Alexander Technique Philadelphia

Ariel Weiss Holyst brings over 35 years of movement training to her teaching practice. She began her study of the Alexander Technique in 1978 and was certified by The Alexander Foundation in 1988, where she has also served as a teaching assistant. In addition to her training with Bruce and Martha Fertman, she has studied with Marjorie Barstow, Thommy Thompson, Bill Connable, and Ideokinesis with Irene Dowd, among others. In 2002 she completed Level I training with the Upledger Institute in CranioSacral Therapy, and is inspired by her ongoing exploration of how the CranioSacral work can inform and be integrated with Alexander’s discoveries as a tool for helping her students.

A modern dancer and choreographer, she received her Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Wesleyan University with a concentration in Movement and Dance. Ariel has studied a wide variety of movement techniques including ballet, contact improvisation, T'ai Chi, Laban Movement Analysis, and Bartenieff Fundamentals. Active as a choreographer and performer, she is particularly attuned to performance issues and the analysis of complex movement sequences.

Ariel enjoys teaching people of all ages and backgrounds using a lighthearted, practical approach to the work. She has taught Alexander Technique workshops for dancers at the American College Dance Festival Association and Temple University, actors at Allentown College and the Walnut Street Theatre, corporate employees at Cigna, opera singers at the Curtis Institute of Music and Academy of Vocal Arts, and for patients at Rhodes Chiropractic and Margolis & Shryer's Pain Group.

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