Long-term Flexibility and Resilience
A series of Alexander Technique Workshops at the Alexander Technique Studio

The Alexander Technique invites AT teachers from around the world and these workshops are a great opportunity for furthering your Alexander Skills or as an introduction to the work. These workshops will be held at the Alexander Technique Studio.

The following 3 workshops (1, 2 & 3) are offered as a series. Participants will benefit from attending all three for a more thorough learning experience, however they are also designed as stand-alone workshops for those who may not be able to attend them all. If you have any queries about any of these workshops just get in touch. vero@isatt.ie

1. Alexander Technique:  Human Ergonomics
Saturday, March 16 11:30AM – 2PM   “AT: Human Ergonomics Module 1”

Do you find sitting, standing, reaching, typing and other work-related movement to be painful or fatiguing?  This workshop in body mechanics teaches you a simple key to efficient and painless activity.  Please bring a notebook and pen.  Wear loose clothing (no denim). Hands-on guidance will be offered.

Taught by Monika Gross, a Senior AT teacher visiting from the US
Length of Workshop:  2.5 hours  (or take the 3 together)
cost: €50 (single module), € 75 (2 modules), €100 (all 3 modules)


2. Alexander Technique:  Burnout Prevention
Saturday, March 16  3:30PM – 6PM   “AT: Burnout Prevention” Module 2

The over stimulation of 21st Century life makes real rest hard to come by!  Is your switch stuck “On” or “Off”? Are you either “Wired” or “Run Down”? Learn how to recharge your battery, finding the balance of both rest and vitality. Constructive Rest is a practical technique easily learned and applied. Please bring a notebook and pen. Wear loose clothing that you will feel comfortable lying down in (no denim). Hands-on guidance will be offered.

Taught by Monika Gross, a Senior AT teacher visiting from the US
Length of Workshop:  2.5 hours  (or take the 3 together)
cost: €50 (single module), € 75 (2 modules), €100 (all 3 modules)

3. Alexander Technique:  Pause, Think and Choose
Tuesday, March 19   7PM – 9:30PM  "AT: Pause, Think & Choose" Module 3

Do you feel stressed, burdened or overwhelmed? Learn a practical and simple approach to being responsive rather than reactive to life’s demands.  Taking time to choose is always in your control! Learn the actual physiology of human reaction and how to release unnecessary tensions in the moment, before they become locked in. Please bring a notebook and pen. Wear loose clothing (no denim). Hands on guidance will be offered.

Taught by Monika Gross, a Senior AT teacher visiting from the US
Length of Workshop:  2.5 hours  (or take the 3 together)
cost: €50 (single module), € 75 (2 modules), €100 (all 3 modules)

ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM or email me vero@isatt.ie

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DO LESS - RUN LONGER- RUN NATURALLY
ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE & RUNNING - SPECIAL INTRO COACHING
Wednesday, March 20:  6PM – 8PM

Loosen the reins and let your racehorse run!
Run with ease and satisfaction - Learn the simple reason why the Tarahumara runners of Mexico, or Ethiopian or Kenyan marathoners, appear so effortless, so still, so beautiful.... and what it really means to Run Naturally.
Think of  "Form" in a new way -- as one thought, not twenty. 
Regain a lifelong poise!
Hands on, one-to-one guidance in applying the principles of AT to your running, and to your daily life.

Taught by Monika Gross, a Senior AT teacher visiting from the US
Length of Workshop:  2.5 hours
cost: €50

ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM or email me vero@isatt.ie

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Butoh Dance workshop “The Continuity of Becoming”
Monday March 18:  4:30PM – 6:30PM
(for dancers & the general public)

The simple principles of the Alexander Technique offer a powerful means for the Butoh dancer to become a First Person Expert and enter into a personal relationship with their continuous and conscious imaginative transformation. A widened awareness of Infinite Time and Infinite Space. An undivided experience of Whole Self. Giving consent to “being danced.” Traveling with curiosity and confidence from the Known into the Unknown. Falling upward. Rising downward. Slipping effortlessly into the Between Space of infinite options. Always be-coming, never arriving, never ending.

No dance experience necessary. Butoh Dance is meant for everyone and can be explored even by individuals with movement limitations.

Monika Gross is a Senior Teacher of the Alexander Technique, teaching since 1985. She has a BFA in Drama from the NC School of the Arts and has trained in butoh over the past ten years with such teachers as Akira Kasai, Tadashi Endo, Yukio Waguri, and Atsushi Takenouchi.
Length of Workshop:  2.5 hours
cost: €40

ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM or email me vero@isatt.ie

DANCING IN INFINITE SPACE, INFINITE TIME
Alexander Technique for the Dancer & the Choreographer
Monday, March 18:  6:30PM – 9PM

Every dancer knows when even the most beautifully choreographed piece “dies” – when there is no longer that spirit of spontaneity and discovery, of fresh life, that makes it appear to be happening as if for the first time. How can the perception of repeating movements be transformed into the profound satisfaction of each step being The First Step? How can a performer disperse their commitment to how they danced yesterday in order to discover how they might wish to dance today? AT gives the dancer a powerful way of learning and performing choreography freely by expanding and taking control of the time between stimulus and response, between the intention to dance and dancing. If you would like, please bring half a minute or so of choreography that you are familiar with and that you could also teach to someone else.

Monika Gross is a Senior Teacher of the Alexander Technique, teaching since 1985. She has a BFA in Drama from the NC School of the Arts and has trained in butoh over the past ten years with such teachers as Akira Kasai, Tadashi Endo, Yukio Waguri, and Atsushi Takenouchi.
Length of Workshop:  2.5 hours
cost: €50

ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM or email me vero@isatt.ie

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“No More Sitting Up Straight!”
Positive Postural Playtime for Families
A Series of Family Classes

You can nurture, preserve and strengthen the lovely natural grace of your children’s movement before conditions of modern life start to disturb it. No more cries of “Sit up straight!”  Learn some simple and positive ways to speak to you children about “poising” rather than “straightening up”, encouraging them to “balance” rather than to “hold still”, and to “float up” rather than “settle down”. We will share games and stories that will keep your little ones fascinated while they discover their own Anti-Gravity Superpower!   Let their beautiful spiraling movement be a gentle reminder of your own innate upward evolution.

Parent/Caregiver Class
Friday, March 15 from 6PM-8PM

€45 for One parent/caregiver.  
Additional parent/caregiver of same children: €20 extra

This workshop will focus on helping you understand what triggers our springy, natural poise and how to preserve it in your children and access it yourself, at any age.  You will gain valuable insights into how changing your concepts about posture will help your children avoid the many pitfalls that disturb and gradually rob them of their own personal grace and ease.

Parent/Caregiver & Children Classes
Friday, March 15 - Monday, March 18 - Wednesday, March 20

Series of 3 Classes: €33 for 1 parent & 1 child; €17 each additional child or parent/caregiver.
Drop ins: €13 for 1 parent & 1 child; €6 each additional child or parent/caregiver.

Infants & Toddlers - ages 0-2  (10am-11am)
Learn ways of holding your baby and playing with your toddler that will keep their postural reflexes active and well integrated during their daily play.

3 to 5 Year Olds (2pm-3pm)
Stories and fun games for your children to enjoy consciously playing with their poise and challenging their balancing reflexes.  Parents can try, too!

6 to 8 Year Olds (3:15pm-4:15pm)
Engage the active imagination and social playfulness of this age group with games that give valuable lessons about their amazing ability to consciously chose between “crunching” or “floating,” “hardening” or “softening”, “holding” or “releasing” themselves into light and effortless buoyancy. Will they “tighten their reins” or “let their necks be free”? The choice is completely theirs!

9-11 Year Olds (4:30pm-5:30pm)
The older child will relish this adventure of scientific info and discovery combined with games. They will learn to be successful at turning off their big overreactions to stimuli and get heaps of praise for doing nothing at all, tricking their “startle pattern,” and keeping their cool.  What kid doesn’t enjoy saying “No!”  You can practice keeping your cool, too, in the Championship Parent-Kid Stimulus-Response Challenge!

ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM or email me vero@isatt.ie

Monika Gross

has been a certified instructor of the Alexander Technique since 1985 and is a Teaching Member of Alexander Technique International (ATI). She trained in New York City with Lydia Yohay (ACAT) and has had master classes with such renowned teachers as Marjorie Barlow, Patrick MacDonald, Marjorie Barstow and Walter Carrington. Monika taught AT privately in New York for 25 years until her relocation to Asheville in September 2010. She has been a performance coach for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company since 2003. She was 2011-12 Adjunct Instructor in the Hayes School of Music at Appalachian State University, teaching the Alexander Technique courses there, which are required for all Voice Majors. She is an active member of ATMA, Alexander Teachers of the Mountain Area, which helps promote a broader awareness of the Alexander Technique in the Blue Ridge Mountain region and beyond. Monika is a professional theater director and performer and holds a BFA degree from the UNC School of the Arts. She is the Artistic Director of At-A-Site Theater, which produces theater in unusual spaces or in familiar spaces in unusual ways. She is also trained in and performs Butoh dance. Monika has been a distance runner for 15 years and has completed 11 marathons, including three NYC Marathons (with a PR of 3:21), two Boston Marathons, the Chicago Marathon, and three Empire State Building climbs (with a PR of 17:12). She was the only American, male or female, to have ever won first place in any age group in the Maratona d’Italia Memorial Enzo Ferrari (2007).

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