Alexander Technique Institute

Suite 4 / 188 Pacific Highway, North Sydney, Australia 2060

Teacher Training

Alexander Lessons

Not Just Posture!
Traditional one to one Alexander lessons.

"The Alexander Technique teaches you how to bring more practical intelligence into what you are already doing; how to eliminate stereotyped responses; how to deal with habit and change. It leaves you free to choose your own goal but gives you better use of yourself while you work towards it."

Professor Frank Pierce Jones author of
Freedom to Change - the development and science of the Alexander Technique.

Diana Devitt-Dawson

Optimum Performance Ability & Creativity - (music / sport / in the office)
Learn How to Unlearn Harmful Habits of Use
Mind / Body Integration
Balance & Enhance Motor Skills
Freedom from Stress / Anxiety
Pain Relief (long-term) Through Learning (see News Flash! The British Medical Journal)

F.M. Alexander

Re-Educating the Kinaesthetic Sense - Heightening Sensory Awareness

Traditionally, Alexander lessons are taught one to one. F.M. Alexander recognised that each person is unique and therefore have different habit patterns, aches and pains and learning needs. In order to address this and obtain full benefit from Alexander lessons, a course of individual lessons is necessary. Lessons teach you how to self-work by applying the Alexander principle in daily life actions and interactions. Individual lessons make way for fundamental, on-going change and improvement in your general manner of use and functioning.

A New Experience - Learning to Stop and Direct Your Use

During individual lessons the Alexander teacher uses gentle hands-on guidance to demonstrate the importance of a balanced head, neck and back relationship and teaches how you can ensure this balance in daily life.  You will experience a free neck, your head balancing UP on your neck (not forward leaning or leaning back and down on your neck), while your back lengthens and widens (free of unnecessary tensions).  This new experience, heightens sensory awareness and is often very pleasant although it may feel 'odd' being...'out of your habit.'

The liberating experience of Alexander lessons involves learning how to stop (conditioned harmful habits of use) and be able to direct yourself into balance.  Alexander called this inhibition and direction through conscious awareness.  For example, you will learn to meet any stimulus be it a chair, a computer, a difficult boss or an unusual situation, picking up baby or preparing for a performance (singer/ insturamantalist / artist / sport enthusiast), and be able to inhibit/stop your harmful manner of use and direct your head, neck (flight/fright) back relationship to allow balance, fine co-ordination and deep natural breathing throughout the whole organism.

To be free from harmful habits of use and reaction allows for new found creativity and choice in how best to use yourself in any situation.  For many people this is an empowering experience that brings confidence (as one's back becomes stronger), freedom, along with health and well-being physically, mentally and emotionally.

After an initial Consultation and lesson combined, the teacher will advise how many lessons you might require in order learn how to self-work.  The number of lessons vary from person to person however, a course of lessons usually involves between 15 and 30 for adults.  Children and young adults usually require fewer lessons.  Lessons should be as close to one another as possible in order to allow for the change in your sensory (kinaesthetic) sense which also assist understanding.

Lessons at the Alexander Technique Institute do not incorporate other disciplines or programs such as yoga, NLP or 'accelerated' learning thereby allowing the original integrity of the teachings to be fully experienced and understood.  Nor do lessons involve exercise, stretching or manipulation.

The Alexander teachers who are members of the professional body AUSTAT (the Australian Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique) have completed the three year, 1600 hour continuous training at an accredited teacher training school where the teacher/student ratio is 1:5.  AUSTAT is a member of the International Affiliated Societies Group that include, AmSAT (USA), CANSTAT (Canada), STAT (London) See, www.stat.org.uk and other European Societies.

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