The 2018 Toronto Alexander Technique Summer Workshop
“Mindfulness in Action”
July 5 – July 8, 2018
9-5, Thursday-Saturday; 9-12 Sunday
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 7, 7-9pm.
Join Studio Director, Susan Sinclair and Visiting Adjunct Teacher and Physiotherapist, Sakiko Ishitsubo for this intensive three and one-half day workshop.
Sakiko Ishitsubo
Fee: $350.00; All are welcome.
Registration can be done online; by email to susan@sinclairstudio.com; or by calling 416 603 2650.
Karen Carlson, Pilates Chairs Workshop, November 22-24, 2019
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KAREN CARLSON
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November 22-24, 2019
Schedule: 10am – 1pm and 230 – 530pm each day.
Karen Carlson reveals the depth and breadth of exercises for the Wunda, Combo, High Back and Arm Chairs. Understand how spring load, line of pull and various props are key to having your clients of all sizes, proportions and levels succeed. See the full spectrum of specific correctives to large range advanced exercises!
Workshop Fee: $750 + HST
Registration: contact Studio Director, Susan Sinclair.
Alexander Technique and Dance, Movement and Performance Practice, November 26-30, 2018
/in Susan's Blog /by rjThis is a five-day class in applying the Alexander Technique to dance, movement practice and performance.
November 26-30, 10am-noon, at Dovercourt House.
Check website for registration details: http://tolovein.com/thinking-in-action-susan-sinclair/
Open House
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For those specifically interested in training come and join us for an informative talk regarding the training program, 630-7pm, prior to the evening’s Activity Class.
Those attending the Open House introductory talk will be invited to attend the evening’s Activity Class free of charge.
Contact the Director of Training, Susan Sinclair, 416 603 2650.
The 2018 Toronto Alexander Technique Summer Workshop
/in Uncategorized /by rjThe 2018 Toronto Alexander Technique Summer Workshop
“Mindfulness in Action”
July 5 – July 8, 2018
9-5, Thursday-Saturday; 9-12 Sunday
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 7, 7-9pm.
Join Studio Director, Susan Sinclair and Visiting Adjunct Teacher and Physiotherapist, Sakiko Ishitsubo for this intensive three and one-half day workshop.
Sakiko Ishitsubo
Fee: $350.00; All are welcome.
Registration can be done online; by email to susan@sinclairstudio.com; or by calling 416 603 2650.
Karen Carlson, February 10-11, 2018
/in Uncategorized /by rjReformer Workshop with Senior Pilates Teacher
KAREN CARLSON
Saturday and Sunday, February 10 – 11, 2018
Schedule: 10am – 1pm and 230 – 530pm each day.
This 2-day workshop will review the Universal Reformer forms, variations and uses. A new look at tradition and the use of the reformer as a diagnostic tool for structural and functional problems (closed kinetic chain). Expanded and evolved forms are also included for fitness and correctives.
Workshop Fee: $500 + HST
Registration: contact Studio Director, Susan Sinclair.
Erik Bendix Visit, December 9-10, 2017
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Exploring the Developmental Movement Patterns from
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s Body-Mind Centering
Saturday/Sunday, December 9 – 10, 2017, Sinclair Studio.
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.