The Alexander Technique is an approach to understanding human learning and development through conscious awareness and kinesthetic intelligence. It begins with identifying unconscious patterns – habits that can reveal deep creative insights as well as those that may interfere with our ability to be truly present, attend to our selves and others, and make choices. Working with the proposition that we are well designed for movement and balance, we engage our awareness to learn to trust this design and to undo or unlearn patterns of interference, creating opportunity for understanding how we use (or misuse) ourselves, for improving our coordination and functioning, and for promoting self-reflection and a profound self-knowledge that is deeply helpful for the artist. This workshop will introduce the principles of the Alexander Technique through touch, verbal instruction, movement sequences, observation and dialogue; highlighting subtlety, interior space in relation to exterior space, self in relation to others. A critical practice of moving, perceiving and responding to the world consciously and creatively rather than habitually, the Alexander Technique is used by thinkers, movers and artists of all disciplines.
What to expect:
Please expect to touch and be touched as well as engage in dialogue with the group. Bring a notebook.
Accessibility Notes
- This class/workshop includes auditive guidance.
- This class/workshop includes printed materials.
To request ASL interpretation or Audio Description, please email accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “ASL/Audio Description Request, “Shelley Senter” at least three (3) weeks prior to the class start date.
For access-related questions and requests, please contact accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “Shelley Senter.”
Class will be photographed on the Friday of the workshop.
