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Opening Keynote – Releasing the Actor: The AT as an essential component of Actor Training
Presentation by Gemma Bodinetz, the Director and CEO of The Lir, National Academy of Dramatic Arts at Trinity College Dublin and Sue Mythen, the Head of Movement at The Lir.
...Presenter(s):
Sue Mythen
Gemma Bodinetz
- The O'Reilly Hall
Keynote-Plenary Session
7:00pm-9:00pm
Places Booked:
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900
Hatha Yoga Flow
Yoga Every Morning...
Presenter(s):
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00am-8:00am every morning
Places Booked:
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25
Priming Tai Chi Moves with Heart Energy – 15 students – 5 morning sessions 7-8 am
In this course, Tai Chi moves become your path to connecting with heart energy and priming each movement. Here, movement priming isn’t just about preparing the mind and body but creating an emotional and intentional connection to a specific, desired state. Unlike gradual development, this form of priming opens heart...
Presenter(s):
Joseph Weissenberg, PhD
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00am-8:00am every morning
Fully Booked
Places Booked:
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15
Morning Run
Every day for the run. Easy peasy…folks always have a good time. We leave at 7 and done by 8. Meet in front of The Conservatory, O’Reilly Hall
...Presenter(s):
Malcolm Balk
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00am-8:00am
Places Booked:
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25
Keynote – Robert Fripp Presentation
The Six Principles Of The Performance Event.The key here is that the Performance Event wishes to be.In my field, how is it that Music comes into our world?The noumenal to the phenomenal, from Silence into sound…Introduction by Erin Wigger
...Presenter(s):
Robert Fripp
- The O'Reilly Hall
Keynote-Plenary Session
9:00am -10:15am
Places Booked:
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900
Observations on semiflexion and hands-on work
We will be looking at some of the fundamentals involved in teaching, especially regarding the freedom of the joints for semiflexion and the importance of how our hands and arms are connected to the whole of ourselves. Semiflexion (aka ‘monkey’, a position of mechanical advantage) is of course fundamental to...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Jean Fischer
Regina Stratil
- Room 23, H Skeffington Building C102A
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Fully Booked
Places Booked:
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16
Freeing The Natural Voice
Each of us has inside of us a speaking voice that, through a natural pitch range of 3-4 octaves, can clearly express the widest gamut of emotion and the subtlest of thought. So often though, that ‘natural’ voice gets diminished through social conditioning and education. Speaking becomes a chore or...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Geordie MacMinn
- Exchange Room, O'Reilly Hall
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Going Up
‘When I am teaching you as I do now, I am able to convey to you what I want to convey because as I touch you and guide you with my hands in carrying out my instructions, I myself am going up! up! up!’ (p 51 of The Expanding Self...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
John Nicholls
- Room 24, University Club, Cedar/Cypress Room
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Fully Booked
Places Booked:
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25
Supercharging Creativity: What We Can Do to Support Actors and Musicians
Let’s explore the best ways to teach the Alexander Technique so that actors and musicians find solutions with creativity and spontaneity. Whether they realize it or not, their bodies must respond fully to the script or the score. The greater their ease and sense of whole self, the greater the...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Sarah Barker
- Room 37, Health Sciences A003
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Learning from each other
Much of what we know about teaching the AT comes from the practical hands-on work we have received from our teacher trainers, from the work we may have done on them, and from the work we have exchanged with our fellow students and colleagues. The practice of work exchange represents...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Paolo Frigoli
- Room 14, H Skeffington Building A006
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
The Art of Running
Take your understanding of use in walking and running to a new level and enjoy the practical benefits of this knowledge! Apply Alexander principles to walking and running with a view of thinking ‘outside the box’. This includes a consideration of movement in 3 planes, working with wedges and other...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Malcolm Balk
Lindsay Newitter
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
The 5 Postural Joints
Alexander’s “directions” to the Self can be analysed through the 5 sets of critical “postural” joints they anatomically depend upon. “There is no such thing as a right position, but there is such a thing as a right direction.” – FM Alexander FM discovered that all mammals have a primary...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Jeremy Chance
- Room 13, H Skeffington Building C001
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
‘It’s always the teacher’s fault’ and ‘You are here to do the impossible’
These are two of the late Patrick Macdonald’s mottos that most influence my own teaching. These phrases embody the essence of the Alexander Technique by focusing on the teacher’s on-going development. In this workshop we will explore the deeper meaning of Macdonald’s mottos, which clarify the division of the roles...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Avi Granit
- Room 11, Newman Building B108
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Embodied Awareness: Experiencing our Inherent Coordination with ATI-LA
Up Your Teaching & Hands on Skills! Experience ways to Observe, Inhibit, and Direct with our Senior Faculty. Break out of the mould, think differently. We are here to share our practice and learn with you. Refine how you work on your Self (stimulus / response); expand your hands-on skills...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Babette Markus
Meg Jolley
Alexander Training Institute of Los Angeles
Frances Marsden
- Room 8, O'Brien Centre E2.18
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Spatial Dimension in Movement
This workshop will focus on building direction and how we can meet this dynamic inner strength and centring, to transfer this power and freedom to our students.
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Presenter(s):
Caren Bayer
- Room 18, Agricultural Centre G01
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Attention and Appreciation, Depth and Discernment, Connection and Surprise
Lucia Walker, with Sharyn West and Violeta Winograd, will offer in the two sessions of continuous learning: information about the design of our nervous system, clarifying our understanding and experience of ‘psychophysical unity’ opportunities to wake up our discerning observer of self and to practise the quality and movement of...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Sharyn West
Violeta Winograd
Lucia Walker
- Room 31, Sutherland School L248
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Being in Touch with Our Hands
This workshop is about getting more deeply in touch with our hands than ever before. We can explore both old and new ways of working so we can find out our teaching habits and expand our repertoire in the use of our hands. We will explore our hands and get...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Refia Sacks
- Room 1, O'Brien Centre H0.12
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Getting the Work out in the World (OR, Teaching Skills for making the Work more accessible)
Join this highly experiential CL designed to offer you the basic tools and technical skills for introducing the Work to groups in an interactive, non-hierarchical style which allows students to quickly understand and experience what the Work has to offer them – leading them to want to study more (and...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Robyn Avalon
- Room 10, Newman Building B109
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Walk with grace and power! Embody through the myofascial lines from your head to your toes.
Our goal with AT is to use awareness and thinking to re-coordinate our bodies so that movement patterns such as breathing, bending or walking come about in a better way. When this ‘just happens’ it can feel almost magical. In his early writings, Alexander wrote of walking as a ‘primary...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Penelope Easten
- Room 9, Newman Building B110
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Fully Booked
Places Booked:
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25
The Critical Moment, Inhibition, Faulty Sensory Appreciation-and Other Alexander Technique Myths
I began studying the Technique in 1973 with Marj Barstow, started teaching in 1976, and continued studying with Marj until her death in 1995. I have taught private lessons, group classes, workshops for diverse groups, people ranging in age from their eighties to preteens, in the USA, Europe and Japan,...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Catherine Kettrick
- Room 27, Sutherland School L243
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Growing Curiosity: Exploring Principles through Inquiry and Improvisation
When we follow our curiosity as teachers and learners, we engage in an ongoing investigation that is rich and full of surprises! As we foster an approach that is led by curiosity, we promote our students’ self-sufficiency and agency. In this CL, I will share how I encourage experiential learning...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Ariel Weiss
- Room 3, O'Brien Centre H2.12
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Flow and Inhibition with the Collaborating8
Grounded in inhibition, flow offers dynamic, moment-to-moment ways of embodying and teaching the fluid, ever shifting nature of our Alexander work. In our workshop you will experience 8 different complementary explorations on this theme through our lively, growth-producing process of collaboration. May it inspire your own collaboration with colleagues. About...
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Presenter(s):
Barbara Kent
Rebecca Tuffey
Judith C Stern
Hope Martin
Kim Jessor
Joan Frost
Melissa Brown
Collaborating8: Evolving ACAT’s Legacy
- Room 5, O'Brien Centre H2.40
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Teaching Children & Young Adults
Join The Developing Self team and explore some of the specialized skills that open up the doors to teaching children and young adults. In these two sessions you will try out some of the techniques we have found very effective, and fun, during 30 years of teaching Alexander in Primary...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Sue Merry
Judith Kleinman
- Room 30, Sutherland School L247
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Fully Booked
Places Booked:
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25
Move Your Self
During our time together we will explore the Principles of the Alexander Technique through movement. Through the modalities of Developmental Movement, Bartenieff Fundamentals and Gaga, we will use our bodies as a laboratory to experiment, discover, and deepen our use of the Alexander Technique seeking the best use of our...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Jennifer Mizenko
- Room 21, Agriculture Centre 1.19
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Bridging Generations – Teaching and Practice
This workshop will explore how our individual and collective practice of the Alexander Technique is connected to a web of support which links us to all the teachers who have come before us. Together we will playfully explore practical procedures, engaged as templates for learning, provided by FM Alexander and...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Nanette Walsh
- Room 2, O'Brien Centre H1.12
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Mastering the Business of being an Alexander Technique Teacher
How do I Create a Successful Business? ‘Your attitude is everything – it will determine your success’ A personal enquiry into the purpose, motivations and intentions for teaching the Alexander Technique. An exploration of the journey towards becoming a successful Alexander Technique teacher. We will share and draw from our...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Anja Myrsep
Priska Gauger-Schelbert
- Room 34, Health Sciences A007
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Everyday Jazz: Kindness, Curiosity, Play
What happens when you centre kindness, curiosity and play as you integrate the Alexander Technique directly into what you do each day – for yourself and for your students? Weaving these elements deeply in your Alexander practice aligns with the neurology of how we are designed to learn, facilitating pleasurable...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Cathy Madden
- Room 12, Newman Building J109
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Creating a Safe Place for Listening
Alexander once said, ‘It is no use giving orders whilst you have an idea at the back of your mind of doing something’. This workshop will explore the profound and amazing results which can happen during an Alexander lesson when non-doing is paramount. Non-doing hands can be one of the...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Kecia Chin
Richard Brennan
- Room 20, Agriculture Centre 1.16
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Empowering Musicians to Make Great Music with Ease, Love, and Joy
As a professional violinist and coach for musicians, Jennifer specialises in helping musicians overcome pain, performance anxiety, and other obstacles to personal fulfilment and artistic success. This CL session, based on her book, Make Great Music with Ease! The Secret to Smarter Practice, Confident Performance, and Living a Happier Life,...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Jennifer Roig-Francolí
- Room 26, Sutherland School L242
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
How to Teach What’s in FM’s Books
I love FM’s books. Every time I re-read them, I find new ideas, things I had forgotten, new ways of understanding the work. Why do many of us find them difficult? Is it because we’re not teaching what’s in the books, and therefore, maybe, not teaching what FM was teaching?...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Peter Nobes
- Room 32, Sutherland School L249
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Spontaneity in action
Deepen your awareness to enhance spontaneity in your actions. Performers need both of those qualities. As Alexander teachers, we can help them to integrate the essential aspects of awareness and spontaneity into their practice and performance. My background lies in contemporary dance as performer, choreographer and teacher. Over the years,...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Soile Lahdenperä
- Room 28, Sutherland School L244
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
I have a question
Maybe I have many questions . . . How do I really give directions? What is this ‘giving’, ‘ordering’, ‘thinking’? What exactly happens inside me, my head, my body, my body-mind? How can I become conscious of this? Can all this take place in complete silence? Should it? Is verbal...
Presenter(s):
Gal Ben-Or
- Room 29, Sutherland School L246
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Hands, Wrists, Fingers: Creative Health
The physical dimensions of hands—coordination, relaxation, dexterity, speed, accuracy, and freedom from pain—are important and merit close study. While acknowledging these dimensions, ‘Hands, Wrists, Fingers’ focuses on a broader perspective that includes cultural dimensions both conscious and unconscious, encompassing language, symbol, ritual, curiosity, playfulness, and mindfulness. Through a wealth of...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Pedro de Alcantara
- Room 19, Newman Building C215
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Fully Booked
Places Booked:
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25
AT meets Yoga, Tai chi, Qigong and other forms of gentle movement.
The Alexander Technique is more and more presenting itself as an essential element or a missing link for many practitioners of different forms of movement. Let’s meet under the moderation of David Moore to share stories, creative solutions, experiences and questions. Please bring your own Yoga Mat.
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Presenter(s):
David Moore
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Simple and Effective: The Classical Carrington Approach
Join Us for a Unique, Hands-On Experience with CTC’s Continuous Learning Workshop Explore the classical hands-on teaching skills, procedures, and games developed by Walter Carrington, evolving from his close association with FM Alexander. Known for its high teacher-to-participant ratio, this entirely practical and experiential approach is the cornerstone of the...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Alan Philps
Duncan Knowles
Alice Olsher
Marta Barón
Michelle Cole
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Fully Booked
Places Booked:
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20
“Look Ma, No Hands!” How touch-free teaching improves everything (including your hands-on!)
In this workshop, I’ll show you how starting to learn the skills & strategies needed to teach the Alexander Technique without hands-on will immediately benefit you by: ● Accelerating the improvement of your Use,● Sharpening your observation skills,● Improving the sensitivity and effectiveness of your hands-on work and . ....
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Mio Morales
- Room 6, O'Brien Centre H2.32
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Teaching the Teachers – your eyesight, brain and vision questions answered
The Continuous Learning sessions Teaching the Teachers – your eyesight, brain and vision questions answered by Peter Grunwald are cancelled as he is unable to make it to Dublin. Please deselect this event in your Events List and take the opportunity to select some other event to attend.
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Presenter(s):
- Room 9, Newman Building B110
Continuous Learning
10.30am-12.30pm
Fully Booked
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The Habit of Identity in ‘Use of Self’ and Personal Narrative
Can we imagine a ‘train of change’, blowing its whistle as your signal to get on board? The train stops at every station, but only for a moment. If you tightly hold onto a fixed way of being, thinking, feeling, or perceiving, then as the train approaches one can refuse...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Tommy Thompson
- Room 38, Health Sciences B110/109
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Finding Our Place in Time: Experiments in the Art of Anticipation
You are living in the past. What you experience as the present is a result of several milliseconds to seconds of integrating sensory information. You are also living in the future. Your perceptions are shaped by your beliefs about what might be coming next. As the American psychologist, George Kelly...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
David M Mills
- Room 16, H Skeffington Building C104
Continuous Learning
10.30am-12.30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Continuous Learning Module in Dublin
Anthony describes his London School as a “Trauma Informed and Emotionally Literate Alexander Training”. In this Continuous Learning Module Anthony will explore some of his favourite themes: Does the idea of Psychophysical Unity explain how the impact of overwhelming distress, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE), and Trauma is revealed in the...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Anthony Kingsley
- Room 17, Newman Building G107
Continuous Learning
10.30am-12.30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Modern Means-Whereby for effective Teaching with Presence and Trust
Creating Connection, Clarity, and Safe Learning Spaces in the Alexander Technique This workshop explores the art of communication in AT lessons: Clarity, transparency, and a sense of safety are essential for successful learning in the Alexander Technique. When students feel met, understood, and supported, they can engage more openly —...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Elena Munding
Gabriele Fahrenkamp-Brandt
- Room 4, O'Brien Centre H2.20
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Panel Discussion: Bridging FM’s Theory with Practice
Part A. A Panel Discussion with 2nd generation teachers and Q&As. Panelists will be in conversation with the audience to share their learning experiences in training (and lessons) with 1st generation teachers. The focus for the discussion and Q&As will be sharing how each of the 1st gen teachers taught...
Presenter(s):
Nancy Forst Williamson
Ruth Rootberg
Anne Battye
Diana Devitt-Dawson
Antonia Del Mar
Peter Ribeaux
Alan Philps
Lucia Walker
John Nicholls
Catherine Kettrick
- The O'Reilly Hall
Panel Discussion
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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250
How the AT can Help People with Scoliosis and Back Pain
In this workshop you will get a deeper understanding of scoliosis; the causes, the myths, and the effects they have on people’s daily life while doing everyday activities. You will learn simple ways of help them to deal with working, standing, sitting, and a wide range of necessary movements. Many...
Presenter(s):
Kecia Chin
Richard Brennan
- Room 20, Agriculture Centre 1.16
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Dart Procedures Applied to AT teaching
The Procedures developed by Professor Dart were taught to me in 1970 by Walter Carrington during my training. I have been employing several of them in my Alexander Technique lessons since I qualified. They provide ways of working with the Alexander principles that are valuable and accessible to pupils of...
Presenter(s):
Robin John Simmons
- Room 37, Health Sciences A003
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Exploring foetal: moving from a place of security
This will be a practical workshop getting into a foetal position and rolling out of it into semi-supine. I will first demonstrate with one or two volunteers and then I would propose that we work in pairs to accompany each other through the procedure. Anyone who feels uncomfortable working on...
Presenter(s):
Merran Poplar
- Room 17, Newman Building G107
Workshop
02:00pm-03:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Musical direction: Irish music tune learning session
Irish traditional music has a great emotional depth, it tends to combine melancholic sadness with the expression of pure joy. It has a long history in which the people playing it have been able to express themselves and their culture. It unites players and listeners alike. It has that great...
Presenter(s):
Gilles Rullmann
- Room 34, Health Sciences A007
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
‘. . . at the stillpoint, there the dance is’ – working on Self
‘ . . . at the stillpoint, there the dance is,But neither arrest nor movementAnd do not call it fixity . . .’Working on SelfConnecting to Self – Coming to Quiet – Experiencing Relaxed and Alert Readiness In this practical 90-minute workshop, Dorothea will share a series of gentle activities...
Presenter(s):
Dorothea Magonet
- Room 38, Health Sciences B110/109
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Building Connection and Ensemble in the Actor’s Studio
‘Seeing no stranger begins in wonder. It is to look upon the face of anyone and choose to say, “you are a part of me I do not yet know.”’ – Valerie Carr To see and to be seen, to listen and respond, to connect with another fully and fearlessly:...
Presenter(s):
Jennifer Schulz
- Room 26, Sutherland School L242
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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Many Hands, One Musician ~ Working in the Guitar Circle without Guitars (please bring hands, feet, and voices!)
Orchestral Maneuvers: AT Beyond Hierarchy This is a companion workshop to Robert Fripp’s Keynote Address. Orchestral Maneuvers (OM) offer Guitar Craft (GC) forms for everybody: musicians, non-musicians, audience members, AT teachers, AT trainees, and the general public, even (older) children. The workshop will be led collaboratively by AT teachers who...
Presenter(s):
Erin Wigger
- Room 30, Sutherland School L247
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
A Modern Approach to Hands On the Back of the Chair Procedure
Applying Spirals and Developmental Movement to Alexander’s Hands on the Back of the Chair (HOBC) procedure: The procedure is described in F.M.’s “Illustration” in his second book Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual. But the subtleties of the use of the arms is notoriously esoteric and difficult to interpret. We...
Presenter(s):
Wes Howard
- Room 9, Newman Building B110
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Fully Booked
Places Booked:
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Tuning Ourselves for Peak Performance
In this workshop we will be exploring how the Technique enables optimal organization for movement and performance. There are many ways to define the Technique, but one very important one is as a means whereby to enable the most efficient and effective movement possible. While we are exploring this organization...
Presenter(s):
Robert Britton
- Room 22, Agriculture Centre G07
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Integrating Fascial Unwinding with the Alexander Technique
This workshop explores how fascial unwinding, a gentle technique used in Craniosacral Therapy, can be integrated with the Alexander Technique to release deep-seated tension and improve overall movement. Fascial unwinding involves gently guiding the body to release restrictions in the fascia, the connective tissue that supports and surrounds muscles and...
Presenter(s):
Mika Hadar-Borthwick
- Room 18, Agriculture Centre G01
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Fully Booked
Places Booked:
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25
AT in the Booth: Applying AT to Voice Acting
The craft of Voice Acting has its specific and unique challenges. Voice actors mostly work alone in a vocal booth, both in audition preparation and sometimes even in recording sessions. The entire performance is conveyed through the voice and is greatly enhanced when also embodied, which is where AT comes...
Presenter(s):
Trine C Jensen
Daisy Cockburn
- Room 21, Agriculture Centre 1.19
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Being in Nature, Connecting Inside and Out
Being in Nature, Connecting Inside and Out A practical and joyful exploration of how our Alexander Technique work can help others, and ourselves, find a deeper connection to Nature for wellbeing. The wellbeing and transformative effects of being in Nature are becoming more well known with shinrin yoku (forest bathing),...
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Presenter(s):
Julia Outlaw
- Room 28, Sutherland School L244
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Alexander’s early breathing work
The Chapter ‘Evolution of a technique’ in Use of the self describes FM’s voice problems and the discovery of primary control, but in the first fourteen years of Alexander’s working life he was teaching breathing and natural elocution. How do we square these two facts? I am currently working on...
Presenter(s):
Penelope Easten
- Room 23, H Skeffington Building C102A
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Fully Booked
Places Booked:
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25
Freedom and Flow for musicians
Flow is the most desired wish for all musicians: the freedom to express what they imagine and feel without being afraid, limited, or blocked. Unfortunately, almost all musicians practise their instruments in unhelpful ways, and not just on a level of poise, breathing and coordination. Most musicians artificially separate music...
Presenter(s):
Maaike Aarts
- Room 1, O'Brien Centre H0.12
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Singing into Being
A moment in the day to connect to grounding through vocalisation and integrative movement. If you are interested in exploring Alexander Technique in relation to singing and listening, please join us. Rosalie and Charlotte‘s workshops are a place to explore, celebrate and connect with your body and voice in community....
Presenter(s):
Rosalie Warner
Charlotte Herst
- Room 13, H Skeffington Building C001
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Building Confidence and Joy in Teaching
This will be an interactive, hands-on workshop where participants will engage with limiting ideas or beliefs about their teaching abilities in order to diminish the power of those ideas or beliefs and build confidence in their skills as an Alexander Technique teacher. We will use the knowledge of activities we...
Presenter(s):
Harry Hobbs
- Room 11, Newman Building B108
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Exploring Alexander Inspired Creative Movement
We will play with Alexander inspired movement games and explorations that I have found fruitful from experience working in the performing arts. This workshop hopes to encourage ideas on working with actors who want to move, dancers who want to act, and is for anyone who welcomes the opportunity to...
Presenter(s):
Korina Biggs
- Room 10, Newman Building B109
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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What Alexander knew. Delsarte’s discoveries in human expression
Joe will present the fundamental principles of the Delsarte system, how they appear in movement and expression, both in theory and in practice. He will share what he has learned from it, how he applies it to himself, and to the teaching of his wide variety of students. He will...
Presenter(s):
Joe Williams
- Room 14, H Skeffington Building A006
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Alexander-Technique and Focal Dystonia
Dystonia is a neurological movement disorder that is ten times more prevalent among musicians than in the general population. Following an introductory theoretical section on dystonia and its presumed physiological basis, you will gain insight into how this translates into practical Alexander Technique procedures for re-training the functions of affected...
Presenter(s):
Alexandra Mazek
- Room 7, O'Brien Centre E1.19
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Un-Perform Your Life
In this workshop we will experiment with our Alexander-awareness choices in relation to communication. The reaction patterns that are so familiar and comfortable to us, also complicate our communication with a layer of trying and doing, which interferes with authentic, heartfelt connection. Each of us has personal go-to reaction patterns...
Presenter(s):
Antoinette Kranenburg
- Room 6, O'Brien Centre H2.32
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Radiant Performance for Actors & Singers: The 4 Key Moments
Actors and singers are eager for effective processes to be present, open and show what they can do in a pressurized performance or audition situation. Their study of the Alexander Technique can translate into creative, productive tools that can be used at crucial moments while presenting work. In this experiential...
Presenter(s):
Eleanor Taylor
- Room 3, O'Brien Centre H2.12
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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The stomatognathic system
We all breathe, speak, eat, drink, chew, swallow and have facial expressions. These are basic human functions performed by the stomatognathic system. Stomatognathic originates from the Greek language where ‘stoma’ refers to the mouth and ‘gnathos’ refers to the jaw. In this workshop I will take you through the anatomy...
Presenter(s):
Elke Mastwijk
- Room 5, O'Brien Centre H2.40
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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25
How to Grow a Successful Teaching Practice
This workshop runs over 2 days – Monday 4th and Tues 5th August 2025. (Please book for both days when selecting events) We’ve dedicated years to becoming experienced Alexander Technique teachers—refining our hands-on skills, developing our keen sense of awareness, and honing our skills of ‘Use’ and ‘Direction’. But how...
Presenter(s):
Morgan Rysdon
- Room 29, Sutherland School L246
Workshop
2.00pm-3.30pm
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25
Practical AT Application for Performing Musicians
I believe there are three acute reasons for every musician to learn the Alexander Technique: efficient and effective practice, injury prevention and performing your best alongside nerves. In this workshop I will share some of the essentials I find frequently useful in my work with performing musicians. We will take...
Presenter(s):
Kerin Black
- Room 4, O'Brien Centre H2.20
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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How To Build Your Practice
Jeremy’s 12-Step ATSuccess Plan for Alexander Teachers planning to gather more students. Come ready to share your situation: our session will revolve around three or four individuals from those who attend – extracting the 12 steps as we explore. You can be a trainee or a teacher of 10+ years...
Presenter(s):
Jeremy Chance
- Room 24, University Club, Cedar/Cypress Room
How-to Sessions
2:00pm-3:30pm
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25
The Alexander Technique: A Potent “onstage” Partner for Performers
Learning to optimize their instruments – sound, breath, movement and imaginative processes – is just one of the many ways Alexander’s discoveries serve performing artists. Using this process only happens in the “now”, hence it lends an immediacy to fuel stage presence. The accumulation of benefits facilitates the connection between what...
Presenter(s):
Korina Biggs
Geordie MacMinn
Sarah Barfoot
Cathy Madden
Michael Frederick
- The O'Reilly Hall
Keynote-Plenary Session
4:00pm-5:30pm
Places Booked:
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900
The Burning Question – What is the Future of AT?
THE TIME IS NOW! There is a narrow window for change exists now to refresh the Alexander Technique. We are going to have a discussion groups on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings at 5.30pm followed by the Plenary Session Panel about the Future of AT on the Saturday morning....
Presenter(s):
Robert Fripp
David Anderson
- The O'Reilly Hall
Keynote-Plenary Session
5:30pm-6:30pm
Places Booked:
of
900
Meet the ATI Sponsors
Alexander Technique International (ATI) is a worldwide professional organization with members in six continents and twenty-seven countries. ATI has a unique process for certification that evaluates each candidate individually by three independent ATI Teaching Sponsors. Candidates are evaluated on their Conduct, Knowledge and Teaching Skills. This certification is available to every Alexander Technique...
Presenter(s):
Gabriella Minnes Brandes
Sharyn West
Tommy Thompson
Sarah Barker
Greg Holdaway
Ariel Weiss
- Room 17, Newman Building G107
Teatime Conversation
5:30pm-6:30pm
Places Booked:
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Trainees’ Gathering
For Trainees: Welcome to the 13th International AT Congress This is a chance to meet the 220 fellow trainees attending this Congress; exchange experiences, and begin forming connections that will last long after the Congress ends.
...Presenter(s):
Michaela Wohlgemuth
Michael Frederick
Kamal Thapen
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:15pm-8:00pm
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225
Poetry Evening
Join us for an informal poetry evening. The event offers a chance for friends and colleagues to gather, listen, and share favourite or original poems in any language. Whether you come to read or simply to enjoy, it’s an opportunity to reflect on the connections between poetry, voice, and the...
Presenter(s):
Duncan Knowles
- Room 7, O'Brien Centre E1.19
Latin American Jazz Fusion
with Paquita Rivera & Jane Guerra Paquita – Singer & Pianist & Alexander Teacher Teacher Chile Jane Guerra – Singer & Classical Violinst A heartfelt embrace between tradition and living emotion: the compositions from Achachairú, the album by Paquita Rivera (pianist and singer), rooted deeply in Latin American heritage, will...
Presenter(s):
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Entertainment
8:00pm
Places Booked:
of
100
Priming Tai Chi Moves with Heart Energy – 15 students – 5 morning sessions 7-8 am
In this course, Tai Chi Moves become your path to connecting with heart energy and priming each movement. Here, movement priming isn’t just about preparing the mind and body but creating an emotional and intentional connection to a specific, desired state. Unlike gradual development, this form of priming opens heart...
Presenter(s):
Joseph Weissenberg, PhD
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00am-8:00am every morning
Places Booked:
of
15
Smart Yoga
Based on the work of David Moore, these 5 yoga classes focus on finding the poses that work better for you, how to do them, what your habits are, and how to work with them. Throughout this experience, you can increase your confidence in working with clients interested in yoga and movement. We’ll...
Presenter(s):
Rossella Buono
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00-8:00 am
Fully Booked
Places Booked:
of
25
Morning Run
Every day for the run. Easy peasy…folks always have a good time. We leave at 7 and done by 8. Meet in front of The Conservatory, O’Reilly Hall
...Presenter(s):
Malcolm Balk
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00am-8:00am
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25
Keynote – Alexander Technique and Traumatic Responses
Alexander Technique and Traumatic Responses As Alexander Technique teachers, we don’t tend to ask students about their history of trauma. But for most people there is one in some form…… We know that taking somebody to a more easeful comfortable place as the technique often does, can be very helpful....
Presenter(s):
Betsy Polatin
- The O'Reilly Hall
Keynote-Plenary Session
9:00am -10:15am
Places Booked:
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900
Panel Discussion: Alexander Technique and Emotions
with | Penny Spawforth | Violeta Winograd | Anthony Kingsley | Merran Poplar | Other contributors to the panel: Delia Rosenboom | Bonno Lange The purpose of this panel is to deepen discussion and respectful dialogue about the importance of embracing our emotional and relational self as part of our...
Presenter(s):
Merran Poplar
Violeta Winograd
Penny Spawforth
Anthony Kingsley
- The O'Reilly Hall
Panel Discussion
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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250
Dart Procedures Advanced work
In previous presentations of the Dart Procedures at Congresses I have mainly worked with the basic floor procedures stemming from Semi-Supine. New discoveries about the Dart Procedures have emerged through time. So, this class is not addressed to the Dart beginner but towards those who have previously attended Dart classes....
Presenter(s):
Robin John Simmons
- Room 37, Health Sciences A003
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
How to use your back
Anyone familiar with the diary accounts of lessons with FM, or who had contact with people who had lessons with him, will know he put a lot of emphasis on the back. There was much talk of ‘using your back’ and developing a ‘strong back’, but in many Alexander circles...
Presenter(s):
John Nicholls
- Room 24, University Club, Cedar/Cypress Room
How-to Sessions
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Getting Ready to Perform
I was wondering how the tools of AT could help actors, singer and dancers to receive adequate feedback and find an optimum tone of readiness. I observed that by inhibiting and directing the muscular activity between the tailbone and the navel, we can develop an optimum muscle tone for movement....
Presenter(s):
Maret Mursa Tormis
- Room 11, Newman Building B108
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Offer and Receive
The Medicine Wheel is a movement practice that relates to directions of the compass with a clear sense of self relating to the world and community. Alternating between Offering and Receiving, the form uses simple arm movements that have Alexander applications. These include how our arms relate to our torso...
Presenter(s):
Robin Gilmore
- Room 12, Newman Building J109
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Direction of Musical Impulse, Changing the Reaction through Imagination
Musical impulse sends a jolt of energy through the frame of the musician. In the best scenario, the energy is released in a coherent message that flows through the musician into the instrument and out in sound, and energizes the audience too! The desire to play well, to play fast,...
Presenter(s):
Crissman Taylor
- Room 8, O'Brien Centre E2.18
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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25
Pathways to Choice
Among numerous meritorious benefits, the Alexander principles help us deal with the conundrums posed by habit and change. By following FM Alexander’s path of inhibition, we can successfully make non-habitual choices; we can reduce reaction and reactivity. This makes it easier to choose a more appropriate and reasoned response. Yet...
Presenter(s):
Tommy Thompson
- Room 38, Health Sciences B110/109
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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25
Psychophysicality – or is it just about the hands?
Starting with the act of putting the hands on another person the workshop will explore the both the physical and psychological aspects of the process. Peter Ribeaux has taught the Technique for over 50 years. He was co-director for thirty three years of an Alexander training course in London and...
Presenter(s):
Peter Ribeaux
- Room 7, O'Brien Centre E1.19
Workshop
2.00pm-3.30pm
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25
Can we talk about nothing?
If we try to do something, we cannot be receptive to an experience we have not yet had. We cannot even imagine what it might be! How can we pass the point of trying to do and allow ourselves to be in a state of inviting the unknown? It means...
Presenter(s):
Alexander Farkas
- Room 10, Newman Building B109
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Fully Booked
Places Booked:
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Dart in Chair Work 101, Part 1
Two part series, take one or both workshops. Can we bring more flow and power into our AT procedures and Application of our work? In this workshop we will explore more freedom of movement while directing our Head-Neck-Back relationship. Application of Developmental Movement and Dart is a wonderful way to...
Presenter(s):
Wes Howard
- Room 9, Newman Building B110
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
How to Grow a Successful Teaching Practice
This workshop runs over 2 days – Monday 4th and Tues 5th August 2025. (Please book for both days when selecting events) We’ve dedicated years to becoming experienced Alexander Technique teachers—refining our hands-on skills, developing our keen sense of awareness, and honing our skills of ‘Use’ and ‘Direction’. But how...
Presenter(s):
Morgan Rysdon
- Room 29, Sutherland School L246
Workshop
2.00pm-3.30pm
Places Booked:
of
25
Alexander Technique and Trauma – Integrating or Inhibiting Emotions?
As I began the AT training course I didn´t know I was traumatized. Although I had previously talked my way through the difficult childhood experiences in psychotherapy, it had been like looking at something that had happened to a stranger: no feelings involved. As AT helped me gradually to re-connect...
Presenter(s):
Anni Decker
Gabriele Fahrenkamp-Brandt
- Room 4, O'Brien Centre H2.20
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
What is AT Work Exchange for us? Beyond science! Beyond art!
A Japanese Musical Medical Doctor’s perspective In our international AT community, such as this congress, fewer and fewer work exchanges and more and more discussions (talking) are taking place. It seems that this is the time to examine our psycho-physical balance for the future development of our AT community. Having...
Presenter(s):
Yoshi Inada
- Room 6, O'Brien Centre H2.32
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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20
How and Why to Start a Blog . . . and How to Sustain it
Do you struggle to answer your students’ tough (and interesting) questions with clear and concise language? What about simply explaining the Alexander Technique to the public? Are you able to in a way that engages and interests your audience? A good teacher is a good explainer, but explaining things clearly...
CL Group: cl-group-a
Presenter(s):
Lauren Hill
- Room 5, O'Brien Centre H2.40
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
The Paradox of Piano Pedagogy
Pianists are the product of pedagogical traditions that tend to have a ‘one–size–fits–all’ approach to the piano. While rules are valuable to the degree that they advance skills, paradoxically, they can also impede progress. Pianists often unknowingly accept inherited assumptions and habits passed down from teacher to teacher, without questioning...
Presenter(s):
Heather Campbell
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Workshop
2:00pm-3.30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Games and Body Puzzles with Contact Improvisation and Alexander Technique
Contact improvisation (CI) is a dance form developed in 1970s by dancer/choreographer, Steve Paxton, as a way of exploring spontaneous movements and playful body mechanics with a partner. It has since grown into both an important component of contemporary dance training as well as a recreational dance form world wide....
Presenter(s):
Patrick Johnson
- Room 30, Sutherland School L247
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
On Stage: Back to Yourself!
Am I doing what I think I am doing? Am I a full partner with my instrument? When learning to play an instrument, we were typically taught to concentrate primarily on the instrument and the quality of the sound, with minimal guidance on how we use ourselves in relation to...
Presenter(s):
Agnès de Brunhoff
- Room 1, O'Brien Centre H0.12
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Are Emotions and Sensations Real?
This a workshop where I share how I integrate my Somatic Experiencing skills when teaching the Alexander Technique. We will explore the importance of acknowledging, making conscious and honouring the internal emotional world of our students to empower them with agency and healthy boundaries. Can students say ‘no’ or express...
Presenter(s):
Daniela Sangiorgio
- Room 14, H Skeffington Building A006
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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25
The door exercise – a forgotten but very helpful procedure
In 1910 FM Alexander published a supplement to his 1908 ‘Re-education of the Kinaesthetic Systems’ which describes ‘hands on the back of the chair,’ an early form of what would be named ‘monkey’ and the ‘door exercise.’ Unfortunately, the ‘door exercise’ is rarely used although it is a very helpful...
Presenter(s):
Thomas Hirt
- Room 23, H Skeffington Building C102A
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
How All-Inclusive Awareness (the Focus of ‘And-And-And’) can help us make ‘Win-Win-Win’ Long Term Choices
This practical workshop will explore all-inclusive awareness – a key element of conscious inhibition. Through practical explorations, we will: – Investigate the full spectrum of attention levels, from ‘Sleeping’ (level 0) to All-inclusive awareness (level 5) to Zoomed-in (level 10) and the levels in between.– Discover the various possibilities of...
Presenter(s):
Maaike Aarts
- Room 16, H Skeffington Building C104
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Co-Creating Release: Clean Language as a powerful tool to help clients release tension
In this workshop you can discover how words can guide your clients to find release from their tension. Some tension is connected to our clients on a deeper level, and may require a different approach from what the Alexander Technique has to offer. Trauma might be a reason, there might...
Presenter(s):
Johanna Miller
- Room 28, Sutherland School L244
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
The Psycho-Physical Supporting Practice Today
In this workshop we shall introduce the procedures of the Psycho-Physical Supporting Practice as a way of helping all practitioners of the Alexander Technique, both experienced and beginners, to work on themselves for a deeper and long lasting embodiment of our timeless processes of Inhibition and Direction. There will be...
Presenter(s):
Nadia Kevan
- Room 20, Agricultural Centre 1.16
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
The Art of Sharing the Heart of the Work
Art – to transcend technique and form Sharing – generously to reveal your curiosity, experience, and humanity Heart – to courageously and compassionately know yourself through the Work We all teach Alexander Technique – the essential ‘it’ of the Work, and we all use different forms and paradigms through which...
Presenter(s):
Midori Shinkai
Wendy Waggener
Robyn Avalon
Margarete Tüshaus
- Room 17, Newman Building G107
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Remember Psycho Physical Unity
I came to work with Alzheimer’s patients because I was personally affected. I researched for over 12 years into how I could take the principles of the Alexander Technique and the support approach as a basis for this work. To introduce you to the approach of my work, I would...
Presenter(s):
Ulli Pawlas
- Room 26, Sutherland School L242
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Using NLP and positive reinforcement to teach the Alexander Technique
Neuro-Linguistic Programming and behaviourism have both had a bad rap. Like water, air and electricity, they can be misused. They can also be used to great effect for good. Here are some applications of them to the Alexander Technique. I use NLP and positive reinforcement to teach the technique more...
Presenter(s):
David Owen
- Room 3, O'Brien Centre H2.12
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
The Power of Creating Room for Error: Build confidence in group teaching by expecting to make mistakes
Could building your own confidence as a teacher be the key to helping students feel more assured in their journey with the Alexander Technique? In group work, a deep connection to ourselves and to our students forms when we’re not distracted by fear of making mistakes. What happens if we’re...
Presenter(s):
Lindsay Newitter
- Room 2, O'Brien Centre H1.12
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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25
Primary Control Relationships
The primary control is not a switch, a reflex or anything that you can physically point at. It is a set of relationships between things that change. FM wrote to Frank Jones that ‘There really isn’t a primary control as such. It is a something in the sphere of relativity’....
Presenter(s):
Michael Stenning
- Room 13, H Skeffington Building C001
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
How Alexander Technique can help people with Autism Spectrum disorder?
We will explore the unique ways the Alexander Technique can support individuals on the autism spectrum. We’ll examine how principles such as inhibition, awareness, and sensory regulation can help ease sensory sensitivities, support emotional balance, and improve coordination. Drawing on examples and practical experience, we’ll discuss how Alexander teachers can...
Presenter(s):
Géraldine Marmier
- Room 34, Health Sciences A007
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Art of Breathing: Workshop for Alexander Teachers
“An easy and effortless exhalation prompts an easy and effortless inhalation.” – Jessica Wolf. Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing investigates the awakening of our attention by way of the breath. Breathing is movement and the respiratory system is the balance wheel of the body. We can restore mobility to overworked...
Presenter(s):
Jessica Wolf
- Room 19, Newman Building C215
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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25
Keynote – Alexander Technique and Traumatic Responses
Stephen Porges, PhD, is a neuroscientist and professor of psychiatry known for revolutionising our understanding of the autonomic nervous system through his Polyvagal Theory. First proposed in 1994, this groundbreaking framework explains how our nervous system evolved to support social connection, safety, and survival. We are both really excited to...
Presenter(s):
Betsy Polatin
Stephen W Porges
Anthony Kingsley
- The O'Reilly Hall
Keynote-Plenary Session
4:00pm -5:15pm
Places Booked:
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900
A Pupil-in-Wonderland Journey of the Alexander Technique…
The workshop is not a scientific explanation of what is now the Alexander Technique (AT). Enough has been written about the AT, by Matthias Alexander (FM) himself (four books + lectures + correspondence) and by successive generations of teachers. The workshop is a travel story of an ignorant pupil who...
Presenter(s):
Jan Verlinden
- Room 32, Sutherland School L249
Teatime Conversation
5:30pm-6:30pm
Places Booked:
of
25
Whispered Ah and the Warrior
Come and learn Tian Xiao, a very short martial art form, practised by The European School of T’ai Chi Chu’an UK. This was taught to all the trainees at the City Alexander Technique School and incorporated the Whispered Ah as a variation....
Presenter(s):
Kamal Thapen
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
5.30pm-6.30pm
Fully Booked
Places Booked:
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40
Meet the Authors
A chance to chat with the authors of AT books and to get them signed!
...Presenter(s):
Rossella Buono
- Bookshop
Activity
5:30pm-8:00pm
Fully Booked
Places Booked:
of
25
The Burning Question – What is the Future of AT?
THE TIME IS NOW! There is a narrow window for change exists now to refresh the Alexander Technique. We are going to have a discussion groups on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings at 5.30pm followed by the Plenary Session Panel about the Future of AT on the Saturday morning....
Presenter(s):
Robert Fripp
David Anderson
- The O'Reilly Hall
Keynote-Plenary Session
5.30-6.30pm
Places Booked:
of
900
Teaching Conversationally, Teaching Interpersonally
This paper will explore the possibilities of teaching conversationally, outlining how conversational teaching might be done in person and online. The aim of conversational teaching, as with all teaching, is to help a pupil transition from relying on subconscious guidance and control to a plane of ongoing constructive conscious control....
Presenter(s):
Richard Casebow
- Room 32, Sutherland School L249
Teatime Conversation
5:30pm-6:30pm
Places Booked:
of
25
Building a Bridge Across the International AT Community
We believe it is essential to bring together different AT organizations to learn from and support each other in a world where AT organizations are isolated and interest in the Alexander Technique is declining. Shared passion for the Alexander Technique can lead to positive co-operation that benefits everyone. Gaby Minnes...
Presenter(s):
Gabriella Minnes Brandes
Heather Campbell
- Room 17, Newman Building G107
Teatime Conversation
5:30pm-6:30pm
Places Booked:
of
75
Tango Evening
We invite you to discover the Argentine tango, come and dance. With music by Paquita Rivera & Jane Guerra Often perceived as a sensual and complex dance, Argentine tango can seem intimidating at first. But what is it really like? Far from clichés, this dance is first and foremost an...
Presenter(s):
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Entertainment
7:30pm-9:00pm
Places Booked:
of
650
Ease on Skis
Five skiers of widely different abilities find deeper courage and joy on the slopes by paying attention to how their heads move as they ski. A story of trauma recovery and reconnection to the planet, this quiet little film documents a radically original approach to an old sport. It could...
Presenter(s):
Philip Nessel
- UCD Club, Cedar/Cypress
Entertainment
8:00pm
Places Booked:
of
152
Hatha Yoga Flow
Yoga Every Morning...
Presenter(s):
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00am-8:00am every morning
Places Booked:
of
25
Hatha Yoga Flow
Yoga Every Morning...
Presenter(s):
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00am-8:00am every morning
Places Booked:
of
25
Priming Tai Chi Moves with Heart Energy – 15 students – 5 morning sessions 7-8 am
In this course, Tai Chi Moves become your path to connecting with heart energy and priming each movement. Here, movement priming isn’t just about preparing the mind and body but creating an emotional and intentional connection to a specific, desired state. Unlike gradual development, this form of priming opens heart...
Presenter(s):
Joseph Weissenberg, PhD
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00am-8:00am every morning
Fully Booked
Places Booked:
of
15
Smart Yoga
Based on the work of David Moore, these 5 yoga classes focus on finding the poses that work better for you, how to do them, what your habits are, and how to work with them. Throughout this experience, you can increase your confidence in working with clients interested in yoga and movement. We’ll...
Presenter(s):
Rossella Buono
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00-8:00 am
Places Booked:
of
25
Morning Run
Every day for the run. Easy peasy…folks always have a good time. We leave at 7 and done by 8. Meet in front of The Conservatory, O’Reilly Hall
...Presenter(s):
Malcolm Balk
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00am-8:00am
Places Booked:
of
25
Keynote – Embodiment
Historically we have developed a somewhat antagonistic relationship with the body – and so too with its innate intelligence. This is a cultural phenomenon that stretches back millennia. In this presentation, Philip Shepherd will bring to life not just the history of our estrangement from our bodies – he will...
Presenter(s):
Philip Shepherd
- The O'Reilly Hall
Keynote-Plenary Session
9:00am -10:15am
Places Booked:
of
900
The Burning Question – What is the Future of AT?
The dialogue Continues Conscious Inhibition creates the space between stimulus and response, a living pause in which something new can emerge. When we return to the classic Alexander Directions…“Neck to be free, head to go forward and up, the whole body to lengthen and widen”, we awaken a deeper physical intelligence....
Presenter(s):
Robert Fripp
David Anderson
- The O'Reilly Hall
Keynote-Plenary Session
10:30am-12:30pm
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Flea Market
We will set up a few tables for you to come and display, sell or exchange your items or just browse …
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- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
12:30pm-2:00pm
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Cabaret
I am very pleased to announce that on the evening of Wednesday, August 6th, a special Cabaret Night will take place as part of our congress. This event will be hosted and organized by me, Andrea Rohac. In memory of the wonderful Artist Night we experienced in Berlin, we would...
Presenter(s):
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Entertainment
7:30-9:00pm
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Hatha Yoga Flow
Yoga Every Morning...
Presenter(s):
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00am-8:00am every morning
Fully Booked
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Priming Tai Chi Moves with Heart Energy – 15 students – 5 morning sessions 7-8 am
In this course, Tai Chi Moves become your path to connecting with heart energy and priming each movement. Here, movement priming isn’t just about preparing the mind and body but creating an emotional and intentional connection to a specific, desired state. Unlike gradual development, this form of priming opens heart...
Presenter(s):
Joseph Weissenberg, PhD
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00am-8:00am every morning
Fully Booked
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Smart Yoga
Based on the work of David Moore, these 5 yoga classes focus on finding the poses that work better for you, how to do them, what your habits are, and how to work with them. Throughout this experience, you can increase your confidence in working with clients interested in yoga and movement. We’ll...
Presenter(s):
Rossella Buono
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00-8:00 am
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Morning Run
Every day for the run. Easy peasy…folks always have a good time. We leave at 7 and done by 8. Meet in front of The Conservatory, O’Reilly Hall
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Malcolm Balk
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00am-8:00am
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Keynote – The role of the brain and mind in chronic pain
Overview of Science Day for Dublin Alexander Technique Congress Introduction Since the turn of the new Millennium, we have witnessed a revolution in how the scientific and clinical communities view pain. A defining feature of this revolution is a shift from a biomedical model, which viewed pain as a simple...
Presenter(s):
Lorimer Moseley
David Anderson
- The O'Reilly Hall
Keynote-Plenary Session
9:00am-10:15am
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Observations on semiflexion and hands-on work
We will be looking at some of the fundamentals involved in teaching, especially regarding the freedom of the joints for semiflexion and the importance of how our hands and arms are connected to the whole of ourselves. Semiflexion (aka ‘monkey’, a position of mechanical advantage) is of course fundamental for...
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Presenter(s):
Jean Fischer
Regina Stratil
- Room 23, H Skeffington Building C102A
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Fully Booked
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Creating a Safe Place for Listening
Alexander once said, ‘It is no use giving orders whilst you have an idea at the back of your mind of doing something’. This workshop will explore the profound and amazing results which can happen during an Alexander lesson when non-doing is paramount. Non-doing hands can be one of the...
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Presenter(s):
Kecia Chin
Richard Brennan
- Room 20, Agriculture Centre 1.16
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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Freeing The Natural Voice
Each of us has inside of us a speaking voice that, through a natural pitch range of 3-4 octaves, can clearly express the widest gamut of emotion and the subtlest of thought. So often though, that ‘natural’ voice gets diminished through social conditioning and education. Speaking becomes a chore or...
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Presenter(s):
Geordie MacMinn
- Exchange Room, O'Reilly Hall
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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Going Up
‘When I am teaching you as I do now, I am able to convey to you what I want to convey because as I touch you and guide you with my hands in carrying out my instructions, I myself am going up! up! up!’ (p 51 of The Expanding Self...
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Presenter(s):
John Nicholls
- Room 24, University Club, Cedar/Cypress Room
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Fully Booked
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Supercharging Creativity: What We Can Do to Support Actors and Musicians
Let’s explore the best ways to teach the Alexander Technique so that actors and musicians find solutions with creativity and spontaneity. Whether they realize it or not their bodies must respond fully to the script or the score. The greater their ease and sense of whole self, the greater the...
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Presenter(s):
Sarah Barker
- Room 37, Health Sciences A003
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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‘It’s always the teacher’s fault’ and ‘You are here to do the impossible’
These are two of the late Patrick Macdonald’s mottos that most influence my own teaching. These phrases embody the essence of the Alexander Technique by focusing on the teacher’s on-going development. In this workshop we will explore the deeper meaning of Macdonald’s mottos, which clarify the division of the roles...
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Presenter(s):
Avi Granit
- Room 11, Newman Building B108
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30am
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Learning from each other
Much of what we know about teaching the AT comes from the practical hands-on work we have received from our teacher trainers, from the work we may have done on them, and from the work we have exchanged with our fellow students and colleagues. The practice of work exchange represents...
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Presenter(s):
Paolo Frigoli
- Room 14, H Skeffington Building A006
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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The 5 Postural Joints
Alexander’s “directions” to the Self can be analysed through the 5 sets of critical “postural” joints they anatomically depend upon. “There is no such thing as a right position, but there is such a thing as a right direction.” – FM Alexander FM discovered that all mammals have a primary...
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Presenter(s):
Jeremy Chance
- Room 13, H Skeffington Building C001
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Fully Booked
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The Art of Running
Take your understanding of use in walking and running to a new level and enjoy the practical benefits of this knowledge! Apply Alexander principles to walking and running with a view of thinking ‘outside the box’. This includes a consideration of movement in 3 planes, working with wedges and other...
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Presenter(s):
Malcolm Balk
Lindsay Newitter
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Fully Booked
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Attention and Appreciation, Depth and Discernment, Connection and Surprise
Lucia Walker, with Sharyn West and Violeta Winograd, will offer in the two sessions of continuous learning: information about the design of our nervous system, clarifying our understanding and experience of ‘psychophysical unity.’ opportunities to wake up our discerning observer of self and practise the quality and movement of attention...
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Presenter(s):
Sharyn West
Violeta Winograd
Lucia Walker
- Room 31, Sutherland School L248
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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Spatial Dimension in Movement
This workshop will focus on building direction and how we can meet this dynamic inner strength and centring, to transfer this power and freedom to our students.
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Presenter(s):
Caren Bayer
- Room 18, Agricultural Centre G01
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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Being in Touch with Our Hands
This workshop is about getting more deeply in touch with our hands than ever before. We can explore both old and new ways of working so we can find out our teaching habits and expand our repertoire in the use of our hands. We will explore our hands and get...
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Presenter(s):
Refia Sacks
- Room 1, O'Brien Centre H0.12
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Fully Booked
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Modern Means-Whereby for effective Teaching with Presence and Trust
Creating Connection, Clarity, and Safe Learning Spaces in the Alexander Technique This workshop explores the art of communication in AT lessons: Clarity, transparency, and a sense of safety are essential for successful learning in the Alexander Technique. When students feel met, understood, and supported, they can engage more openly —...
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Presenter(s):
Elena Munding
Gabriele Fahrenkamp-Brandt
- Room 4, O'Brien Centre H2.20
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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Getting the Work out in the World (OR, Teaching Skills for making the Work more accessible)
Join this highly experiential CL designed to offer you the basic tools and technical skills for introducing the Work to groups in an interactive, non-hierarchical style which allows students to quickly understand and experience what the Work has to offer them – leading them to want to study more (and...
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Presenter(s):
Robyn Avalon
- Room 10, Newman Building B109
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Fully Booked
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Walk with grace and power! Embody through the myofascial lines from your head to your toes.
Our goal with AT is to use awareness and thinking to re-coordinate our bodies so that movement patterns such as breathing, bending or walking come about in a better way. When this ‘just happens’ it can feel almost magical. In his early writings, Alexander wrote of walking as a ‘primary...
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Presenter(s):
Penelope Easten
- Room 9, Newman Building B110
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
Fully Booked
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The Critical Moment, Inhibition, Faulty Sensory Appreciation-and Other Alexander Technique Myths
I began studying the Technique in 1973 with Marj Barstow, started teaching in 1976, and continued studying with Marj until her death in 1995. I have taught private lessons, group classes, workshops for diverse groups, people ranging in age from their eighties to preteens, in the US, Europe and Japan,...
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Presenter(s):
Catherine Kettrick
- Room 27, Sutherland School L243
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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Growing Curiosity: Exploring Principles through Inquiry and Improvisation
When we follow our curiosity as teachers and learners, we engage in an ongoing investigation that is rich and full of surprises! As we foster an approach that is led by curiosity, we promote our students’ self-sufficiency and agency. In this CL, Ariel will share how she encourages experiential learning...
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Presenter(s):
Ariel Weiss
- Room 3, O'Brien Centre H2.12
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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Flow and Inhibition with the Collaborating8
Grounded in inhibition, flow offers dynamic, moment-to-moment ways of embodying and teaching the fluid, ever shifting nature of our Alexander work. In our workshop you will experience 8 different complementary explorations on this theme through our lively, growth-producing process of collaboration. May it inspire your own collaboration with colleagues. About...
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Presenter(s):
Barbara Kent
Rebecca Tuffey
Judith C Stern
Hope Martin
Kim Jessor
Joan Frost
Melissa Brown
Collaborating8: Evolving ACAT’s Legacy
- Room 5, O'Brien Centre H2.40
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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Teaching Children & Young Adults
Join The Developing Self team and explore some of the specialized skills that open up the doors to teaching children and young adults. In these two sessions you will try out some of the techniques we have found very effective, and fun, during 30 years of teaching Alexander in Primary...
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Presenter(s):
Sue Merry
Judith Kleinman
- Room 30, Sutherland School L247
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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Move Your Self
During our time together we will explore the Principles of the Alexander Technique through movement. Through the modalities of Developmental Movement, Bartenieff Fundamentals and Gaga, we will use our bodies as a laboratory to experiment, discover, and deepen our use of the Alexander Technique, seeking the best use of our...
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Presenter(s):
Jennifer Mizenko
- Room 21, Agriculture Centre 1.19
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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Hands, Wrists, Fingers: Creative Health
The physical dimensions of hands—coordination, relaxation, dexterity, speed, accuracy, and freedom from pain—are important and merit close study. While acknowledging these dimensions, Hands, Wrists, Fingers focuses on a broader perspective that includes cultural dimensions both conscious and unconscious, encompassing language, symbol, ritual, curiosity, playfulness, and mindfulness. Through a wealth of original insights,...
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Presenter(s):
Pedro de Alcantara
- Room 19, Newman Building C215
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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Bridging Generations – Teaching and Practice
This workshop will explore how our individual and collective practice of the Alexander Technique is connected to a web of support which links us to all the teachers who have come before us. Together we will playfully explore practical procedures, engaged as templates for learning, provided by FM Alexander and...
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Presenter(s):
Nanette Walsh
- Room 2, O'Brien Centre H1.12
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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Mastering the Business of being an Alexander Technique Teacher
How do I Create a Successful Business? ‘Your attitude is everything – it will determine your success’ A personal enquiry into the purpose, motivations and intentions for teaching the Alexander Technique. An exploration of the journey towards becoming a successful Alexander Technique teacher. We will share and draw from our...
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Presenter(s):
Anja Myrsep
Priska Gauger-Schelbert
- Room 34, Health Sciences A007
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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Everyday Jazz : Kindness, Curiosity, Play
What happens when you centre kindness, curiosity and play as you integrate the Alexander Technique directly into what you do each day – for yourself and for your students? Weaving these elements deeply in your Alexander Practice aligns with the neurology of how we are designed to learn, facilitating pleasurable...
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Presenter(s):
Cathy Madden
- Room 12, Newman Building J109
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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Empowering Musicians to Make Great Music with Ease, Love, and Joy
As a professional violinist and coach for musicians, Jennifer specializes in helping musicians overcome pain, performance anxiety, and other obstacles to personal fulfilment and artistic success. This CL session, based on her book, Make Great Music with Ease! The Secret to Smarter Practice, Confident Performance, and Living a Happier Life,...
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Presenter(s):
Jennifer Roig-Francolí
- Room 26, Sutherland School L242
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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How to Teach what’s in FM’s Books
I love FM’s books. Every time I re-read them, I find new ideas; things I had forgotten, new ways of understanding the work. Why do many of us find them difficult? Is it because we’re not teaching what’s in the books, and therefore, maybe, not teaching what FM was teaching?...
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Presenter(s):
Peter Nobes
- Room 32, Sutherland School L249
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30am
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Embodied Awareness: Experiencing our Inherent Coordination with ATI-LA
Up Your Teaching & Hands on Skills! Experience ways to Observe, Inhibit, and Direct with our Senior Faculty. Break out of the mold, think differently. We are here to share our practice and learn with you. Refine how you work on your Self (stimulus / response); expand your hands-on skills...
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Presenter(s):
Babette Markus
Meg Jolley
Alexander Training Institute of Los Angeles
Frances Marsden
- Room 8, O'Brien Centre E2.18
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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Simple and Effective: The Classical Carrington Approach
Join Us for a Unique, Hands-On Experience with CTC’s Continuous Learning Workshop Explore the classical hands-on teaching skills, procedures, and games developed by Walter Carrington, evolving from his close association with FM Alexander. Known for its high teacher-to-participant ratio, this entirely practical and experiential approach is the cornerstone of the...
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Presenter(s):
Alan Philps
Duncan Knowles
Alice Olsher
Marta Barón
Michelle Cole
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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Teaching the Teachers – your eyesight, brain and vision questions answered
The Continuous Learning sessions Teaching the Teachers – your eyesight, brain and vision questions answered by Peter Grunwald are cancelled as he is unable to make it to Dublin. Please deselect this event in your Events List and take the opportunity to select some other event to attend.
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Presenter(s):
- Room 9, Newman Building B110
Continuous Learning
10.30am-12.30pm
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The Habit of Identity in ‘Use of Self’ and Personal Narrative
Can we imagine a ‘train of change,’ blowing its whistle as your signal to get on board? The train stops at every station, but only for a moment. If you tightly hold onto a fixed way of being, thinking, feeling, or perceiving, then as the train approaches one can refuse...
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Presenter(s):
Tommy Thompson
- Room 38, Health Sciences B110/109
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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Finding Our Place in Time: Experiments in the Art of Anticipation
You are living in the past. What you experience as the present is a result of several milliseconds to seconds of integrating sensory information. You are also living in the future. Your perceptions are shaped by your beliefs about what might be coming next. As the American psychologist, George Kelly...
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Presenter(s):
David M Mills
- Room 16, H Skeffington Building C104
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30pm
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“Look Ma, No Hands!” How touch-free teaching improves everything (including your hands-on!)
In this workshop, I’ll show you how starting to learn the skills & strategies needed to teach the Alexander Technique without hands-on will immediately benefit you by: ● Accelerating the improvement of your Use,● Sharpening your observation skills,● Improving the sensitivity and effectiveness of your hands-on work and…● Opening up...
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Presenter(s):
Mio Morales
- Room 6, O'Brien Centre H2.32
Continuous Learning
10.30am-12.30pm
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AT meets Yoga, Tai chi, Qigong and other forms of gentle movement.
The Alexander Technique is more and more presenting itself as an essential element or a missing link for many practitioners of different forms of movement.In this session we will explore how to practice ourselves as well as assess and guide our students in these activities. Please bring your own Yoga...
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Presenter(s):
David Moore
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Continuous Learning
10:30-12:30 am
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Spontaneity in action
Deepen your awareness to enhance spontaneity in your actions. Performers need both of those qualities. As Alexander teachers, we can help them in integrating these essential aspects into their practice and performance. My background lies in contemporary dance as performer, choreographer and teacher. Over the years, I’ve taught dancers, actors,...
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Presenter(s):
Soile Lahdenperä
- Room 28, Sutherland School L244
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30am
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I have a question
Maybe I have many questions . . . How do I really give directions? What is this ‘giving’, ‘ordering’, ‘thinking’? What exactly happens inside me, my head, my body, my body-mind? How can I become conscious of this? Can all this take place in complete silence? Should it? Is verbal...
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Presenter(s):
Gal Ben-Or
- Room 29, Sutherland School L246
Continuous Learning
10:30am-12:30am
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Continuous Learning Module in Dublin
Anthony describes his London School as a “Trauma Informed and Emotionally Literate Alexander Training” In the Continuous Learning Module Anthony will explore some of his favourite themes: Does the idea of Psychophysical Unity explain how the impact of overwhelming distress, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE), and Trauma is revealed in the...
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Presenter(s):
Anthony Kingsley
- Room 17, Newman Building G107
Continuous Learning
10.30am-12.30pm
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T’ai Chi Circling and Pushing Hands
In this class we will explore the basics of the circling hands and pushing hands activities which have significant links to the principles and practice of the Alexander Technique.
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Robin John Simmons
- Room 37, Health Sciences A003
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Psychophysicality – or is it just about the hands?
Starting with the act of putting the hands on another person the workshop will explore the both the physical and psychological aspects of the process. Peter Ribeaux has taught the Technique for over 50 years. He was co-director for thirty three years of an Alexander training course in London and...
Presenter(s):
Peter Ribeaux
- Room 12, Newman Building J109
Workshop
2.00pm-3.30pm
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Developing Chair Work procedures from Dart and Developmental Movement, Part 2
Two part series, take one or both workshops. In this workshop, we will learn how to use Developmental Movement and Dart Procedures in creating Chair Work procedures. Highly inspired by the pioneering work of Joan and Alex Murray, participants will explore how we evolved(evolutionary movement) and how we learned to move as...
Presenter(s):
Wes Howard
- Room 9, Newman Building B110
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Art of Breathing: Workshop for Alexander Teachers
“An easy and effortless exhalation prompts an easy and effortless inhalation.” – Jessica Wolf. Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing investigates the awakening of our attention by way of the breath. Breathing is movement and the respiratory system is the balance wheel of the body. We can restore mobility to overworked...
Presenter(s):
Jessica Wolf
- Room 19, Newman Building C215
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Expanded Whispered Ah
In this fun workshop we will be exploring how the Whispered Ah is completely integrated with every other part body including our movement systems. So often vocal professionals do not realize how the quality of the rest of the body affects vocal production. Alexander teachers are uniquely qualified to teach...
Presenter(s):
Robert Britton
- Room 13, H Skeffington Building C001
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Panel Discussion: The Science of Pain from an AT Perspective
Science Day Between the morning and afternoon presentations, we will host an interactive symposium from three AT teachers/scientists who have made major contributions to our understanding of how the AT might modulate pain: Tim Cacciatore, Rajal Cohen, and Mari Hodges. A panel discussion and Q&A session, led by individuals who...
Presenter(s):
Tim Cacciatore
Rajal Cohen
Mari Hodges
- The O'Reilly Hall
Panel Discussion
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Entering the Creative Space
When stimuli begin to impact, there is a micro-window of opportunity to stay mentally fluid and allow options to appear. This happens very quickly – almost in a different time-scale. It is a high-energy state in which the wonderful possibility of the new appears, with all its freshness and, at...
Presenter(s):
John Hunter
- Room 5, O'Brien Centre H2.40
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Alexander Technique in a Clinical Setting
This workshop will present the use of the Alexander Technique (AT) and Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing (AoB) as a resource and method for treatment used in a clinical mental health setting. The presenter will share her professional experience of blending AT and AoB while treating clients with symptoms/diagnoses such...
Presenter(s):
Jennifer Kelly
- Room 21, Agriculture Centre 1.19
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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How To Take Hands Off!
Marjorie Barlow relates FM Alexander saying that the teacher’s hands should be so light that the pupil hardly knows that they are on him. While we do focus on how to put hands on our pupil, we seldom speak about how to let them come away. Disengagement is a close...
Presenter(s):
Alexander Farkas
- Room 18, Agricultural Centre G01
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Functional Breathing and Buteyko
Breathing is an involuntary activity, yet it can be disrupted by everyday stresses, dietary choices, excessive sitting and talking, and environmental factors. The Buteyko Method is a breathing technique designed to enhance functional breathing patterns. Functional breathing involves consistently breathing through the nose while resting, exercising, or sleeping. It emphasizes...
Presenter(s):
Daniela Sangiorgio
- Room 38, Health Sciences B110/109
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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FM’s Legacy via Patrick Macdonald and Peter Scott
This practical workshop will be given by Diana Devitt-Dawson and Toni Del Mar, two 2nd generation teachers who were trained by Patrick MacDonald and Peter Scott respectively. Diana and Toni will discuss and demonstrate with participants the process of preparing for ‘hands-on’ teaching and the placing of hands on the...
Presenter(s):
Diana Devitt-Dawson
Antonia Del Mar
- Room 31, Sutherland School L248
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Alexander’s early procedures and the Delsarte system – were they linked?
We know that early on, Alexander taught the Delsarte System of Gestural Training. I will present evidence that this work probably formed the basis of his early procedures. What was he teaching? In this workshop we will explore the early procedures he used, and explore how they relate to Delsartean...
Presenter(s):
Penelope Easten
- Room 23, H Skeffington Building C102A
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Legs are Undervalued
INTRODUCTION Legs are often poorly treated; they are crossed, wrapped around chair legs and even sat on. Often forgotten because they are remote, under a table or desk and appear to be irrelevant. The reflex bending and walking patterns are frequently disturbed in modern life. Legs are needed, as an...
Presenter(s):
Felicity Bryant
- Room 27, Sutherland School L243
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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The Marvellous Mandible: A Jaw-Dropping Study for Acoustics, Diction, Embouchure, Chin, Dental & TMJ Issues
Alexander was born prematurely and had issues in what is known today as the suck-swallow-breathe synchrony. Carrington records that FM was very concerned about his jaw, since he had an extreme overbite. This faulty coordination is at the opposite end of the habits that appear in the general population. So...
Presenter(s):
Kathryn Armour
- Room 2, O'Brien Centre H1.12
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Standing Upright in an Alexander Context – Developmental Erasure and Reconnection
Alexander Technique’s postural signifiers have become so culturally ubiquitous that standing postures (or standing correctly) are often regarded as exemplary or neutral/normal. Musculoskeletal and biomechanical postural perspectives frequently omit the evolutionary process that brought humans to standing. In medical models, body positions are depicted mechanically, as if bodies were neutral...
Presenter(s):
Elizabeth Johnson
Luc Vanier
- Room 17, Newman Building G107
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Fully Booked
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‘We are just upright worms’ revisited
The idea made me smile. Worms have segmented body parts that help it to move. ‘These segments either contract or relax independently to cause the body to lengthen in one area or contract in other areas. Segmentation helps the worm to be flexible and strong in its movement. If each...
Presenter(s):
Sue Fleming
- Room 34, Health Sciences A007
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Manner of Reaction As Embodied Mind 1
In this first workshop of two, we will use Alexander’s guiding orders for standing in MSI to explore the first four stages of Stanley Greenspan’s model of mind. Greenspan collaborated with Stephen Porges at various times and his model provides a way to understand the association between manner of use...
Presenter(s):
Richard Casebow
- Room 11, Newman Building B108
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Alexander Technique and an Approach to Dystonia: Untangling the Yarn in the Brain
Dystonia is a neurological condition that affects people’s ability to control certain movements and manifests in spasms and twisting motions that happen repeatedly, sometimes with severe pain. The person’s ability to perform basic tasks can be severely impaired and affects their personal and professional life. Synthetically, those difficulties can be...
Presenter(s):
Enrique Gorostegi
- Room 1, O'Brien Centre H0.12
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Embodiment Practices: Freeing the Body from Cultural Conditioning.
As the movements of a fish are learned in response to the water it swims in, the use of our bodies is patterned by the culture that surrounds us. Knowing nothing else in our youth – as a fish knows only water – we encode the assumptions of our culture...
Presenter(s):
Philip Shepherd
- Room 10, Newman Building B109
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Fully Booked
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Modernizing AT for Peak Performance and Skilled Activity
This workshop aims to capture the attention of contemporary audiences by addressing a wider variety of physical activities performed at the highest levels. For the Alexander Technique (AT) to remain relevant, it must evolve beyond traditional lesson formats and embrace modern applications more readily. Participants will explore practical and innovative...
Presenter(s):
Michael Mah
- Room 16, H Skeffington Building C104
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Our Evolving BodyStory: an experiential collaboration with Meg Jolley and Frances Marsden
Explanation:We explore how early reflexes feed into full-body coordination, through the lenses of Developmental Movement Patterning and the DART Procedures. Meg will lead us into a ‘sensory tune-up’ to clarify pathways of awareness, highlighting how these early movement reflexes trigger sensori-motor responses. From conception to crawling, our bodies develop the...
Presenter(s):
Meg Jolley
Frances Marsden
- Room 8, O'Brien Centre E2.18
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Practical Demonstration of The Alexander Technique and Everyday Activities
Bridget’s early years as a certified Alexander teacher in her West Cork community in Ireland has confirmed the practical reasons which led her to work in groups from 3 to 20 people. FM Alexander’s powerful tool for change was introduced to the general public with demonstrations. This became the avenue...
Presenter(s):
Bridget Sheeran
- Room 7, O'Brien Centre E1.19
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Why you don’t need to free your neck
In Evolution of a Technique, discovering the head/neck/back relationship didn’t solve FM’s voice problem. It was the next step that did solve it – staying available to do something else. Remember? – I want to recite, but maybe instead I’ll do nothing, or maybe I’ll lift my hand. I think...
Presenter(s):
Peter Nobes
- Room 32, Sutherland School L249
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Fully Booked
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Working with People Living With Parkinson’s
Bill will share his sixteen years of experience working with People Living With Parkinson’s. He will demonstrate how he works, as well as discussing how Alexander teachers can be of great help to PLWP in daily activities and functioning.
...Presenter(s):
Bill Connington
- Room 26, Sutherland School L242
Workshop
2:00-3:30 pm
Fully Booked
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Ease on Skis – Exploring Dynamic Ease in Movement
Why think about skiing in the middle of summer? Because simply thinking about it can transform not only your skiing but also how you move in daily life—how you walk, stand, sit, turn, and interact with the ground beneath you. Ease on Skis, our unique application of the Alexander Technique...
Presenter(s):
Christoph Lutz
Philip Nessel
Jana Boronova
- Room 30, Sutherland School L247
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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The Egg, the Eight and the 13 Joints or The Power of Imagination
– How to convey complex content in an easy way – Sharing material and tools for teaching group classes and individuals. Coming from a background in dance and theatre, I was confronted with teaching the Alexander Technique to groups early in my career. Our training program did not really prepare...
Presenter(s):
Jule Gartzke
- Room 24, University Club, Cedar/Cypress Room
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Plenary – Chronic Back Pain Research Update
Science Day We will finish the day with a presentation from Paul Little, the principal investigator on the ATEAM clinical trial that showed long term reductions in chronic back pain following lessons in the AT. He will provide an update on their latest research efforts focused on the effects of...
Presenter(s):
Paul Little
- The O'Reilly Hall
Keynote-Plenary Session
4.00pm-5.15pm
Places Booked:
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900
Whispered Ah and the Warrior
Come and learn Tian Xiao, a very short martial art form, practised by The European School of T’ai Chi Chu’an UK. This was taught to all the trainees at the City Alexander Technique School and incorporated the Whispered Ah as a variation....
Presenter(s):
Kamal Thapen
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
5.30pm-6.30pm
Places Booked:
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40
The Burning Question – What is the Future of AT?
THE TIME IS NOW! There is a narrow window for change exists now to refresh the Alexander Technique. We are going to have a discussion groups on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings at 5.30pm followed by the Plenary Session Panel about the Future of AT on the Saturday morning....
Presenter(s):
Robert Fripp
David Anderson
- The O'Reilly Hall
Keynote-Plenary Session
5.30-6.30pm
Places Booked:
of
900
Demonstrations and Coaching of Using NLP and positive reinforcement to teach the Alexander Technique
Following my workshop “Using NLP and positive reinforcement to teach the Alexander Technique” on the Tuesday. I will be demonstrating and coaching how to use my methods and available for fuller responses to questions people may have. I believe my methods make both teaching and learning the Technique quicker, easier...
Presenter(s):
David Owen
- Room 22, Agriculture Centre G07
Activity
5:30pm-6:30pm
Fully Booked
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Poster Session
Please come and look at posters to do with AT work. Your chance to talk to the presenters and inquire further into their work. Posters by:
...Presenter(s):
Kamal Thapen
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
5:30pm-6:30pm
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100
How Conscious Inhibition & Direction Affect the Human Brain
The neuroscience underlying the Alexander Technique remains largely unexplored. This talk will discuss how conscious inhibition and direction influence brain function, and how neuroscience-informed strategies can be applied to optimize brain performance, enhance learning, and improve practice outcomes.
...Presenter(s):
Professor Mike YiYuan Tang
- The O'Reilly Hall
Keynote-Plenary Session
7:30pm-8:30pm
Places Booked:
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900
Hatha Yoga Flow
Yoga Every Morning...
Presenter(s):
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00am-8:00am every morning
Places Booked:
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Priming Tai Chi Moves with Heart Energy – 15 students – 5 morning sessions 7-8 am
In this course, Tai Chi Moves become your path to connecting with heart energy and priming each movement. Here, movement priming isn’t just about preparing the mind and body but creating an emotional and intentional connection to a specific, desired state. Unlike gradual development, this form of priming opens heart...
Presenter(s):
Joseph Weissenberg, PhD
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00am-8:00am every morning
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15
Smart Yoga
Based on the work of David Moore, these 5 yoga classes focus on finding the poses that work better for you, how to do them, what your habits are, and how to work with them. Throughout this experience, you can increase your confidence in working with clients interested in yoga and movement. We’ll...
Presenter(s):
Rossella Buono
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00-8:00 am
Fully Booked
Places Booked:
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Morning Run
Every day for the run. Easy peasy…folks always have a good time. We leave at 7 and done by 8. Meet in front of The Conservatory, O’Reilly Hall
...Presenter(s):
Malcolm Balk
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00am-8:00am
Places Booked:
of
25
Keynote – Education
Keynote TBA on Education...
Presenter(s):
- The O'Reilly Hall
Keynote-Plenary Session
9:00am -10:15am
Places Booked:
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900
Optimal Brain Development
There is a life-long relationship between our environmental experiences and our brain function. Repetitive environmental experience moulds the brain. This happens by altering the structure and connections, which, in turn, affects the emotions and behaviour. This is the concept of neuroplasticity. It is particularly available to children and adolescents but...
Presenter(s):
Paula Healy
- The O'Reilly Hall
Keynote-Plenary Session
9:00am-10:15am
Places Booked:
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900
Panel Discussion: Legacy Project – Alexander Technique for Life (FMAT Charity Project)
“The Alexander Technique is a means to an end, not an end in itself” Please join us for an open and enlightening conversation about First Generation Teachers. What have we, and perhaps others in the audience, learnt from them that have helped us in our lives? This panel has come...
Presenter(s):
Julia Outlaw
Jacqui Hindley
Gerda Druks-Kok
John Hunter
Nanette Walsh
- Exchange Room, The O'Reilly Hall
Panel Discussion
2:00pm-3:30pm
Places Booked:
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250
Understanding and Managing the Psychophysical Changes Associated with Alexander Lessons
A Teaching Embodied in a Relationship The Primacy of a Right Brain to Right Teacher / Student Relationship in the Successful Practice of the Alexander Technique. This presentation is based on the research of two world-recognised neuroscientists, psychiatrist Dr Iain McGilchrist1 and neuropsychologist Alan Schore. Their research provides solid evidence...
Presenter(s):
Geoff Dawson
- Room 10, Newman Building B109
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Working with people living with pain
People living with pain often don’t want to be touched. They may not be able to sit, stand or lie down for very long, and even thinking may be difficult. Typical lesson activities may cause flare-ups. Does that mean that the Alexander Technique is not for them? Or is there...
Presenter(s):
Mari Hodges
- Room 32, Sutherland School L249
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Fully Booked
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Learning While You Teach, Teaching While You Learn…
We will look at the value of bringing the work to the person as well as bringing the person to the work. Bringing the person to the work does certainly have obvious benefits; it provides the student with an integrated experience not otherwise available to them given their commitment to...
Presenter(s):
Tommy Thompson
- Room 38, Health Sciences B110/109
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Unity and Use: the conceptual anatomy of the Technique
Tim’s talk is based on his recent PhD thesis. He argues that Alexander’s theoretical achievement is every bit as great and important as his practical one, but that it is not properly appreciated. Even when it is foregrounded, it typically appears as at best a shopping list of principles, sometimes...
Presenter(s):
Tim Kjeldsen
- Room 12, Newman Building J109
Workshop
2.00pm-3.30pm
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Unpacking Our Attention in Hands-on Work
It has become clear to me over many years of doing exchanges and receiving feedback, that my hands-on work is more clear and directed when I am seeing clearly, my breathing is flowing, I am mentally present, and I have expanded awareness. In this workshop, we will partner up, then...
Presenter(s):
Joan Frost
- Room 31, Sutherland School L248
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Workplace Health Promotion with the Alexander Technique in the Swiss Chocolate Industry at Sprüngli
We will share insights on applying the Alexander Technique, paired with Priska Gauger Schelbert’s balance-time® concept, within a chocolate industry context. This Workshop aims to equip Alexander Technique teachers with strategies for integrating body awareness, stress reduction, and health-promoting practices into a high-demand workplace. Through this approach, we demonstrate how...
Presenter(s):
Géraldine Marmier
Priska Gauger-Schelbert
- Room 34, Health Sciences A007
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Alexander Technique and Taoism
In this workshop Doris and her colleague Maaike Aarts, who is also training as a Taoist, will explore the similarities between Alexander Technique and Taoism. Essentially, both AT and Taoism are aware that energy needs to – and can – be projected so that life and movement start flowing more...
Presenter(s):
Doris Hochscheid
Maaike Aarts
- Room 13, H Skeffington Building C001
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Kinaesthetic Energy Patterns and the Alexander Technique: How Energy Patterns Can Enhance and Expand Our Perceptual and Pedagogical Skills
Researchers have proposed that four primary energy patterns flow through the human nervous system. These patterns are hypothesized to comprise the primary neuromuscular connection between body and mind. Discovered in the 1930s by kinaesiologist, Josephine Rathbone, who was researching the ways people move and hold residual tension in their bodies,...
Presenter(s):
Sandra Dager
David Anderson
- Room 9, Newman Building B110
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
Fully Booked
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Engaging and Resetting Spirals with Hands-on Work
Raymond Dart (1893-1988), a palaeoanthropologist and prominent player in the development of modern anthropology articulated what he called the human Double Spiral musculature. In Alexander Technique hands-on teaching, there is an opportunity to tune into and follow various spiralling pathways. With a collaboratively created developmental movement pattern recognition system, the...
Presenter(s):
Elizabeth Johnson
Luc Vanier
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Manner of Reaction As Embodied Mind 2 – Abstract
In this second workshop, we will focus on the final two stages of working with Stanley Greenspan’s model of mind, where emotional ideas can be created and elaborated using constructive conscious control in an age-appropriate way across the lifespan. The workshop will draw on ideas from Alexander’s writings, particularly CCCI,...
Presenter(s):
Richard Casebow
- Room 20, Agricultural Centre 1.16
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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To Teach is to Inspire and Support: The Living Process of becoming a Teacher and Teaching Teachers of the Alexander Technique.
In this workshop Nadia will introduce and explore some vital themes involved in becoming and being an Alexander Technique teacher. Applying a brief introduction to the Psycho-Physical Supporting Practice, the participants will work towards a clearer sense of self and purpose while teaching. The conscious use of the Supporting Practice...
Presenter(s):
Nadia Kevan
- Room 14, H Skeffington Building A006
Workshop
2:00pm-3.30pm
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Use Social Media for AT and Business Practices
Did you know having a strong social media presence is as important as owning a website? Join Michael in this groundbreaking workshop on digital fluency to learn how to enhance your social media and website visibility. Today’s audiences exhibit high levels of digital fluency and competency, spending over six hours...
Presenter(s):
Michael Mah
- Room 19, Newman Building C215
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Body Tuning
It is common for Alexander Technique teachers to work with musicians, yet often Alexander teachers feel like they need more specific information about how to work with musicians. Since musicians tune their instruments before they play, this workshop will address how musicians can ‘tune’ their bodies before practice and performance....
Presenter(s):
Wendy Waggener
- Room 26, Sutherland School L242
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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25
Horses and Humans: An Animal Model for Understanding Stability and Resilience
We will look at the work and research of Postural Rehabilitation, an intervention for treating horses by influencing how the animal is organized in stance. The discomfort, or physical cost of staying upright on a compromised system influences all aspects of the four legged athlete including their performance, their susceptibility...
Presenter(s):
Elizabeth Reese
- Room 1, O'Brien Centre H0.12
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Autism from the Inside – A Neurodivergent Teacher’s Approach to Alexander Technique Hands on Work.
I was given a late diagnosis of autism last year at the age of 40. This diagnosis has given me a deep understanding not only of myself but also of other people who may have similar challenges, both in terms of sensory overwhelm and hypersensitivity to touch. Touch is such...
Presenter(s):
Teresa Turner
- Room 29, Sutherland School L246
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Integrating the Alexander Technique as we Create New Works!
Madden will lead the group in developing some short performance pieces – with sound, music, acting, etc – using the Alexander process in each step of the development. By the end of our time together, we will share our new Alexander-infused creations with each other.
...Presenter(s):
Cathy Madden
- Room 20, Agricultural Centre 1.16
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Inhibit / Inhabit / Unhabit
This workshop will explore another facet of Inhibition – becoming curious and intimate with the quality of our habits and learning to accommodate them, even if there is injury or pain involved. When our patterns are welcomed – not shunned – they can unwind in the context of our whole...
Presenter(s):
Hope Martin
- Room 7, O'Brien Centre E1.19
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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25
All of Me: Performing from the Whole Self
Many performers complain that they feel stifled, cut off from their emotions, their creative ‘juices’ when they perform. Some get caught up in ‘getting it right’ or ‘technique’. Others develop stage nerves. They find themselves stiffening; their breathing becomes shallow. Through AT, performers can free not only their powerful body-mind,...
Presenter(s):
Jana Tift
- Room 5, O'Brien Centre H2.40
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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The mutual correlation between physical and psycho-emotional balance
One of the fascinating aspects of the Alexander Technique is the coherence between our physical reactions, habits of movement and how we behave in life. Particularly clear and also very important to me, is the mutual correlation between physical balance and psycho-emotional balance. During the workshop, we will experimentally explore...
Presenter(s):
Magdalena (Dorota) Kędzior
- Room 6, O'Brien Centre H2.32
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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The Other End of the Story
Observing mammals similar to us such as cats or horses, we do see a distinct and lively use of their ‘other ends’ – their tails – which very precisely and communicatively express the state of their whole beings. Their tails act as a counterpart to their head and neck. This...
Presenter(s):
Margarete Tüshaus
- Room 4, O'Brien Centre H2.20
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Sensorial Experience of Space and Time in Making Haiku
Sensing the space and time in a different way, as writing Haiku. Midori explores the different ways of unifying our field of attention in space and oneself, and experiments with how this affects the quality of being oneself.
...Presenter(s):
Midori Shinkai
- Room 8, O'Brien Centre E2.18
Workshop
2:00pm-3:00pm
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Serving the LGBTQIA+ Communities
A gathering space for the AT Queer Community and those who would like to support AT accessibility in queer communities. Let’s share our experiences and visions. This is a workshop, rather than a Teatime conversation so that we can share group activities and teaching tools, if desired. Everyone is welcome!
...Presenter(s):
Robyn Avalon
- Room 24, University Club, Cedar/Cypress Room
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Pause, Observe, Intend: A Qualitative Analysis of How Mindfulness and Alexander Technique Work Synergistically to Address Stress
In line with the theme of the congress, Embodied Mind in Action, this workshop invites participants to experience the synergistic ways in which mindfulness meditation and Alexander Technique approach stress. We will share insights from our recent research project that explored how dual-discipline experts self-regulate when under stress. Seventeen practitioners...
Presenter(s):
Clare Wilkinson
Gabriella Minnes Brandes
- Room 22, Agriculture Centre G07
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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25
Embodied Cognition: Principles and Practices to Support the Whole Person
Embodied cognition is the well-founded theory that explains how bodily sensations and experiences are essential to forming our understanding of the world, the construction of conceptual knowledge, and meaning-formation. It accounts for the role of sensation and movement in perception, social and emotional judgements, language comprehension, emotions, abstraction and metaphor. It...
Presenter(s):
Rachelle Palnick Tsachor
- Room 30, Sutherland School L247
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Free Public Workshop – Introduction to the Alexander Technique
A free introductory workshop for members of the public to attend and get an in person experience of the Alexander Technique. It is suitable for anyone new to the technique so if you have met anyone during this week or know anyone in Dublin please bring them along. It will...
Presenter(s):
Richard Brennan
- Room 17, Newman Building G107
Workshop
2:00pm-3:30pm
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30
How to Make More Money as an Alexander Technique Teacher
This workshop is a safe and uplifting space to bring care to a subject that many struggle with silently. Just like the Alexander Technique, your capacity to create wealth is simple but not automatic. I am excited to share my practical expertise in service of co-creating a supportive culture around...
Presenter(s):
Anna Camilla Goldbeck-Wood
- Room 21, Agriculture Centre 1.19
How-to Sessions
2:00pm-3:30pm
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Education – Alexander in Education with The Developing Self
Past, Present and Future At this plenary session The Developing Self are inviting you to join in an exploration of Alexander in Education past, present and moving forwards. The panel will be Judith Kleinman, Sue Merry, Peter Buckoke and Gabrielle Czaja, all members of The Developing Self team UK and...
Presenter(s):
Gabrielle Czaja
Peter Buckoke
Sue Merry
Judith Kleinman
- The O'Reilly Hall
Keynote-Plenary Session
4:00pm-5:15pm
Places Booked:
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900
T’ai Chi Introduction & Short Form
In this class we will look at the preliminary procedures plus the first section of the Short Form of Cheng Man-ch’ing while applying AT principles.
...Presenter(s):
Robin John Simmons
- Room 37, Health Sciences A003
Teatime Conversation
5:30pm-6:30pm
Fully Booked
Places Booked:
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25
The Burning Question – What is the Future of AT?
THE TIME IS NOW! There is a narrow window for change exists now to refresh the Alexander Technique. We are going to have a discussion groups on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings at 5.30pm followed by the Plenary Session Panel about the Future of AT on the Saturday morning....
Presenter(s):
Robert Fripp
David Anderson
- The O'Reilly Hall
Keynote-Plenary Session
5.30-6.30pm
Places Booked:
of
900
The legendary CONGRESS FAREWELL P A R T Y !!
Let’s dance our last night together! A live dance band TOUCAN, Toucan, aka Conor Clancy, Is a pop, funk, and soul artist from Tramore, Ireland. After releasing his debut single, we fell for miles, he quickly gained fans from around the world, accumulating over 3 million streams on spotify. Over...
Presenter(s):
Andreas Dirscherl
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Entertainment
8.00pm-late
Places Booked:
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900
Hatha Yoga Flow
Yoga Every Morning...
Presenter(s):
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00am-8:00am every morning
Fully Booked
Places Booked:
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25
Morning Run
Every day for the run. Easy peasy…folks always have a good time. We leave at 7 and done by 8. Meet in front of The Conservatory, O’Reilly Hall
...Presenter(s):
Malcolm Balk
- The Conservatory, O'Reilly Hall
Activity
7:00am-8:00am
Places Booked:
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25
Smart Yoga
Based on the work of David Moore, these 5 yoga classes focus on finding the poses that work better for you, how to do them, what your habits are, and how to work with them. Throughout this experience, you can increase your confidence in working with clients interested in yoga and movement. We’ll...
Presenter(s):
David Moore
- Exchange Room, O'Reilly Building
Activity
7.00-8.00 am
Places Booked:
of
25
Keynote – Performance
Presenter(s):
- The O'Reilly Hall
Keynote-Plenary Session
9:00am -10:15am
Places Booked:
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900
Is the Alexander Technique Past it’s Sell by Date?
Chipo Chung moved to the United Kingdom to train at RADA lured by the mystique of the Alexander Technique. Twenty five years on she reflects on the impact of the training on her life and career, and the changing needs of drama school training today.
...Presenter(s):
Chipo Chung
- The O'Reilly Hall
Keynote-Plenary Session
9:00am
Places Booked:
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900
The Burning Question – What is the Future of AT?
Keynote – TBA on AT Future...
Presenter(s):
Robert Fripp
Michael Frederick
David Anderson
- The O'Reilly Hall