Inspiration in the Aegean 2023 and News

NYC

January 2023

Greetings all, 

I hope this missive finds you well and thriving in the new year. 

This fall and winter, I’ve been in NYC more consistently than in recent years. I’m enjoying teaching wonderful artists at the William Esper Acting Studio. It’s also a great pleasure to be working in person with the marvelous folks in my private teaching practice. 

Experiencing New York City coming back to life is inspiring and exhilarating. Art, diversity, energy - I’m loving all of it, even the hectic parts (well, usually). 

teaching studio view, NYC

Alexander Private Study, NYC
Beginning the new year with becoming more comfortable, well-integrated, and at ease in our first home, the body, is a bountiful, useful goal. The Alexander process provides a pleasurable, practical process for attaining this. To learn about embodied awareness via the principles of the Alexander Technique, please visit my website. 

Private lesson info: judithgrodowitz@gmail.com

 Aphrodite and Eros riding a swan

Inspiration in the Aegean Workshop - 

the final installment

June 25 - 30, 2023, Folegandros Island, Greece

The six-day group workshop integrates Greek mythology, embodied story, movement improvisation, language, and environmental forces into study of the Alexander Technique. It takes place on the brilliant Island of Folegandros, Greece. 

The first Inspiration in the Aegean workshops were from 1996 to 2003. After a long hiatus, I was elated to revive the workshop in 2017 and 2018. It was planned again for 2020, but sadly canceled by Covid. 

Glowing! 2018 workshop participants enjoying the island

This spot on Planet Earth has been a powerful  force in my life, by now for decades. 

It’s been enchanting to sense the island working her wonders on all who’ve made their way there for the workshops. This has served as a teacher for me. The place itself has compelled me to study, play and take fruitful chances with my work. 

It’s been a grateful collaboration with the stones water people village culture light sun heat stars sky air stories wind and more wind of magical Folegandros.

I look forward to sharing one last 2023 hurrah for this beloved project, with what I’m sure will be a fantastic group of people. If you’ve thought of attending or wish to return, now’s the time! 

Greece Video

Photo Gallery

Workshop Registration Information The workshop fills quickly, and class size is limited.

Let us know you’re interested.

Contact us (Judith and our truly fantastic registrar, Lillian Vargyas): aegeaninspiration@gmail.com

Here’s to world sanity, commitment to Earth and all her inhabitants, and to growing our collective humanity in 2023!

all best wishes,

Judith 

the Aegean, forever inspiring 

Spring, 2022

dear friends, 

I hope this finds you and yours well and thriving, despite these daunting roller-coaster times. I continue envisioning humans worldwide coming together to share and protect the welfare of our planet and the many versions of humans, plants, and creatures that make this place home. Imagination into action. 

Update: Inspiration in the Aegean Workshop: After sadly canceling the 2020 workshop due to Covid, I hoped that 2021 and then 2022 might be possible. With war and a still uncertain pandemic situation, 2022 is not yet the right time. Hopefully, mid-June, 2023 is the charm for the next workshop on the beautiful island of Folegandros, Greece. 

Inspiration in the Aegean is a six-day workshop integrating Greek myth, archetype, movement improvisation, language, and environment with study of the Alexander Technique. The workshop is open to all levels of experience. 

For information about the workshop, visit the Greece Workshop link in the menu above.

At home: It’s been a great pleasure to consistently work in person again with NYC private students. And also, to be teaching in person at the William Esper Acting Studio, with wonderful groups of acting students. 

I’ll be teaching in NYC on a weekly basis throughout the spring. If you’re interested in private lessons in NYC, or on the East End of Long Island -- please be in touch.  Information about Alexander Technique is found in the menu above under Areas of Focus.

On Shelter Island, we’ve jumped into vigorous, early spring gardening. It’s an inspiration spending time and effort with the plant world, laboring in service of blooms and bees to come. 

Please stay in touch.

It’s always good to hear from you.

Happy Springtime. May peace prevail. 

all my best,

Judith