Whispered Ah and the Warrior
Come and learn Tian Xiao, a very short martial art form, practised by The European School of T’ai Chi Chu’an UK. This was taught to all the trainees at the City Alexander Technique School and incorporated the Whispered Ah as a variation.
Finding Our Place in Time: Experiments in the Art of Anticipation
You are living in the past. What you experience as the present is a result of several milliseconds to seconds of integrating sensory information. You are also living in the future. Your perceptions are shaped by your beliefs about what might be coming next. As the American psychologist, George Kelly said, we are all “living […]
Psychophysicality – or is it just about the hands?
Starting with the act of putting the hands on another person the workshop will explore the both the physical and psychological aspects of the process. Peter Ribeaux has taught the Technique for over 50 years. He was co-director for thirty three years of an Alexander training course in London and remains a STAT and APTA […]
Learning While You Teach, Teaching While You Learn…
We will look at the value of bringing the work to the person as well as bringing the person to the work. Bringing the person to the work does certainly have obvious benefits; it provides the student with an integrated experience not otherwise available to them given their commitment to their habitual ways of involving themselves […]
Pathways to Choice
Among numerous meritorious benefits, the Alexander principles help us deal with the conundrums posed by habit and change. By following FM Alexander’s path of inhibition, we can successfully make non-habitual choices; we can reduce reaction and reactivity. This makes it easier to choose a more appropriate and reasoned response. Yet do we actually have free […]
The Habit of Identity in ‘Use of Self’ and Personal Narrative
Can we imagine a ‘train of change,’ blowing its whistle as your signal to get on board? The train stops at every station, but only for a moment. If you tightly hold onto a fixed way of being, thinking, feeling, or perceiving, then as the train approaches one can refuse to get on board. You can watch […]
The Habit of Identity in ‘Use of Self’ and Personal Narrative
Can we imagine a ‘train of change’, blowing its whistle as your signal to get on board? The train stops at every station, but only for a moment. If you tightly hold onto a fixed way of being, thinking, feeling, or perceiving, then as the train approaches one can refuse to get on board. You can […]
Teaching the Teachers – your eyesight, brain and vision questions answered
The Continuous Learning sessions Teaching the Teachers – your eyesight, brain and vision questions answered by Peter Grunwald are cancelled as he is unable to make it to Dublin. Please deselect this event in your Events List and take the opportunity to select some other event to attend.
Whispered Ah and the Warrior
Come and learn Tian Xiao, a very short martial art form, practised by The European School of T’ai Chi Chu’an UK. This was taught to all the trainees at the City Alexander Technique School and incorporated the Whispered Ah as a variation.
“Look Ma, No Hands!” How touch-free teaching improves everything (including your hands-on!)
In this workshop, I’ll show you how starting to learn the skills & strategies needed to teach the Alexander Technique without hands-on will immediately benefit you by: ● Accelerating the improvement of your Use,● Sharpening your observation skills,● Improving the sensitivity and effectiveness of your hands-on work and . . .● Opening up new possibilities […]