Alexander Technique - 31st Summer Residential Workshop at Sweet Briar College

Conference Teachers
Asterisks indicate week(s) in-attendance :  * 1st week   ** 2nd week   *** both weeks
 

*** MICHAEL D. FREDERICK
Michael is an internationally recognized teacher in the field of Psycho-physical Re-education. He trained as an Alexander Teacher in England with Walter Carrington and in America with Marjorie Barstow, both master teachers trained by F. M. Alexander. Michael studied in the US and Israel as a Feldenkrais Practitioner and has extensive Yoga training in both the US and India. He is the founding director of the first three International Congresses on the Alexander Technique and has organized over 150 workshops in the US and Europe since 1978 . Michael was voted best Alexander Teacher in Los Angeles magazine’s “Best of LA”.

** JOHN NICHOLLS
trained in London from 1973 to 1976 with Walter and Dilys Carrington, and afterwards assisted the Carringtons daily on their teacher training course for eleven years. He has subsequently directed Alexander teacher training programs in England, Australia, and the USA. His book, The Alexander Technique: In Conversation with John Nicholls and Sean Carey, was published in 1991. John, along with Nanette Walsh, is currently director of the ATNYC Alexander teacher training program in New York City. He maintains a private practice in New York, and directs postgraduate programs for teachers in the USA, UK, and other European countries.

*** LUCIA WALKER
lives in Oxford, England but trains and teaches internationally. Since qualifying as an Alexander Technique teacher in 1987, Lucia has taught individuals, groups, and on teacher training courses in Europe, America, and Japan. She continues to work as an independent dance teacher and performer specializing in improvisations.
*** LYN CHARLSEN
is director for the Alexander Technique Institute, Los Angeles. She has been an Alexander Technique teacher for the University of Southern California School of Theatre, USC Music School/Opera Division, and also for California State University. An Alexander Technique teacher for 27 years, Lyn trains A.T. teachers and practices in Van Nuys and San Monica, CA.
*FRANCES MARSDEN
trained as an Alexander teacher at the Constructive Teaching Center in London with Walter and Dilys Carrington and has been teaching almost thirty years. She did two years post-graduate work at
the Urbana Center for the Alexander Technique, directed by Joan and Alex Murray. Prior to her Alexander training, Frances studied acting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow. She is a member of the faculty and Board of the Alexander Training Institute of Los Angeles. She teaches at USC, Occidental College, and California State University at Los Angeles. She also teaches for Shakespeare at the Huntington”and “Intimate Opera Company.” She maintains private practices in North Hollywood and Pasadena California.
**JUDY STERN
has been a physical therapist for 40 years and an Alexander Technique teacher for 23 years. Judy specializes in chronic or acute pain conditions, combining her knowledge of physical therapy and anatomy with her knowledge and skill as an Alexander Technique teacher. A senior member of the ACAT faculty, Judy also maintains a private practice in Rye, New York.

Martha Hansen Fertman*** MARTHA HANSEN FERTMAN
has been teaching the Alexander Technique for thirty years. In 1983 she co-founded an innovative teacher training program that has evolved into the Alexander Alliance, an international consortium of Alexander teacher training. She comes to the Alexander Technique through a broad base of movement studies from all types of dance to T'ai Chi Chuan and Authentic Movement. Her training in AT includes a 10-year apprenticeship with Marjorie Barstow as well as studies with Catherine Wielopolska and Elisabeth Walker, all first generation teachers.

BARBARA KENT (on sabbatical in 2010)
is former director of teacher training at the American Center for the Alexander Technique (ACAT) in New York. Barbara began her carreer by studying singing at Julliard School of Music. She is a certified Rubenfield Synergy Method Practitioner and a student of Carl Stough, integrating his principles of breathing coordination into her work. Barbara has been training Alexander Technique teachers and working in private practice for over 30 years in NYC.
*** FRANK SHELDON
trained as an Alexander Teacher in London from 1975 to 1978. He is the former Director of The Virginia School for Alexander Technique, and guest teacher on other teacher training courses. Over the last 24 years, he has presented the Alexander Technique and performance classes for Guitar Craft in the US, Europe and South America. Frank is currently living and teaching in Seattle as well as directing ongoing classes for the Seattle Guitar Circle and Tuning The Air, a location-based performing team.
* MEADE ANDREWS
Meade currently resides in Boca Raton Florida, where she joined the faculty of the graduate acting program at Florida Atlantic University in 2002. She maintains a private practice in the Alexander Technique in Florida, and also travels to teach in New York and Washington DC where she continues to present workshops at the Studio Theatre, her professional base for over 15 years. Meade has been teaching the Alexander Technique for 24 years, and also works as an acting coach and movement consultant for theatre productions. She recently completed a course in the Alexander Technique and the Art of Breathing with Jessica Wolf at ACAT.
* CAROL BOGGS
Carol is an Alexander Teacher, Laban Movement Analyst, and Massage Therapist with B.S. and M.A. degrees in Dance. She practices in greater Washington DC, and has joined faculties teaching for AT residential courses in the U SA, Japan, and the Caribbean. In 2003 she completed Jessica Wolf ’s post graduate course, “The Art of Breathing”. Carol has been teaching the Alexander Technique since 1980.

** NANETTE WALSH
received her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1982 specializing in the linguistic analysis of movement. She received her teacher certification from the American Center for the Alexander Technique in 1995. In 1999 she began an intensive course of study and correspondence with Peggy Williams and Walter Carrington in London, continuing until their deaths in 2003 and 2005 respectively. Nanette has previously taught at ACAT.  She is currently, along with John Nicholls, director of AT·NYC’s Teacher Certification Program. She maintains a private teaching practice in New York City. Nanette is also a long-time practitioner of Tai Chi Chuan.

*** CAROL P. PRENTICE
trained in the mid-1980s as an Alexander Teacher with Frank Ottiwell in San Francisco. She subsequently furthered her training with first generation Alexander Teachers Marjorie Barstow,
Walter & Dilys Carrington, and Marjory Barlow. She has been teaching this work for over 25 years. Carol is also a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist and graduate of the California College of Ayurveda. She currently teaches at the California College of Ayurveda and has an Alexander Practice in Grass Valley California. Carol is enrolled in a three year Yoga teacher training in the tradition of Sri T. Krishnamacharya at the Healing Yoga Foundation-San Francisco.
 

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Ian Kleiman - Registrar
1.800.295.9296
1.616.784.5720
fax: 1.206.339.6874
 E-mail: 'info@alextech-sweetbriar.com'

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