The director of Kyoto's Alexander Technique Center is Lucas Lorenzi, who qualified as an Alexander teacher 25 years ago. Certified by the London based Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique STAT in 1985 he became an active teaching member of the japanese branch JSTAT. The founder of the Alexander Teaching Corporation JATC is an experienced and skilled senior teacher and trainer who trained in the tradition established by F.M. Alexander. Coming from a musical family he worked in his first profession as a musician (flutist) in various music schools in Europe. To be able to teach Mr. Alexander's discoveries in connection with the essential traditional hands on skill and other very important foundation skills that underpin the work of an Alexander teacher Lucas completed an approved three year full- time teacher training course in the Basel School for Teachers of the Alexander Technique. There he assisted later for many years the education of new teachers and taught regularly under the directions of his trainer Yehuda Kuperman & Uri Eshet and instructors and trainers like Hermelin, Magidov, Tadmor, Nelken - all of whom trained in London with master teacher Patrick Macdonald who studied with F.M.Alexander himself and took over Alexander's practice at Ashley Place when he died. In those times he was also privileged to experience and to learn directly from the famous first generation teachers Marjorie Barstow, Walter Carrington and Patrick Macdonald. Lucas Lorenzi had significant involvement with schools and their trainings in Freiburg, Basel and Cologne and has been instructor for the Alexander Technique at the State Conservartory of Music Trossingen and the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Intensively he taught the Technique in music performance classes to a huge variety of orchestra players, chamber musicians, soloists and professors like Edith Picht - Axenfeld - piano, cembalo, harpsichord, organ, Alexandre Stein - cello, Hans Heinz Schneeberger - violin, Ruth Wentorf - flute, Yaron Windmueller - vocal, Klaus Huber - accordion, Tomas Girard - sax, Tinnes - trumpet, Trautman - guitar, Kiechling - drums, vibraphone, percussion and is now teaching also actors, dancers, voice trainers, speech educators, mimes, tv and radio presenters, public speakers, singers, conductors and other wind - brass (bassoon, clarinet, oboe, horn, trombone, tuba) and string (harp, viola, double bass) instrumentalists all over Japan. His class has gained high reputation not only among musicians and performing artists. Also breath and music therapists, buddhist practitioners, eurythmy teachers, athletes, people who do business in the sports and fitness industry, swimmers, health practitioners, martial artists, school and university teachers, people who practice yoga, Reiki, Rolfing, healing techniques, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Shiatsu, Body Mapping - andover educators believe in bodymapping, Feldenkrais, meditation, Zen - Zazen and also office workers who sit with headaches, back - knee - feet - neck - pain, breathing difficulties, blood pressure and shoulder tension in front of a computer - they all learn in individual Alexander lessons with him, how to apply the necessary skill of inhibition and direction which creates real choice. Through verbal instructions and direct contact of the teachers hands, that are the agency of his own application of the process, the pupils discover and learn their own tools to live with the Alexander principles and to find the body's and mind's natural ways of moving and supporting itself. Invited internationally known Alexander teachers (Pinkas, Hobbs, Kuperman etc.) have visited the Centre. Instructors of the Japan Alexander Teaching Corporation JATC always refine their teaching skill. They receive post-graduate training (intensive skills-based hands on instruction; teaching: - Conscious Inhibition, Non-Doing, giving Direction) and master classes and point out their own work on a regular base in the ATC Kyoto. The work in the Alexander Technique Centre Kyoto encompasses everything from everyday activities to professional performance coaching to Alexander Technique teacher training and continuing education. For further infomation please feel free to contact us: info@alexandertechnique.ne.jp