Forthcoming Workshops & Residentials

In the forthcoming workshops and residentials we will work directly with themes found in my blog posts — particularly the clarity of first-generation teaching, inhibition as a living principle, and the question of how this work stands in the 21st century.

We will return to fundamentals: the head–neck–back relationship, stopping the wrong thing first, and the small but decisive interval in which organisation — in mind and body — either settles into habit or remains fluid. The work will be practical. Ideas will be tested in activity.

We will also look carefully at language. Not to discard what has been handed down, but to ask whether nineteenth-century terminology is always the most exact way of describing what we now understand more fully. The principles themselves are not in question. The precision of their articulation may be.

The value of the work lies in its application — in speaking, teaching, performing, deciding, relating. Lest we forget, “The Alexander Technique is a means to an end, not an end in itself.”

These days and weekends are for those who wish to work seriously and without embellishment — refining perception and strengthening the capacity to remain fluid in mind and body, and to meet life with adaptability rather than habit.

One-day workshops

• Saturday 11 April, 11am to 5.30pm
• Saturday 9 May, 11am to 5.30 pm
• Saturday 6 June, 11am to 5.30pm

Cost: £120 per day; lunch and snacks included

Weekend Residential Courses

• 31 July to 1 August
• 11 to 13 September

Cost: £420 per weekend; food and accommodation included

To enquire about availability, contact me by email.