Tuning for Peak Performance

Tuning for Peak Performance with Bob Britton

In this workshop we will be exploring how the Alexander Technique enables optimal organization for movement and performance. There are many ways to define the Technique, but one very important one is as a means whereby to enable the most efficient and effective movement possible. While we are exploring this organization we will experience the coordination of a long spine with our suspension system, breath, balance, and environment and tool handling. We will also notice how Alexander’s directions describe this integration. In addition we will experience how the same organization for peak performance is close to the optimal quality of hands-on teacher communication.

Complimentary tickets are available to any teachers, trainees, and students who identify as Black, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, or Persons of Color. Our community is enhanced by an abundance of diversity and diminished without it. Email us at jleibowitzscholarship@amsatonline.org for your VIP code.

About Bob

Robert Britton (Bob) trained as an Alexander Technique teacher with Frank Ottiwell and Giora Pinkas, and graduated in 1978. In addition to his private practice he taught the Alexander Technique to musicians at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for 39 years. He has helped train Alexander Technique teachers since 1988 in San Francisco, Berkeley, Berlin, and Hamburg. He served as chairman of the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT) from 1997 to 1999, and he was a faculty member of the Bay Area Summer Opera Training Institute (BASOTI) for many years. He has contributed to the well-being of the international Alexander Technique Affiliated Societies, and the Annual Members Meeting of the Affiliated Societies. He was a co-director of the International Congress of the Alexander Technique in Lugano Switzerland in 2011 and Berlin in 2022. He also serves on the International Congress Board. He was chairman of the “Complete Musicians Department” of the San Francisco Conservatory and in 2012 Bob was awarded the George S. Sarlo Award which is given for excellence in teaching in Northern California universities and colleges.

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