ATTGP offers monthly online Alexander Technique workshops for the public on a variety of topics.
The workshops will be conducted on Zoom and cost only $10 to attend.
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2025 ATTGP Workshops:
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Embodying Progressive Values
with Ariel Weiss
Sunday, February 23, 2025
3:00 – 4:00 PM US Eastern Time
Zoom
When we change ourselves, we change the world.
Join me for this experiential workshop to explore how we can embody our progressive values in how we use our attention, intentions and actions in our relationship with our self.
How can we apply the principles of diversity, equity, inclusion and non-violent communication to how we treat ourselves, so that we can be in full alignment with our values?
Alexander’s discoveries give us a unique tool with which to redirect our startle responses into useful energy. This workshop will not address politics or world events directly and all are welcome.
Ariel Weiss has been teaching AT in Philadelphia since 1988. Trained as a dancer, she delights in helping her students move freely in cooperation with their best functioning. Ariel teaches online and in her Center City and Delaware County studios, at Curtis Institute of Music, University of Delaware and Crosslands retirement community. She also coordinates a Wellness Program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and presented her TEDX talk: Posture myth-busting in 2021. Ariel is an Alexander Technique International Sponsor and is excited to be a Continuous Learning presenter at the upcoming 13th International AT Congress in Dublin, August 2025.
More information at: www.atphila.com.
Cost: $10
Register here:https://calendly.com/
If you have questions, please contact Ariel at ariel@atphila.com.
Breathing with Your Full Body
with Heather Gardner
Monday, March 17, 2025
7:00 – 8:00 PM US Eastern Time
Zoom
Balanced Breathing for singers, actors, speakers and voice users of all kinds.
This experiential online workshop explores both sides of breathing. We will use body mapping, anatomical imagery, guided activities, and awareness exercises to expand our inhale beyond perceived limits. And by exploring the anatomy of breath, we’ll discover how to use the breath more efficiently and with greater control, flow, and choice on the exhale. We will pay particular attention to the turn around of the breath (the “onset”) and how we begin to use the air to make sound.
This workshop also includes concepts of air flow relating to resonance and vibration, and a guided deep listening exercise. You will leave with new ideas about how to explore breath on your own and deepen your mind-body-voice connection, further enabling your expressive ideas to be made into sounds through your speaking or singing voice.
Heather Gardner is an Alexander Technique Teacher and musician living, working and teaching in the Philadelphia and New York City areas. She specializes in singing 20th and 21st century works though she is equally comfortable singing Brahms, Mozart or Bach. She holds a Master’s degree in vocal performance from Rutgers University and a Bachelor’s degree in viola performance from the Eastman School of Music, where she also studied violin and voice. Heather teaches AT, singing and violin out of her West Philly studio and at the Balance Arts Center in midtown Manhattan.
More information at: https://www.heathergardnerstudio.com/
Cost: #10
Register here: https://heathergardnerstudio.com/Balanced-Breathing
If you have questions, please contact Heather at WestPhillyAT@icloud.com
Honoring Earth Day: Coming Home to the Nature of Our Body and Mind
with Anne Johnson
Monday, April 21, 2025
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM US Eastern Time
Zoom
How we care for ourselves is at the root of how we care for the earth. We are made of the same material, there is no separation. Listening to the messages of our body, invites a practice of pausing to experience the present moment. It is in the present moment that we can allow the flow patterns to integrate through our body and connect us to the bigger support of the earth and the stars beyond. Join Anne for an exploration playing with our inner and outer connections that help us return to our presence of wholeness and inner calm.
Anne Johnson has been teaching the Alexander Technique for 29 years to individuals and groups across the globe, in her private Philadelphia studio, the Mt Airy Learning Tree, as well as businesses in Philadelphia and surrounding areas. She taught at the Boyer College of Music at Temple University for 15 years. Her teaching practice includes both in-person and remote lessons and workshops. Anne finds pleasure in sharing the benefits of this rich body of work with people of all ages, skill levels, diverse professions and backgrounds.
More information at: www.alexandertechphiladelphia.com
Cost: $10
To register, contact Anne at annebeingwell@gmail.com.
360 Degrees of AT Awareness
with Amy Ward Brimmer
Monday, May 19, 2025
7:00 – 8:00 PM US Eastern Time
Zoom
One of the big changes that happens when we study and apply the Alexander Technique is a new relationship with space. Spatial awareness is limited or missing in most people, and when we learn to move with more poise and presence we open up to the space all around and deep within.
In this workshop we will explore how to boost kinesthetic sensing and practice including what’s above and below, in front and behind, and each side. We’ll play with moving through space as well as receiving the spatial qualities that touch us, even in stillness. We’ll consider how various environments affect the way we move and the way context informs the way we shape ourselves spatially.
Amy Ward Brimmer has been investigating mindfulness and self-expression since childhood. She is the owner of Way Opens Wellness in Yardley, PA, where she offers the Alexander Technique, Somatic Release bodywork, Qigong, Compassionate Listening, and Insight meditation instruction. Amy has been giving Alexander lessons since 1994, and has taught at Yale, Villanova, Brooklyn College, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and along the banks of the Delaware Canal, among many other places.
More information at: wayopenswellness.com
Cost: $10
Register here: https://wayopenswellness.com/events-1/360-degrees-of-at-awareness
If you have questions, please contact Amy at: amy@wayopenswellness.com.
The Magic Pause
with Joseph Arnold
Sunday, June 22, 2025
10:00-11:15 AM US Eastern Time
Zoom
The 3-second technique that is the single most powerful, easy-to-implement, and sure-fire method for instant relief from the tightness and tension that causes back pain and other chronic injuries.
The “Magic Pause” will allow you to reliably and quickly relieve muscle tension and strain so you can get back to doing the things you love. It’s easy to learn and you can use it to be able to sit more comfortably at the computer, play music more freely, or feel better when you exercise. In this class, you will learn the Magic Pause and how to apply it to many different activities.
Joseph Arnold is a certified Alexander Technique teacher, professional violinist, author of the award-winning Soulforce, and Director of the Soulforce Arts Institute. He is dedicated to helping artists reconnect with their creative Soulforce so they can experience greater well-being, make transcendent art, and be of greater service to a world in need.
More information at: SoulforceArts.com
Cost: $10
To register, contact Joseph at jarnold84@protonmail.com.
Summer Pause
Getting Unstuck from the Stress Cycle
with Imogen Ragone
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
4:00 – 5:00 PM US Eastern Time
Zoom
We are living in challenging times – not to mention everything else going on in our lives – and it’s easy to get stuck in a cycle of stress.
In this workshop you will explore how your thoughts, your body, and your environment can all be useful points of entry in disrupting the stress cycle.
You’ll come away with ways to reduce stress during the activities of life, as well as a practice to help calm your nervous system in just a couple of minutes.
Imogen Ragone has been a nationally certified Alexander Technique teacher for 18 years, and a student of the Technique for well over 20. She initially came to Alexander Technique to help her with chronic neck and shoulder pain and tension. It did – and gave her much more than she ever imagined. Imogen has now developed her own unique approach, BodyIntelligence, that offers a path to embodied mindfulness that is gentle and non-coercive. This means it is more accessible and effective when you are feeling stressed, and makes it especially valuable to traumatized people. Imogen has been successfully working with clients online, both individually and in groups, since 2014. More info at imogenragone.com.
Registration opens soon.
Any questions, contact Imogen at imogen@imogenragone.com
Workshop
with Anne Johnson
Monday, October 20, 2025
12 Noon -1:00 PM US Eastern Time
Zoom
Details coming soon.
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