Sixth Annual International
ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE Online Summit

Brought to you by Alexander Technique Teachers of Greater Philadelphia (ATTGP)

Finding Balance in Ourselves and the World

Free Classes for the Public

January 19-24, 2026

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Do any of the following sound familiar?

Discover what fuels your stiffness, feeds your anxiety, creates that hurry mode, and wears you out.

The versatility of the Alexander Technique (AT) addresses all this and more. 

With the Alexander Technique you can reclaim your natural coordination, and learn how to coach yourself to be more present, connected and comfortable in your own skin.

Alexander Technique offers you resilience in mind and body, deep connection with yourself, others and the world, and a community of like-minded people.

Join us for our sixth annual international Alexander Technique Online Summit. This year’s theme is Finding Balance in Ourselves and the World. 

During this week-long event our teachers will share their expertise in both introductory classes, and in workshops and events on a variety of topics and applications. 

All for FREE.

Attend one session, attend them all. It’s totally up to you! 

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Meet our presenters and see our full schedule of events below.

The Week-Long Summit includes:

Daily Guided Constructive Rest Sessions

Each day one of our ATTGP teachers will lead a guided Constructive Rest session. Constructive Rest is a way of lying down in a semi-supine position (typically on the back with the knees elevated) that promotes good spinal alignment and release of excess tension. It is also known as “Active Rest,” “Semi-Supine” or simply an “Alexander Lie Down.” These sessions provide a simple yet powerful way to find balance, ease, and alertness, offering participants a time of rest, thoughtful awareness, and insights into your body’s amazing design.

Two to Three Additional Events Each Day

Our unique line up of live online classes, workshops and presentations are being lead by our Alexander Technique teachers at ATTGP on a variety of topics, from stress relief and embodiment, to speaking, walking, mindfulness, pausing and much more. It’s a chance to learn from different teachers with different styles and areas of expertise. Whatever your interest, whether you are brand new to AT, are coming back to it after a while, or have studied for years, there’s something for everyone!

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SUMMIT SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Note: All times are US Eastern Time. All sessions are conducted live in real time! 
Use this Time Zone Converter to find your time.

Monday, January 19, 2026

Balancing from the Ground Up and Coming to Our Senses 

with Anne Johnson
Monday, 11:00 AM – 12 Noon US Eastern Time

How often are we stuck in our heads and disconnected from our senses? Are we listening to the messages our body is giving us?  Join Anne in this beginner’s workshop as she guides you to enliven your sensory experience and expansive awareness. We will acknowledge the ground as a source of support, connection and direction and explore how it can provide a springboard for experiencing the dynamic relationships of balance within the body and mind.

Anne Johnson has been teaching the Alexander Technique for 30 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

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Space and Balance:  The Acoustics of the Voice

with Kathryn Armour
Monday, 2:00 -3:00 PM US Eastern Time

As a voice and AT teacher, the question I am most asked is: “how do I teach people to project their voice ?”

Answer: That is not a do-able action. Instead, let us investigate the physics of sound (acoustics) and how sound is produced and amplified within the body.   

How do you coordinate your voice to be audible and intelligible?  How do you discover your inner microphone?

Kathryn Armour (M.A. University of Chicago), studied voice in Florence, Italy for 5 years, and then voice and acting in New York City. She was a finalist in both the Metropolitan Opera and Pavarotti Competitions and has professional credits in all genres from opera to cabaret. She taught vocal technique at New York University for 17 years. During her university tenure, she was also certified as an Alexander teacher by ATI. She trained in the Philadelphia school, and also studied with Barbara Kent, Marjorie Barstow, Mio Morales, Rika Cohen, Ann Rodiger, Caren Bayer and others. Kathryn teaches Voice + Alexander for classical and Broadway singers and actors in her Manhattan studio. Since 2000, she has worked intensively with small groups of singers at her Voice and Alexander Academy, the last two weeks of June, at Lake Como in the Italian Alps. Kathryn has presented workshops at the Alexander Technique Congresses in Limerick, Chicago, Berlin, and most recently in Dublin in August 2025.
More information at: www.KathrynArmourStudio.com

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Guided Constructive Rest

with Amy Ward Brimmer
Tuesday, 4:00 – 4:30 PM US Eastern Time

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

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Introduction to Alexander’s Discoveries

with Ariel Weiss
Monday, 8:00 – 9:00 PM US Eastern Time

So what IS the Alexander Technique, anyway? Alexander Technique has been around for over 120 years yet hardly anyone has heard of it and we often hear either what it isn’t (it isn’t physical therapy or exercise for instance) or a lot of jargony, mysterious language like “the use of the self”. This workshop is an introduction to Alexander’s discoveries for Summit attendees that are new or newer to the Technique. Our goal is to provide a brief history and simple framework to help understand the Technique, experience the foundational principles of the work, plus define commonly used AT terms to help newcomers to get the most out of the week’s offerings.

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 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 was a Continuous Learning presenter at the recent 13^th International AT Congress in Dublin, August 2025. 
More information at: www.atphila.com.

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

The Magic Pause

with Joseph Arnold
Tuesday, 11:00 AM – 12:00 Noon US Eastern Time

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

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Support in Challenging Times: Alexander Technique, Neurobiology, and the Art of Finding Ease

with Imogen Ragone
Tuesday, 2:30 – 3:30 PM US Eastern Time

For this presentation Imogen will be joined by her long-time client, trauma awareness educator Shay Seaborne. As Shay studied neurobiology and neuroscience to help them understand and resolve PTSD, they increasingly understood that the Alexander Technique (AT) provides a highly neuropositive approach and practice. In recent years Shay and Imogen have collaborated to offer workshops and courses for people dealing with trauma or chronic stress, combining Shay’s experience as a trauma survivor and their understanding of the neuroscience relating to trauma with the practical, mindful tools and concepts from Imogen’s BodyIntelligence work, which is founded in AT principles. In this session we’ll explore how understanding your body’s natural responses to stress can help you navigate periods of upheaval with greater ease, and will share a simple practice that invites embodied presence and supports the regulation of your nervous system.

Imogen Ragone has been a nationally certified Alexander Technique teacher for 19 years, and a student of the Technique for many more. 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 information at imogenragone.com

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Guided Constructive Rest

with Meade Andrews
Tuesday, 4:00 – 4:30 PM US Eastern Time

Meade Andrews has been introducing individuals and groups to the exciting discoveries of F.M. Alexander, a pioneer in the art of CHOICE and CHANGE, for 40 years. Meade is an internationally recognized senior teacher of the Alexander Technique. For 12 years she taught theatre, dance and the Alexander Technique at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and she continues to offer classes and workshops at Westminster Choir College. She is the former director of the Dance Program at American University, Washington, DC, and has also served as an acting teacher, and acting coach for over 30 theatrical productions. She currently maintains a private Alexander Technique practice in the Princeton, NJ area teaching people in all walks of life, including including performing artists, computer workers, teachers, and business professionals. 
More information at: alextechgreaterphila.com/meade-andrews

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Creating Community: Harmonizing with Ourselves and Each Other

with Judith Saxton
Tuesday, 7:00 – 8:00 PM US Eastern Time

Recalling that Alexander Technique is where mindfulness and movement meet in activity, we’ll first time-travel through the ‘Magic of 3’ to experience your own brain/body reconciliation.

Self:  We’ll come to quiet to recognize peace and compassion within.

Stuff:  We’ll discover how this ‘less is more’ agreement with our ‘stuff’ grants us the space and time to align our mind with our heart — and therefore more easily resonate with others. 

Others:  Familiarize yourself here with an array of body-based practices that spark deeper personal and interpersonal relationships.

Judith Saxton, a 35-year musician and educator, has studied Alexander Technique since 1991. She is a 2015 graduate of the NC Teacher Training program of Chesapeake Bay Alexander Studies and a Certified teacher with Alexander Technique International (ATI). She has ‘Boosted the Brain-Body Bond’ for both individuals and groups of all ages around the world.  Judith offers transformational guidance via undoing and unlearning, whether online or in-person. She offers guest artist residencies that incorporate her somatic and musical worlds to amplify her students’ ‘voice’ and creativity. Judith is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator (R.S.M.E). of the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA).
More information at: www.judithsaxton.com

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Gentle warm up for the spine through Alexander Technique and Functional Awareness®

with Nancy Romita
Wednesday, 8:00 – 8:45 AM US Eastern Time

This morning session guides one through gentle movements in a chair and on the floor to support both stability and mobility and provides ways to invite spinal integrity moving through the rest of your day. The session is grounded in Alexander Technique principles & integrates Functional Awareness®.  Functional Awareness® is a somatic method that integrates anatomical imagery with current research in motor learning to design specific verbal, visual, tactile, and proprioceptive cueing strategies to discover ease in action and improve movement skills.

Nancy Wanich-Romita (MFA, RSME, M.AmSAT RYT) is an Alexander Teacher, dance educator, yogi, keynote speaker, & co-author of Functional Awareness and Yoga and Functional Awareness Anatomy in Action for Dancers published by Oxford University Press. Romita is a Teaching professor at Towson University, former director of Alexander Technique Midatlantic Teacher Training, initiated Johns Hopkins Hospital to build a labyrinth at the medical center to support a reflective practice to support wellness and healing. Her research has been presented at International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, NDEO, AmSAT ACGMs, & Alexander Technique International Congress.
More information at www.functionalawareness.org

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Guided Constructive Rest

with Ariel Weiss
Wednesday, 10:00 – 10:30 AM US Eastern Time

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Resonance and the Senses: How Our Body Engages with the World

with Heather Gardner
Wednesday, 3:00 – 4:00 PM US Eastern Time

In this workshop we will explore the different ways we experience and interact with the world. Through guided activities and interactive discussion we will practice integrating our senses with our surroundings and discover new ways we resonate and create harmony with the space around us.

Heather Gardner is an Alexander Technique teacher and musician living and teaching in Philadelphia, PA and Sevilla, Spain. She is on the faculty of the Balance Arts Center in New York City and maintains an in-person and online studio teaching Alexander Technique and Voice lessons.
More information at: heathergardnerstudio.com

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What you think is What you Get!

with Meade Andrews
Wednesday, 7:00 – 8:00 PM US Eastern Time

When FM Alexander developed laryngitis at the beginning of his acting career, he decided to find out what went wrong! He gradually realized that his approach to talking and moving was based on false information: “Stand up straight,” “shoulders back,” “lift your chest and chin.”

He was forced to STOP, and learn to connect with the actual facts of his body’s design. He realized that his body and mind were in a constant two-way dialogue. And this dialogue could either be based on misinformation or anatomical truth: he discovered that what you think is what you get.

In this session, we will explore the “friendly facts” of our coordination via The 5 Cues: grounding, centering, suspending and expanding, poising, and flying. This sequence enlivens and supports your personal journey with Alexander’s core process: the awakening and enhancing of your lively mind/body connection in all activities.

Meade Andrews has been introducing individuals and groups to the exciting discoveries of F.M. Alexander, a pioneer in the art of CHOICE and CHANGE, for 40 years. Meade is an internationally recognized senior teacher of the Alexander Technique. For 12 years she taught theatre, dance and the Alexander Technique at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and she continues to offer classes and workshops at Westminster Choir College. She is the former director of the Dance Program at American University, Washington, DC, and has also served as an acting teacher, and acting coach for over 30 theatrical productions. She currently maintains a private Alexander Technique practice in the Princeton, NJ area teaching people in all walks of life, including including performing artists, computer workers, teachers, and business professionals. 
More information at: alextechgreaterphila.com/meade-andrews

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Alexander Technique & Functional Awareness® to Enhance our Systems for Balance

with Nancy Romita
Thursday,9:00 -10:00 AM US Eastern Time

Each person navigates balance through a unique body construct and varied learning styles. This workshop integrates Alexander Technique principles with a method of embodied learning called Functional Awareness®.  Functional Awareness® is a practical somatic approach that uses anatomical imagery and current research in motor learning to foster physical ease in action and a mental practice that supports self-agency and wellbeing. Participants are guided through gentle movement explorations and practice a series of specific verbal, auditory, visual, tactile, and proprioceptive cueing strategies that broaden the pathways to discover stability and ease in action.

Nancy Wanich-Romita (MFA, RSME, M.AmSAT RYT) is an Alexander Teacher, dance educator, yogi, keynote speaker, & co-author of Functional Awareness and Yoga and Functional Awareness Anatomy in Action for Dancers published by Oxford University Press. Romita is a Teaching professor at Towson University, former director of Alexander Technique Midatlantic Teacher Training, initiated Johns Hopkins Hospital to build a labyrinth at the medical center to support a reflective practice to support wellness and healing. Her research has been presented at International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, NDEO, AmSAT ACGMs, & Alexander Technique International Congress.
More information at www.functionalawareness.org

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Guided Constructive Rest

with Imogen Ragone
Thursday, 11:00 – 11:30 AM US Eastern Time

Imogen Ragone has been a nationally certified teacher of the Alexander Technique since 2006. She has developed her own unique approach called BodyIntelligence, which integrates mindfulness, posture and self-care, to give her clients practical strategies to relieve and prevent stress and tension. Her approach has been particularly beneficial to clients suffering from emotional stress and even trauma. Constructive Rest is Imogen’s all-time favorite self-care practice. She has given hundreds of guided Constructive Rest talks over the years. Her students love it and she hopes you will, too!
More information at imogenragone.com

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The Art of Walking: Inhibition and Direction in Action

with Diane Young Sussman
Thursday, 12:00 – 1:00 PM US Eastern Time

The Alexander Technique holds a key for dynamic balance and improvement of our co-ordination within daily activities.

In this class we will break down the essential elements of coordinated walking for the purpose of experiencing renewed freedom in our movement patterns in general, and walking in particular.

Diane Young Sussman found the Alexander Technique in 1983 and had a profound experience of diminished back pain and renewed co-ordination for her dance career. She went on to train at ACAT in New York City, and later joined the Faculty in training teachers, a very fulfilling educational experience that kept her asking questions and evolving her own mastery of the Technique. Diane has taught at SUNY Stony Brook and Montclair University in the music departments, and also kept a very lively private practice first in the New York area and now in Philadelphia.  The Covid shutdown expanded her desire to reach more students online, which she now incorporates as part of her outreach, bringing more people to experiencing this valuable body-mind work.
More information at: www.bodymindbalance.net

Friday, January 23, 2026

The Ministry of Silly Everything: Humor and the AT

with Amy Ward Brimmer
Friday, 11:00 AM – 12 Noon US Eastern Time

Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
– Aldous Huxley

Are you “preposterously serious” too? It’s easy to become so, especially when learning the AT.  Our unconscious habits of tension and misalignment are certainly troublesome, but they don’t have to be the enemy. What if the patterns you encounter and wish to change are amusing, entertaining, even funny?

In this workshop we will laugh at ourselves, without losing depth or respect for our bodies and minds. It has been said that there is a jewel embedded in our habits, and it may be the jewel of humor based on humility. When we don’t take ourselves or this process too seriously, we discover a kind acceptance of our human foibles. When we lighten up, we become flexible, resilient, and responsive to each unfolding moment.

Come prepared to discover and share your weirdest habits of misuse, and any stories from lessons or life that will make us all laugh. We are absurd creatures, to be sure. Let’s play with that truth lightly together, just to see what happens.

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

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Guided Constructive Rest

with Anne Johnson
Friday, 12:30 – 1:00 PM US Eastern Time

Anne Johnson has been teaching the Alexander Technique for 30 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

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What is your Heart’s Song?

with Judith Saxton
Friday, 3:00 – 4:15 PM US Eastern Time

Boosting our brain body bond through the Alexander Technique enables our thoughts, speech and actions to be heart-led, spirit-fueled, and wisdom-filled.  Pragmatic examples of ‘Boosting’ our body, speech and mind will be shared, and we’ll mine our collective creativity for ideas that cultivate the needed courage to share our heart’s song.

Deep listening will be then be offered to those who choose to share their offerings, musical and otherwise, for individual coaching through the principles of the Alexander Technique.

Warning: Freedom, Ease and JOY will be in abundance during this experience, if you find these embolden your heart’s song, you are encouraged to attend!

Judith Saxton, a 35-year musician and educator, has studied Alexander Technique since 1991. She is a 2015 graduate of the NC Teacher Training program of Chesapeake Bay Alexander Studies and a Certified teacher with Alexander Technique International (ATI). She has ‘Boosted the Brain-Body Bond’ for both individuals and groups of all ages around the world.  Judith offers transformational guidance via undoing and unlearning, whether online or in-person. She offers guest artist residencies that incorporate her somatic and musical worlds to amplify her students’ ‘voice’ and creativity. Judith is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator (R.S.M.E). of the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA).
More information at: www.judithsaxton.com

Saturday, January 24, 2026

How to Stop Figuring Out Your Tension and Just Let Go

with Joseph Arnold
Saturday, 10:00 – 11:00 AM US Eastern Time

You’ve studied your patterns. You’ve analyzed your use. You know your Alexander Technique. So why does tension still grip you when it matters most?
 
This workshop asks a radically simple question: What if the very attempt to “figure it out” was the root cause of your tension?
 
When you stop grasping at concepts – even helpful ones – something unexpected happens. The hypervigilance that fuels tension dissolves. You touch a quality of innate ease and presence that can reliably be found in any activity, at any moment – no matter what.

No more trying to trying to release. No more struggling to go “forward and up.” Just an immediate freedom and joy that comes out of nowhere.
 
Sound too good to be true? There’s only one way to find out! In this workshop, we’ll practice together, exploring “not knowing” as a doorway to the freedom that lives beneath all our attempts to get it right.
 
For AT teachers and students ready to go deeper. All welcome.

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

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Guided Constructive Rest

with Mary McCann
Saturday, 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM US Eastern Time

Mary McCann, Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique, offers AT lessons in the Philadelphia area and online. Mary trained as a professional actor with Broadway actor and director Gordon Phillips. Other training includes Catholic University (BA, Drama,) Marquette University, and Arena Stage. Mary has presented the AT at Harvard University, Bryn Mawr College, DeSales University, The Wilma Theater, Pennsylvania Hospital, and many other institutions.
More information at: www.explorealexander.com

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Closing Celebration! 

Saturday, 3:00 – 4:00 PM US Eastern Time

Please join us for this final event of our Online Summit to celebrate the week’s offerings.

ATTGP members will share important moments from their own Alexander Technique journey, and you will have the chance to share some of yours. 

This session will also be our last opportunity to experience moments of Alexander Technique goodness together.

All are welcome – please help us close the week’s events with this celebratory send-off!

You must register for the Summit to get access to the classes.
You may attend as many as you wish!

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Learn more about ATTGP at: alextechgreaterphila.com

ATTGP Summit Administrator: Imogen Ragone, info@alextechgreaterphila.com.