The director of Kyoto's Alexander Technique Center is Lucas Lorenzi, who qualified as an Alexander teacher 27 years ago. Certified by the United Kingdom London based Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique STAT in 1985 he became authorized founder and an active teaching member of the japanese network JSTAT (Japan Solidarity of Teachers of the Alexander Technique). The initiator of the Alexander Teaching & Training Corporation JATTC 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 supervision of his trainer Yehuda Kuperman and instructors and trainers like Eshet, 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 continue his studies and to learn directly from the famous first generation teachers Peggy Williams (1916-2003), Marjorie Barstow (1899-1995), Walter Carrington (1915-2005) and Patrick Macdonald (1910-1991). Lucas Lorenzi had significant involvement with schools and their trainings in Freiburg, Basel and Cologne and has been employed instructor for the Alexander Technique at the State Conservatory 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 Thinking & Mapping - andover educators believe in bodymapping, Feldenkrais, meditation, Zen - Zazen and also office workers who sit with headaches, back - leg - 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 and training course directors (Giora Pinkas, Stanton H. Hobbs, Yehuda Kuperman & others) have visited the Centre. Committed teacher companions of the Japan Alexander Teaching and Training Corporation JATTC always widen their horizons and refine their teaching skills. 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 work on a regular base in ATC Kyoto. The Alexander Technique we offer encompasses everything from everyday activities to professional performance coaching to Alexander Technique teacher training and continuing challenges & education. If you wish further infomation don't hesitate to contact the Alexander Technique Centre (ATC) Kyoto/Japan: info@alexandertechnique.ne.jp