Penelope Easten

Goldie remodelled Penelope’s understanding of the technique, prompting a thirty-year journey to understand the differences and power of Miss Goldie’s work.  It took her to many other teachers, including Erika Whittaker, and to scientific and alternative avenues of exploration and understanding.  During two separate years, Penelope was unable to walk with chronic fatigue syndrome.

These years became quiet retreats, deepening her work.  With the illness gone completely, she has regained resilience, strength, and fitness, particularly through using the Initial Alexander technique with Jeando Masoero, and The Embodied Present Process with Philip Shepherd. She has taught ‘Miss Goldie’ workshops internationally since 2004, beginning at the Oxford congress in 2004, and was a continuous learning presenter at the 2022 Berlin Congress. During Covid 19 she ran Training to Teach Online, a detailed ten module course.

Her extensive book, The Alexander technique, The Twelve Fundamentals of Integrated Movement, was published in March 2021 and she now runs a Book Study Club course to help AT teachers and others explore it to the full. She is now writing a second book that unearths the real story of how the Alexander technique was developed.  After 19 years in the West of Ireland, she now lives and works in Edinburgh, teaching locally and online.  She enjoys walking her dog, running, yoga and fitness work, dancing, singing and reciting.