Summer 2023: Immersive Weekend Masterclasses
I am planning two immersive 3-day weekends at my home in Hampshire (accommodation provided). Travel from London is by train to Reading or Basingstoke.
The first one will be 28-30 July and the second one 8-10 September.
As well as traditional AT work, we will cook and eat together, discuss the therapeutic, educational and evolutionary ideas of F M Alexander. Drawing on my work with many first-generation teachers we will explore ways of integrating stopping and directing into all aspects of our lives.
Attendance will be limited to seven people; teachers, students and pupils, by invitation.
Cost for each weekend, including food, accommodation and over 17 hours of tuition is £400 (concessions available).
If you would like to apply or to get further information, contact me by email.
The Schedule
| Time | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 |
| 08:00-09:00 | Check-in | Breakfast | Breakfast |
| 09:30-11:00 | Check-in | Session 4 | Session 8 |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee |
| 11:30-13:00 | Session 1 | Session 5 | Session 9 |
| 13:00-15:00 | Lunch & break | Lunch & break | Lunch & break |
| 15:00-17:00 | Session 2 | Session 6 | Session 10 |
| 17:00-17:30 | Tea | Tea | Tea |
| 17:30-19:30 | Session 3 | Session 7 | Departure |
| 20:00-21:00 | Dinner | Dinner | Departure |
The Programme will include:-
- Understanding opposition: the primary postural pulls.
- Connecting legs and back: becoming one piece.
- The “up” along the spine.
- Saying “no”, stopping and finding quiet.
- The whole-self touch: being behind your actions.
- Natural breathing: the difference between chest breathing, abdominal breathing and diaphragmatic breathing.
- Counter rotation – in walking, sport and playing a musical instrument.
- Going into movement: the head leads and the body follows.
- Staying present: be here now!
- Working with energy
- The giving and withholding of consent: letting do
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The workshop, through the permanent support of the teacher and by working with others , brought me a deeper understanding and embodiment of the AT principles.
I had discovered new understandings of the directions…”one thing away from the other” and I had a profound experience of “interfering” by exploring natural breathing.
Another new approach that I found very interesting , it was the fact that we bring something in our awareness and then we sent back in unconscious…I experienced this working on table with breathing..
At the end , helped by John , working “hands on”, I was able to feel the movement of somebody by receiving an impulse..in a state of not doing…brain to brain work..