Our Team
Jonathan Sheratte
I discovered the Alexander Technique in 1986 during a demanding postgraduate course at the Art College in London. The first weeks of Alexander lessons set in motion a creative flow and productivity that was both inexplicable and indescribable.
After 10 years of intensive private instruction, I began teacher training and qualified with Dan Armon in 1999.
In 2002 I founded ArTwork, Studio for Alexander Technique and Individual Creative Development in Berlin, with the aim of helping other artists to coordinate meaningfully in their artistic work and to enhance their creative performance. Many singers, actors, directors, musicians, conductors, educators and visual artists from various countries have gone through my practice, most of them re-emerging after being deeply psychologically and physically challenged and sometimes ruined by the stressful demands of a creative life in the art world.
From 2002 I was Dan Armon’s assistant at the School of Alexander Techik Berlin until I took over the school after his retirement in 2022.
35 years after my first lesson, I am now training others to teach. As a teacher training leader, I am happy to explain it and take on the inspiring challenge of finding ways to describe it. But the secret of creativity remains.
Beate von Hahn
I came to the Alexander Technique through my singing studies at the University of Music in Munich and this discovery was a revelation for me. Many of my questions about artistic expression and singing itself found an answer there. I finally got a feeling of what it means to stay with myself, to be in the flow, to use my body as a resonance chamber.
I always knew that somewhere there had to be an effortlessness and a pure expressiveness, what singers call an event, where you no longer know whether you are singing yourself or something is resonating through you.
I try to come as close as possible to this in my lessons as a voice and Alexander Technique teacher.
Dan Armon
Dan Armon was born in Jerusalem in 1948 and has been a teacher of the Alexander Technique since 1978. In 1998, he founded the “School for F.M. Alexander Technique” in Berlin, which later became the Alexander Technique Center Berlin. Over two decades, he has shaped the training of numerous teachers with an approach that combines meditative depth, artistic thinking and fine body awareness. As a poet and teacher, he combines language, stillness and movement in a special way.
Even though he now lives in Tel Aviv and no longer actively teaches at the center, his work remains tangible in the orientation of the house. He continues to support the team as a mentor and source of inspiration.
Guest Teachers
We are regularly supported by guest teachers who bring valuable impulses and broaden our perspective.
Rita Roehr
I began to deal with the unity of body and mind on a fundamental level through Aikido which I’ve been practicing since 1992. When are you whole and when are you not? And why? And what leads to separation?
On the path of exploration, I finally came to the Alexander Technique via Reiki, meditation and kinesiology. I trained with Dan Armon from 2004 to 2007 and have been working in my own practice ever since.
This work provides me with the means to achieve a conscious unity of body and mind; for me it is a key to creativity, personal development and communication.
Carmen Dalfogo
I got to know the Alexander Technique in 1991 while studying acting at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. It was part of my training and has, since then, continued to enrich and support me in my acting work to this day.
The Alexander Technique has opened up spaces for my personal development, which I no longer want to do without, and led me to the desire to pass it on.
In 2017, I began my teacher training at Dan Armon’s school in Berlin, which I completed in February 2021. Since then, I have been teaching in my workspace in Kreuzberg and am a regular guest teacher at the Alexander Technique Centre Berlin.
