Building Confidence and Joy in Teaching
This will be an interactive, hands-on workshop where participants will engage with limiting ideas or beliefs about their teaching abilities in order to diminish the power of those ideas or beliefs and build confidence in their skills as an Alexander Technique teacher. We will use the knowledge of activities we know we do well, as […]
Engaging and Resetting Spirals with Hands-on Work
Raymond Dart (1893-1988), a palaeoanthropologist and prominent player in the development of modern anthropology articulated what he called the human Double Spiral musculature. In Alexander Technique hands-on teaching, there is an opportunity to tune into and follow various spiralling pathways. With a collaboratively created developmental movement pattern recognition system, the Framework for Integration (FFI), AT […]
Singing into Being
A moment in the day to connect to grounding through vocalisation and integrative movement. If you are interested in exploring Alexander Technique in relation to singing and listening, please join us. Rosalie and Charlotte‘s workshops are a place to explore, celebrate and connect with your body and voice in community. Using the AT process, we […]
Freedom and Flow for musicians
Flow is the most desired wish for all musicians: the freedom to express what they imagine and feel without being afraid, limited, or blocked. Unfortunately, almost all musicians practise their instruments in unhelpful ways, and not just on a level of poise, breathing and coordination. Most musicians artificially separate music from technique, which is one […]
How All-Inclusive Awareness (the Focus of ‘And-And-And’) can help us make ‘Win-Win-Win’ Long Term Choices
This practical workshop will explore all-inclusive awareness – a key element of conscious inhibition. Through practical explorations, we will: – Investigate the full spectrum of attention levels, from ‘Sleeping’ (level 0) to All-inclusive awareness (level 5) to Zoomed-in (level 10) and the levels in between.– Discover the various possibilities of focus levels and discover which […]
Entering the Creative Space
When stimuli begin to impact, there is a micro-window of opportunity to stay mentally fluid and allow options to appear. This happens very quickly – almost in a different time-scale. It is a high-energy state in which the wonderful possibility of the new appears, with all its freshness and, at times in the face of […]
Legs are Undervalued
INTRODUCTION Legs are often poorly treated; they are crossed, wrapped around chair legs and even sat on. Often forgotten because they are remote, under a table or desk and appear to be irrelevant. The reflex bending and walking patterns are frequently disturbed in modern life. Legs are needed, as an integral part of our whole […]
Alexander’s early procedures and the Delsarte system – were they linked?
We know that early on, Alexander taught the Delsarte System of Gestural Training. I will present evidence that this work probably formed the basis of his early procedures. What was he teaching? In this workshop we will explore the early procedures he used, and explore how they relate to Delsartean methods. We’ll explore the beginnings […]
Alexander’s early breathing work
The Chapter ‘Evolution of a technique’ in Use of the self describes FM’s voice problems and the discovery of primary control, but in the first fourteen years of Alexander’s working life he was teaching breathing and natural elocution. How do we square these two facts? I am currently working on a second book on how the […]
Continuous Learning Module in Dublin
Anthony describes his London School as a “Trauma Informed and Emotionally Literate Alexander Training” In the Continuous Learning Module Anthony will explore some of his favourite themes: Does the idea of Psychophysical Unity explain how the impact of overwhelming distress, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE), and Trauma is revealed in the body? And can a trauma-informed […]