Events

The JLSF is pleased to present a donation based workshop series. These Wednesday workshops are held on Zoom and taught by a variety of Alexander Technique teachers from across the US and internationally. Participants donate any amount to attend. The series makes Alexander Technique available to a broad audience and generates funds for our Scholarship.

Your donations are tax-deductible. The Judith Leibowitz Scholarship Fund of AmSAT is a registered nonprofit 501(c)(3).

Complimentary tickets are available to any teachers, trainees and students who identify as Black, Indigenous or Persons of Color (BIPOC). The AT community is enhanced by an abundance of diversity and diminished without it. Please email us for your VIP code.

If you were unable to attend any of our virtual events, recordings are available through our Videos page.

April 2024

ONLINE EVENT

Inspired by the fact that Joan Skinner, creator of Skinner Release Technique, had Alexander Technique classes with Judith Leibowitz as a young dancer, this session is a full body supple movement and anatomy class that aspires to awaken the psycho-physical self, bringing both our materiality and attention to the present.

For this workshop you will need headphones or earpods. It would be great if you have access to a movement studio, or some warm empty space at home, but it will also work sitting on a chair or lying down on a not very soft surface. Please also bring some pens and paper, water, and something to keep you cozy. Pets and kids welcomed.

As, since the pandemic, online mediums have been contributing to the sharing of commons, while offering consistency to remote communities reversing some of the discomfort of social distancing, landing onto a shared inner landscape without surveillance, avoiding the authority of mirrors and subconscious assumptions to synchronise/compare/adjust, we will stay connected on earpods, a trully intimate proximity as we will be as close as into each other's heads. Could this new genre of closeness repair the temporary absence of hands-on? What is the role of poetic imagery in this teaching, and how can we further conceptualise the circumstances of the medium? Looking forward to connect and working together. --Georgia

DETAILS

Date: April 10, 2024
Instructors: Georgia Paizi
Time: 11 am –12:00 pm PDT/2:00 –3:00 pm EDT (1 hr. )

Cost: Donation (No donation is too small or too large!)

This event has passed. Please visit our Videos page to access the recording.

May 2024

ONLINE EVENT

Using Imagery and Metaphor in Teaching and Self Work

Imagery creates or re-creates an experience in the mind that filters into our lived experience. From my earliest lessons, I would see images or moving pictures in my mind correlating to the sensations and instructions my teachers gave me. As I started to teach, I continued to get these "movies" in my mind as I saw and felt changes in my students. I have always wanted to make Alexander Technique simpler and more accessible for every kind of student and for many of my students, imagery has been very effective. We will explore types of imagery and metaphor that help illustrate and demonstrate the concepts and skills of Alexander Technique. You can create imagery through language, by showing pictures or with animation or video. Come prepared to try on some of my go-to ways of using imagery, share your favorites, and perhaps create your own during the workshop.

You will want space to sit, stand and lie down for some of our explorations.

DETAILS

Date: May 22, 2024
Instructors: Brooke Lieb
Time: 11 am –12:00 pm PDT/2:00 –3:00 pm EDT (1 hr. )

Cost: Donation (No donation is too small or too large!)

June 2024

ONLINE EVENT

Basic Balance with Wolfgang Weiser

This class is investigating our act of balance.

It includes the principles of the Alexander Technique in simple movement explorations to engage and re-organize your relationship with the environment.

Please bring a soft item you feel comfortable balancing on your head, have some space to move and if possible also a mirror you can see yourself during class.

DETAILS

Date: June 12, 2024
Instructors: Wolfgang Weiser
Time: 11 am –12:00 pm PDT/2:00 –3:00 pm EDT (1 hr. )

Cost: Donation (No donation is too small or too large!)