Modernizing AT for Peak Performance and Skilled Activity
This workshop aims to capture the attention of contemporary audiences by addressing a wider variety of physical activities performed at the highest levels. For the Alexander Technique (AT) to remain relevant, it must evolve beyond traditional lesson formats and embrace modern applications more readily. Participants will explore practical and innovative approaches to analyze movement, connecting […]
Alexander Technique and an Approach to Dystonia: Untangling the Yarn in the Brain
Dystonia is a neurological condition that affects people’s ability to control certain movements and manifests in spasms and twisting motions that happen repeatedly, sometimes with severe pain. The person’s ability to perform basic tasks can be severely impaired and affects their personal and professional life. Synthetically, those difficulties can be said to derive, at least […]
To Teach is to Inspire and Support: The Living Process of becoming a Teacher and Teaching Teachers of the Alexander Technique.
In this workshop Nadia will introduce and explore some vital themes involved in becoming and being an Alexander Technique teacher. Applying a brief introduction to the Psycho-Physical Supporting Practice, the participants will work towards a clearer sense of self and purpose while teaching. The conscious use of the Supporting Practice for hands on work, for […]
The Psycho-Physical Supporting Practice Today
In this workshop we shall introduce the procedures of the Psycho-Physical Supporting Practice as a way of helping all practitioners of the Alexander Technique, both experienced and beginners, to work on themselves for a deeper and long lasting embodiment of our timeless processes of Inhibition and Direction. There will be self practice, hands on practice […]
Co-Creating Release: Clean Language as a powerful tool to help clients release tension
In this workshop you can discover how words can guide your clients to find release from their tension. Some tension is connected to our clients on a deeper level, and may require a different approach from what the Alexander Technique has to offer. Trauma might be a reason, there might also be other reasons. The […]
Manner of Reaction As Embodied Mind 2 – Abstract
In this second workshop, we will focus on the final two stages of working with Stanley Greenspan’s model of mind, where emotional ideas can be created and elaborated using constructive conscious control in an age-appropriate way across the lifespan. The workshop will draw on ideas from Alexander’s writings, particularly CCCI, as well as participants’ own […]
Manner of Reaction As Embodied Mind 1
In this first workshop of two, we will use Alexander’s guiding orders for standing in MSI to explore the first four stages of Stanley Greenspan’s model of mind. Greenspan collaborated with Stephen Porges at various times and his model provides a way to understand the association between manner of use and manner of reaction described […]
The door exercise – a forgotten but very helpful procedure
In 1910 FM Alexander published a supplement to his 1908 ‘Re-education of the Kinaesthetic Systems’ which describes ‘hands on the back of the chair,’ an early form of what would be named ‘monkey’ and the ‘door exercise.’ Unfortunately, the ‘door exercise’ is rarely used although it is a very helpful procedure. I have been working […]
‘We are just upright worms’ revisited
The idea made me smile. Worms have segmented body parts that help it to move. ‘These segments either contract or relax independently to cause the body to lengthen in one area or contract in other areas. Segmentation helps the worm to be flexible and strong in its movement. If each segment moved together without being […]
Standing Upright in an Alexander Context – Developmental Erasure and Reconnection
Alexander Technique’s postural signifiers have become so culturally ubiquitous that standing postures (or standing correctly) are often regarded as exemplary or neutral/normal. Musculoskeletal and biomechanical postural perspectives frequently omit the evolutionary process that brought humans to standing. In medical models, body positions are depicted mechanically, as if bodies were neutral entities not subject to habit. […]