Alexander demo

Open House

Open House:  Saturday, April 6, July 6, 2019

Alexander demo

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.

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The 2018 Toronto Alexander Technique Summer Workshop

The 2018 Toronto Alexander Technique Summer Workshop

“Mindfulness in Action”

July 5 – July 8, 2018
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 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

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

Reformer Workshop with Senior Pilates Teacher

KAREN CARLSON

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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.

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.
 

 

 

Erik Bendix Visit, December 9-10, 2017

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

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

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.