April 20, 2022

ONLINE EVENT

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Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Instructor: Robert Britton
Time: 11am –12:15pm PDT/2pm –3:15pm EDT (1 hr. 15 min)
Cost: Donation (There is no donation too small or too large!)

This workshop will explore the anatomy of standing for peak performance and Alexander Technique coordination.

The human body has evolved magnificently to stand. Understanding how our structure wants to be tuned for being upright in gravity leads to improved coordination and more efficient movements. The models we will be using are that standing is movement, and that we have an inherent intelligent suspension system for being in the gravitational pull of Earth. We will investigate, from the feet to the head, the relationships that allow for an overall unification of muscles, joints, and bones in gravity so that large patterns of coordination coming out of the nervous system enable all parts of the body to participate together in movement. Due to time constraints, this workshop will move quickly.

This workshop will be helpful for anyone who stands (including those with standing difficulties) and for anyone who works with standing students. Anyone can go through the workshop without standing. Also people can sit down whenever they wish.

We'll have an hour to explore, then 15 minutes afterward for Q&A.

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ABOUT ROBERT BRITTON

Robert Britton trained as an Alexander Technique teacher with Frank Ottiwell and Giora Pinkas, and graduated in 1978 . In addition to his private practice he has taught the Alexander Technique to musicians at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music since 1984. He has helped train Alexander Technique Teachers since 1988 in San Francisco, Berkeley, Berlin and Hamburg.

He served as chairman of AmSAT from 1997 to 1999, and he was a faculty member of the Bay Area Summer Opera Training Institute (BASOTI) for many years. He has contributed to the well-being of the international Alexander Technique Affiliated Societies, and the Annual Members Meeting of the Affiliated Societies. He was a co-director of the International Congress of the Alexander Technique in Lugano Switzerland in 2011, serves on the ATCA Board, and is currently helping with the 2022 Congress which will be held in Berlin Germany this August. In April of 2012 Bob was awarded a George S. Sarlo Award which is given for excellence in teaching in Northern California universities and colleges.

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 at jleibowitzscholarship@amsatonline.org for your VIP code.

Learn more about the Judith Leibowitz Scholarship Fund at www.judithleibowitzscholarship.org

Your donations to the Judith Leibowitz Scholarship Fund through AmSAT, a registered nonprofit 501(c)(3), are tax-deductible.