Alexander Technique Philadelphia

Ariel Weiss brings over 40 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. In addition to her training with Bruce and Martha Fertman, she has studied extensively 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.

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 been a faculty member in the Voice and Opera program at the Curtis Institute of Music since 1999 and joined the faculty in the School of Theater Arts at the University of the Arts in 2008. She has been a guest teacher for both the Philadelphia and Toronto Alexander Alliance teacher training programs. Ariel has taught numerous Alexander Technique workshops including those for musicians at Lehigh University, Academy of Vocal Arts and Settlement Music School, 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, and for patients at Rhodes Chiropractic and Margolis & Shryer's Pain Group.

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