Malibu Alexander Technique Retreat 2012

PACIFIC OCEAN SERRA RETREAT CENTER MALIBU

by Ellen Bierhorst ~ Can I really communicate the significance? Halfway through my fourth year as an Alexander Technique teacher, my fortieth year as a psychologist, I took a wild, extravagant notion to attend the Alexander Technique Workshops International six-day workshop in Malibu with Michael Frederick, Giora Pinkas, Lynn Charleson Klein, Frances Marsden, Carol Prentis, and special guest Rome Roberts Earle.  I’d never given myself such a lavish treat.  I had no idea what I’d be getting into; had some vague ideas of a kind of six-day AGM.  Not at all! I had no understanding of what it could do for me to be with twenty-five-plus other teachers and students in an intimate retreat setting with six master teachers.  It was a more concentrated infusion of Inhibition and Direction than even my training course experience.  The setting was a quiet and exceedingly beautiful sanctuary, the Serra (Franciscan) Retreat Center overlooking the blue Pacific.  Comfortable bedrooms, good food; congenial, supportive Alexander people all around.  The spirit of the group was what … Continue reading

A Performer’s Journey with The Alexander Technique

by Lindsey Goodman ~  Five mornings prior to making my professional singing debut as soloist with orchestra this December (2012), I awoke with almost no voice.  The first near-panicked text message went to my vocal teacher, the second to my husband, and the third to my Alexander Technique instructor.  … Continue reading