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The Alexander Technique Institute Teacher Training School includes voice work within the course curriculum.  As a psychophysical re-education in the use of the self, the Alexander Technique is an invaluable method for all those interested in healthy vocal function and for the prevention and management of performance anxiety.

Students have the opportunity to explore their own vocal use while speaking in public, preparing introductory talks, singing, reading aloud and reciting.  Students receive instruction on the production of sound, articulation, tonicity, rhythm, pausation and pacing.  Deep natural breathing, without exercise, is discussed and demonstrated.  As in Alexander's day, voice work advances to Shakespearean recitation.  Constructive feedback from an Alexander Technique perspective is discussed and explored.  Students also study anatomy and physiology of the vocal and respiratory mechanisms.

"I don't think too much importance can be placed on the application of the work to speaking.  I do not mean specific speech training or elocution, as such, but the connecting of the conscious directions especially the preventive ones with the ordinary give-and-take conversation of everyday life...(Alexander) often combined working on us with giving us the Shakespeare lines to speak...During one particular lesson, after he had worked on me a minute or two he placed a hand on top of my head and then told me to speak the lines, still maintaining my directions.  I realised for the first time the meaning of 'thinking in activity'.  The activity of speaking was part of the whole use of myself, and the experience of my voice expressing the meaning of the words, without any decision on my part 'to speak well' or to 'put expression into it' is one of my most valued recollections."
Irene Tasker
Montessori Teacher/ Alexander Teacher

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