Erik Bendix Visit, December 9-10, 2017

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Erik Bendix Visit

Exploring the Developmental Movement Patterns from

Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s Body-Mind Centering

Saturday/Sunday, December 9 – 10, 2017, Sinclair Studio.

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Schedule

Saturday, December 9; 9am-12pm, 2-5pm

Sunday, December 10; 10am-1pm

$325 + HST

Erik Bendix is an AmSAT-certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique. He trained in the 1990s with Frank Ottiwell, Joan and Alex Murray, and Walter Carrington. Erik assisted on Vivien and Neil Schapera’s Cincinnati training for five years, worked with musicians with Vivien Mackie, helped represent the Technique at the 2012-13 Embodied Mind conferences in Paris and Gargonza and taught Alexander Technique in Taiwan and at Pomona College. He is trained in both Dart Procedures© and Body-Mind Centering, disciplines that explore how movement develops in infants. He trained in BMC® with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in the 1990s, created The Learning Curve workshops to explore scoliosis, and developed his own Ease on Skis ski teaching method based on the Technique which he has taught at many workshops. Trained as a philosopher at Oxford and Princeton, Erik is a published poet and is known worldwide as a folk dance teacher.

Contact the Director of Training, Susan Sinclair, 416 603 2650.

Martha Hansen Fertman Visit, June, 2017

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June 10-12, 2017, Martha Hansen Fertman, senior Alexander teacher in the Barstow Lineage, will be visiting the Alexander Technique Teacher Training Program during the regular June training week.

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As this will be Martha’s only visit to Toronto this year, in addition to leading the training during these three days she will also be leading the “Working in Action” evening class, from 7-9pm on Saturday, June 10.

Teachers and trainees interested in attending the Saturday evening workshop can register online.

Those interested in visiting the Training Program during Martha’s visit may also contact the Director of Training, Susan Sinclair, 416 603 2650.

Karen Carlson, February 8-10, 2019

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Cadillac Workshop with Senior Pilates Teacher

KAREN CARLSON

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Friday, Saturday and Sunday, February 8 – 10, 2019

Schedule: 10am – 1pm and 230 – 530pm each day.

This 3-day workshop will include: Trapeze Table forms, variations and uses. Benefits for corrective exercise and performance enhancement including specialty forms for dance. Classical vocabulary and evolved forms are both deconstructed and integrated into fluid movement.This comprehensive look at traditional exercises includes the classical forms for spring-bar, swing-bar, and trapeze on the table as well as standing exercises off both ends, hanging from the top bars and side rails, and standing on the bed.

Workshop Fee:  $750 + HST

Registration:  contact Studio Director, Susan Sinclair.

Karen H. Carlson is a seasoned professional with over 30 years of client-based field experience and 15 years of training teachers. Certified in the Pilates Method by Pilates Elder Mary Bowen in 1987 and Master Certified by Pilates Elder Eve Gentry in 1991, Carlson’s graduate studies at Smith College focused on the scientific foundations of movement to aid the teaching of modern dance and ballet, using functional anatomy, biomechanics, kinesiology, and physics of movement. Ms. Carlson conducts advanced teacher-training programs from her studios in Philadelphia, PA and Medford, NJ (USA) and has given workshops and lecture-demonstrations at colleges, universities and private studios on the East Coast and Canada since 1995. Carlson is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine, the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science, and the Somatics Society.
 

 

 

Annual Summer Workshop

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The 2017 Toronto Alexander Technique Summer Workshop

“Mindfulness in Action”

July 6 – July 9, 2017
9-5, Thursday-Saturday; 9-12 Sunday
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We are designed for movement. Inherent in our design is an incredible capacity for ease, flexibility, power and expressiveness; whether we are dancing, hammering a nail, working at a computer, singing or simply walking. All too often we unknowingly interfere with this design; replacing energy, delight, and grace with effort, tension and fatigue.

This three and a half day workshop is designed for both new and experienced students of the Alexander Technique as well as those considering teacher training. We will study basic principles of Alexander’s work, applying the technique to the interests of the participants: work skills, daily activities, playing music or sports, voice or dance.

Participants are also invited to attend the Saturday evening “Thinking in Activity” class scheduled for July 8, 7-9pm.

Join Studio Director, Susan Sinclair and Visiting Adjunct Teacher and Physiotherapist, Sakiko Ishitsubo for this intensive three and one-half day workshop.

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Fee: $350.00; All are welcome.

Registration can be done online; by email to susan@sinclairstudio.com; or by calling 416 603 2650.

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Thinking in Action

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Thinking in Action, Saturdays, 7-9pm

with

the Director of the Alexander Technique

Teacher Training Program

Susan Sinclair

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Remaining dates in 2017:  July 8.

Saturday evenings of each training weekend will be open to any student or teacher interested in the Technique.

These classes will focus on assisting students in the application of the Alexander Technique directly into the activities of their lives; either in relation to performance (i.e. with an instrument, dancing, singing) or in relation to any daily activity or task (i.e. cycling, running, gardening, computer work, household chores).

The July 8 class is concurrent with  the Annual Summer Workshop.

Both events are open to teachers and graduates, as well as trainees and the general public.

Upcoming dates:   Jul 8

Class Fee:  $25 (HST Included)

Those interested in attending can register online or contact Director of Training, Susan Sinclair, 416 603 2650.

Martha Hansen Fertman Graduate Training Class, june 11, 2016

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Graduate Training Class
Martha Hansen Fertman
Saturday, June 11, 3-5pm
Sinclair Studio, 151 Markham Street, Toronto

Martha Hansen Fertman

As part of her June visit to the Sinclair Studio Alexander Technique Teacher Training Program, Senior Alexander teacher in the Barstow Lineage, Martha Hansen Fertman will be leading an afternoon class for graduates and trainees.

Class Fee:  $50 (HST Included)

Teachers, trainees and graduates interested in attending can register online or by contacting Director of Training, Susan Sinclair, 416 603 2650.