypermobility specialist, mindfulness champion and bass guitar player. Since retiring full time from the NHS (National Health Service) in 2014 he runs two private clinics and is involved in medical education. Current positions: Consultant Rheumatologist, The Chaucer Hospital, Canterbury & The One Hospital, Ashford Medical Advisor and Trustee, HMSA (Hypermobility Syndromes Association).
He is also involved in Education for Medical Students from Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ Medical School, Junior Doctors and GP’s at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation NHS Trust. He is the Education lead for the East Kent Community Rheumatology Nursing service.
Special interests: his main specialty interest is in the Joint Hypermobility Syndromes. He is the instigator of the Kent Hypermobility Network, working with the HMSA charitable trust to improve services for hypermobile patients through education using existing resources. Other interests include gout, soft tissue rheumatism, fibromyalgia and chronic pain.He has experience in medical leadership and works as a mentor on the IQ leadership program for Rheumatologists.
He has a particular interest in mindfulness and how it applies to the wellbeing of health service employees, working in association with the government’s Mindful Initiative leadership team.He has an ongoing interest in the Alexander Technique and has written educational articles and organized events with the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique.
See also: Philip Bull – Presenter Detail Page
Keynote-Plenary Session
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
11:30 h - 12:45 h (11.30am-12.45pm)
Main Building
Floor: EG (ground floor)
Room: H 0104 – Auditorium
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CATEGORIES
Connections to other Modalities/Techniques
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WORKSHOP STYLE
Fully Practical
Lecture
OPEN FOR
Teachers||Trainees||Everyone
13.30 - 14.15h (1.30pm - 2.15pm) | PANEL DISCUSSION
Event Details
This Panel Discussion has already taken place.
Dr. Philip Bull, Ann Rodiger, Julia Woodman and David Moore
Australia, US,
United Kingdom
Panel Discussion: Hypermobility and the Alexander Technique
To follow Dr Philip Bull presentation Ann Rodiger, Julia Woodman, and David Moore will discuss the practice of working with people with hypermobility. This discussion afterwards follows directly on from what Philip has said and will answer questions as to how that impacts our teaching.
About Dr. Philip Bull, Ann Rodiger, Julia Woodman and David Moore
Julia Woodman BSc, PhD, MSTAT is Head of Training at Edinburgh Alexander Training School. She is also Chair of the STAT Research Group and was a core member of the study team for the large randomised controlled clinical, trial, ATLAS. Julia is keen to foster the continued development of Alexander teaching and training to ensure its suitability for everyone – including those living with hypermobility. She teaches one-to-one, groups and organisations, mostly in Scotland, and qualified from the Manchester Alexander Technique training school in 2006. Julia has published widely for both academic and general audiences; her conference presentations include for the Ehlers-Danlos Society.
Ann Rodiger is the Founder and Director of the Balance Arts Center in New York City. She has nearly 40 years of teaching the Alexander Technique. Her teaching draws from her knowledge from teaching the BAC Teacher Training Course and private lessons in the US and abroad as well as her knowledge of Labanotation, Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Yoga, meditation and various dance techniques. She has developed the BAC Alexander Technique Teacher Training Program and substantial programming for performing artists. She has also adapted the Alexander principles to work for those with hypermobility and Ehlers Danlos Syndromes. Rodiger teaches internationally in Germany, Belgium, Greece, and Turkey. The Balance Arts Center is a NYC Women and Minority Owned Business and a thriving place for the community to teach, share knowledge, and perform.
Ann’s interest in the Alexander work began when she was studying dance at The Ohio State University. Through the work she was able to find a sense of balance and stability that was previously unavailable due to her hypermobility. Training with the Murrays while Ann was teaching at the U. of Illinois, Urbana allowed the AT to become a more important part of her life. She was pursuing the AT, dance performance and teaching, and meditation simultaneously.
After teaching dance at the U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the U. of Hawaii-Manoa Ann moved to NYC to continue her dancing and performing. She taught at the City College of NY and Labanotation at the Juilliard School. She also began a private practice in the Alexander Technique which focused on performing artists, particularly dancers and singers. She also continued to pursue meditation.
Following a 5-year break from NYC living in an ashram, she restarted her private AT practice and began the BAC AT Teacher Training program. To date she has graduated nearly 40 students from a Balance Arts Center Teacher AT Training program.
The BAC has grown from Fulton Street, through 28th St. to 30th Street in NYC to an 11 room studio space that includes small and large teaching rooms and a performance space. The BAC serves as home base to the BAC AT Teacher training program, Ann’s private practice and as a NYC community base for the AT. She produces and co-produces the AT “Freedom to” conferences in NYC as well as other workshops and classes.
Ann also travels to teach abroad in Germany, Belgium, Greece, and Turkey. She is also a Teaching Artist for the summer Juilliard program for High School singers and teaches at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Summer Festival. She is a member of the American Society of the Alexander Technique and served as Treasurer for AmSAT.
David Moore is the director of the School for F.M. Alexander Studies in Melbourne which he established in 1998. He is the author of “Smart Yoga: Apply the Alexander Technique to enhance your practice, prevent injury and increase body awareness.”
Besides training teachers in the technique and running a private practice in Melbourne, he has been running regular workshops and trainings in Europe, the UK, China and Taiwan, both for Alexander and yoga teachers.
Ann Rodiger
@ arodiger@balanceartscenter.com
David Moore
@ info@alexanderschool.edu.au
Julia Woodman
@ alexander@julia-woodman.co.uk
See also: Dr. Philip Bull, Ann Rodiger, Julia Woodman and David Moore – Presenter Detail Page
Panel Discussion
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
13:30 h - 14:15 h (1.30pm-2.15pm)
Main Building
Floor: EG (ground floor)
Room: H 0104 – Auditorium
???? Live-Stream | Recording
OPEN FOR
Teachers||Trainees||Everyone
14.30 - 15.45h (2.30pm - 3.45pm) | WORKSHOPS Medium
- MA 141 | Joseph Weissenberg | AT and MOVEMENT BALANCE – LISTENING TRAINING
H 3007 | Susanne Spahn | Decolonize Thinking – Anti-Racism and its importance for diversity
H 3004 | Erik Bendix and Ease on Skis | Ease on Skis: try it out indoors without snow or ski equipment- H 3002 | Robyn Avalon | Listening Council
H 3012 | Irma Hesz | Lösungen selbst entwickeln lassen – Let the student develop the solutions
H 3013 | Sandra Dager and David Anderson | Posture, Rhythm and Resonance: Kinesthetic Energy Patterns and the Alexander Technique
H 3003A | Michael Vogler | Talking less, getting more? An experimental Workshop
H 0111 | Harry Hobbs | Teaching Young Actors: Creating a Safe Container
H 3025 | Richard Casebow | The Face of Decision
| Kathryn Armour | A Singing Lesson in a Bag
| Raquel Cavalcanti | Altogether, One After the Other: A Lecture-Performance Exploring Dilemmas Faced by a Brazilian AT Teacher
| Penelope Easten | Finding a True Stop, Clear Choice, and Amazing Coordination
| Patrick Johnson | Games and Body Puzzles with Contact Improvisation and Alexander Technique
| Robyn Avalon | How to Create a Radically Successful (and fun) Group Intro Workshop
| Tommy Thompson | Making Peace With Yourself, So You Can Be At Peace With Yourself
| Sarah Bonner-Morgan | On not making a sound…
| Jana Tift | Standing in the Light: Teaching Presence to Performers and Speakers
| Hella Linkmeyer | Two Films About Walter Carrington
| Clara Sandler | Voice & Movement, a Flowing Integration
14.45 - 17.15h (2.45pm - 5.15pm) | WORKSHOPS XL
H 2038 | Bob Lada and Rachelle Tsachor | Inner Quiet: Decanting the Overwhelm in Trauma
H 3005 | Michael Clausnizer | Alexander Technique for Musicians 1
H 3008 | Torsten Konrad | Freeing our readiness potential for being and creating in movement- MA144 | Jeremy Chance | Hearing Neuroscience While Getting Turns
H 2037 | Catherine Kettrick, Sarah Barker and Joe Kaplan | Teaching the Alexander Technique: What Do I Need to Know and How Do I Know I Know It?
H 2036 | Elke Mastwijk | The forgotten anatomy of the CranioSacral system
16.45 - 17.15h (4.45pm - 5.15pm) | WORKSHOPS Mini
H 3013 | Jennifer Mizenko | The ABC's of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion)
16.00 - 17.15h (4 - 5.15pm) | WORKSHOPS Medium
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| Joseph Weissenberg | AT and MOVEMENT BALANCE – LISTENING TRAINING
| Susanne Spahn | Decolonize Thinking – Anti-Racism and its importance for diversity
| Erik Bendix and Ease on Skis | Ease on Skis: try it out indoors without snow or ski equipment
| Robyn Avalon | Listening Council
| Irma Hesz | Lösungen selbst entwickeln lassen – Let the student develop the solutions
| Sandra Dager and David Anderson | Posture, Rhythm and Resonance: Kinesthetic Energy Patterns and the Alexander Technique
| Michael Vogler | Talking less, getting more? An experimental Workshop
| Harry Hobbs | Teaching Young Actors: Creating a Safe Container
| Richard Casebow | The Face of Decision
H 3012 | Kathryn Armour | A Singing Lesson in a Bag
H 3007 | Raquel Cavalcanti | Altogether, One After the Other: A Lecture-Performance Exploring Dilemmas Faced by a Brazilian AT Teacher- MA 141 | Penelope Easten | Finding a True Stop, Clear Choice, and Amazing Coordination
H 3003A | Patrick Johnson | Games and Body Puzzles with Contact Improvisation and Alexander Technique- H 3002 | Robyn Avalon | How to Create a Radically Successful (and fun) Group Intro Workshop
- H 6124 | Tommy Thompson | Making Peace With Yourself, So You Can Be At Peace With Yourself
H 3025 | Sarah Bonner-Morgan | On not making a sound…
MA 841 | Jana Tift | Standing in the Light: Teaching Presence to Performers and Speakers
H 0111 | Hella Linkmeyer | Two Films About Walter Carrington
H 3004 | Clara Sandler | Voice & Movement, a Flowing Integration
17.15 - 18.00h (5.15pm - 6pm) | OPEN SPACE
Get a coffee, hang out with friends, do a work-exchange, take a walk through Tiergarten or along the Landwehrkanal or the Spree river.
Or find a quiet place to be alone and re-charge. We will have a couple of rooms designated as “quiet rooms” just for that.
18.00 - 19.00h (6 - 7pm) | EVENING ACTIVITIES
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| Caroline Blackshaw | Smart Yoga
| Joseph Weissenberg | Tai Chi and Soul Room Meditations
MA 141 | Otto Vogt | „Being with and caring for“ – an hour of experiencing mindfulness
H 0111 | Nina Rotner | Choir-Hour-NOW
H 3004 | David Young | Daily Evening Meditation
H 3007 | Elizabeth Johnson | Evening Yoga: Moon Salutation (Chandra Namaskar) with AT, Dart, and Framework for Integration applications
MA144 | Cassie Maloney | Playing with Balance
H 3005 | Elizabeth Buonomo | Scottish Country Dance
20.00 - 20.30h (8pm - 8.30pm) | BOB's CORNER
Event Details
This Bob's Corner has already taken place.
Robert Britton
CA,
USA
Bob's Corner & ATLP
Tonight special guest:
The Alexander Technique Liberation Project (ATLP) will present their work and their rich array of Diversity-Equity-Inclusion (DEI) workshops.- Latest updates on the program, housekeeping issues and administrative information.
- Funny/amazing fact about the day
- Have fun with the German language, a segment led by Andrea Julia Roháč. Because, when in Germany…learn some German!
A few minutes every day with professional actress, fabulous reading voice and brilliant teacher Andrea Julia Roháč, to have fun, try your throat on some new sounds and master easily some useful words in German. Learn how your favourite AT terms translate and sound in German.
→ Andrea’s Profile
About Robert Britton
Robert Britton had his first lessons in the Alexander Technique with Frank Ottiwell in 1974.
He began training to be an Alexander Technique Teacher with Frank Ottiwell and Giora Pinkas in 1975 at the American Center for the Alexander Technique – San Francisco, and graduated in 1978. In addition to his private practice in San Francisco, he has been a professor of the Alexander Technique at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music since 1984.
He has helped train Alexander Technique Teachers since 1989. He regularly teaches at Alexander Technique teacher training schools in Berlin and Hamburg.
He served as chairman of the American Society for the Alexander Technique from 1997 to 1999, and he also was a long-time faculty member of the Bay Area Summer Opera Training Institute. Bob was one of the directors of the 2011 9th International Congress of the Alexander Technique in Lugano Switzerland, and continues to serve on the Board of the Alexander Technique Congress Association.
He was awarded the George S. Sarlo award for Excellence in Teaching in Colleges and Universities in Northern California in 2012, and served as the Department Chairman of “The Complete Musician” Department at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
See also: Robert Britton – Presenter Detail Page
Bob's Corner
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
20:00 h - 20:30 h (8.00pm-8.30pm)
Main Building
Floor: EG (ground floor)
Room: H 0104 – Auditorium
???? Live-Stream | Recording
OPEN FOR
Teachers||Trainees||Everyone
20.30 - 22.00h (8.30 - 10pm) | EVENING ENTERTAINMENT
H 0104 – Auditorium | Rossella Buono and Duncan Knowles | AT Poetry Night ????
Cocktail Bar Area | Cocktail Bar | Cocktail Bar
H 0112 | Erik Bendix and Phillip Nessel | Movie Night: A Peek at the 'Ease on Skis' Movie
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27/08
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