NEW: Four-Week Training Workshops
Thomas Lemens Offers a Series of Four-Week Workshops to Alexander Technique Trainees and Graduates with 3+ Years of Experience
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Each workshop is limited to 3 participants.
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Starting on a Saturday, each participant has a one-hour session with Thomas Lemens modeling a student's first lesson.
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Other participants observe the process. Afterwards the group engages in a short Q&A, followed by a brief break.
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Sunday's session is a follow-up, designed to evaluate responses to the first session and establish learning goals over the next four weeks.
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Each workshop group then determines a mutually agreeable schedule for the following four weeks, located in North Salem, New York and/or New Haven, CT
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The workshop cost is $500.00 per person.
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
NEW SERIES STARTING SOON IN NEW HAVEN, CT
With over 30 years of experience as a Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique, Thom Lemens is dedicated to providing relief from:
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Anxiety and stress issues
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Vocal or instrument-specific issues such as repetitive stress injuries
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General pain and discomfort
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Breathing and coordination disorders
Benefits often include:
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Improved coordination while playing or singing
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Correction of dystonic or painful patterns of movement
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Improved overall use of the body
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Correction of patterns that impact the tongue, larynx and respiration
Each group will be limited to three participants, ideally from similar instruments in each workshop set (i.e. woodwinds, vocalization, strings, piano/keyboards).
The 5-week workshop fee is $600.00 per participant.
Please contact me by text, phone or email with questions and to discuss enrollment. I look forward to meeting and working with you soon.
Four-Week Training Workshops
Thomas Lemens, Michael Ostrow and Laurie Kline offer a series of Four-Week Workshops to Alexander Technique Trainees and Graduates with 3+ years of experience.
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Each workshop will be limited to 3 participants.
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Starting on a Saturday, each participant has a one-hour session with Thomas modeling a student's first lesson.
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Other participants observe the process, and afterwards the group engages in a short Q&A, followed by a brief break.
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Sunday's session is a follow-up, to evaluate responses to the first session and establish learning goals over the next four weeks.
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Each workshop group outside determines a mutually agreeable schedule for the following four weeks in North Salem, New York.
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There is also the option of follow-up sessions held in Manhattan on four consecutive Thursdays, based on the enrollment of three participants with compatible schedules and interest.
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The workshop cost is $800.00 per person.
Michael Ostrow
Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique
Michael Ostrow has been teaching the Alexander Technique since 1990, and is certified by both AmSAT and STAT. He co-founded the New York Center for the Alexander Technique with Laurie Kline, and has been teaching the Alexander Technique since then. He worked extensively with many of the most experienced Alexander Technique teachers both during training and after graduating.
Mr. Ostrow assisted at the Institute for the Alexander Technique training class from 1995 to 2001, where he also taught anatomy and voice to the trainees. He was chair of the Training Approval Committee for five years, the committee responsible for evaluating and maintaining the standards for training classes in United States.
In the Alexander Technique he discovered a revolutionary yet very practical approach to freeing people from unconscious and harmful ways of reacting and moving so they can live a more poised and mindful life. It has remained his inspiration and central focus since then.
Mr. Ostrow studied with a number of voice teachers during his training and afterwards, including the renowned breathing and voice expert Carl Stough, who authorized him to teach his work. Over these years of experience, Mr. Ostrow developed a unique approach, enabling him to help clients with a variety of voice and breathing issues.
Before discovering the Alexander Technique, his interest in philosophy and "mind-body" disciplines led him to study Zen Buddhism for a number of years after getting a BA in philosophy. The Alexander Technique provided the essential “bridge between theory and practice.”
Mr. Ostrow also studied classical piano — albeit without the benefit of the Alexander Technique. By applying the Technique, he has discovered how to play with less tension and more awareness and sensitivity, enabling him to better understand and serve the needs of musicians.
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220 US dollars
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150 US dollars
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170 US dollars
ANNUAL GOALS
Year One is geared towards the cultivation of the trainees' use of the body. This foundation is built through the basic chair and table work, as well as basic procedures such as POMA (Position of Mechanical Advantage), lunging, and squatting. In addition to discussions of reading material and other areas of interest, anatomy will also be a focus of study.
In tandem with coursework, explorations of the impact of daily activities on bodies will be conducted, for example, the consequences of mobile phones and keyboard-based computing on the use of the body. This focus will provide opportunities to discuss and address how to produce correct outcomes through a better understanding of core Alexander principles. Other examples might be a musician's breathing issues in relation to playing the instrument, as well as the demands of holding the the instrument for extended periods of time.
Year Two continues the foundation work of the first year, with the addition of basic hands-on teaching with volunteer students. Tuesday anatomy and discussions continue as well.
Year Three is a time of major transition in that the trainee is no longer required to attend the anatomy/discussion sequence. Trainees will undertake the initial phase of working with new students directly, in sessions conducted under supervision.
As teaching experience is acquired, the trainee, in addition to their supervised sessions, will undertake giving initial sessions to volunteers while documenting the introductory two weeks of sessions on video. This will generally begin at the end of the later modules of the third year. Students will receive both written commentary and in-person review.