ITM Alexander Technique
What's on:
Weekend Workshop in Stockholm Nov 6-8
Participating in a weekend workshop is an outstanding way to dive into the ideas of F. M. Alexander
and experience a load of ”aha”-moments in a short space of time.
You get to meet many other participants, experience their ongoing development,
discuss the ideas and learn from everything you see.
Welcome to experience the power of reasoning applied to movement.
Dates:
Fri Nov 6th 18.30-21.00
Sat Nov 7th 10-18
Sun 8th 10-18
Venue: Salong Skeppar Karl, Baldersgatan 7B, Stockholm
Facebook event:
https://fb.me/e/aFGrp5pWe
Send and email to
tobias.bennsten@gmail.com
to participate!
What is the Alexander Technique?
The Alexander Technique is a reasoning based, thought-driven tool
to achieve freedom in movement and an elevated quality in all types of performance.
Whether you are a musician, an actor, an elite athlete, lecturer,
business leader or anything else,
you are ”using” yourself in everything you do.
If you want to change something, e.g. develop your singing, your stage presence, or your ability to deliver at the critical moment
you will need to think in new ways about how you ”use” yourself and your body in the movements you make.
By studying
thinking in relation to movement
you can develop a mental discipline that you can apply in all areas of your life.
How would it be to get more done with less effort?
Alexanderworkshops Tuesdays at 18.45-20.45
Welcome to workshop in ITM Alexander Technique every Tuesday at 18.45-20.45.
Venue: Upplandsgatan 83 i Stockholm, close to Odenplan.
Pricing policy:
First session:
100 SEK for students, 200 SEK for others
Henceforward:
300 SEK for students, 500 SEK for others
Payment by Swish to my company the same day as you have your session.
If you would prefer an invoice it can be arranged.
What to expect at a workshop
A workshop begins with an Introductory Lecture,
followed by experiential work where one student at a time has a ”lesson turn”.
The whole group follows each individual’s lesson
and together we discuss the questions and ideas that are investigated in the session.
An ITM teacher uses his or her hands when interacting with the student.
You can get a sense of what it looks like in the pictures above and below.
What I do with my hands is very non-invasive, and might be best described as a ”gentle touch”.
It has nothing to do with ”healing,” ”energies” or anything like that.
Instead, hands in teaching are used to demonstrate the ideas that are discussed
and everything is related to the thoughts and questions that the student brings into the lesson turn.
Using hands is one of many tools that an ITM teacher uses
to create interactions where the student is invited to reason through his or her ideas and beliefs concerning movement.
Official website for the Interactive Teaching Method (ITM)
There are many approaches to the work of Frederick Matthias Alexander.
Like in any field or discipline there are different schools of thought.
Diversity of opinion is a sign of a health and contributes to the collective development in the field.
If you want to learn more about what distinguishes the ITM specifically,
the approach in which I am certified,
you are welcome to visit the official webpage for the ITM:
Tobias Bennsten ITM Newsletter
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This is what Charlie, ITM student since february this year, has to say
”I experience the Alexander Technique
as a tremendously enriching and eye-opening journey.
In everything you do, in all your movements,
there is one constant: You yourself.
The Alexander Technique challenges my thinking in a practical way
regarding how I apply myself during every movement I make,
whether that is singing, writing or simply sitting on a chair.
This way of thinking supports me in using less unnecessary effort,
whilst still successfully completing my every action,
leading me to preserve more energy
which I can then use to achieve even more.”
