The Technique assists in bringing to awareness unhelpful habits of movement and thought which may be interfering with natural support mechanisms. With time and practice, it leads to greater freedom and efficiency in movement and stillness. The teacher uses subtle, hands-on guidance to help you recognise and undo tensions and imbalances, so that you can independently apply the principles in everyday life.
While everyone can benefit, the Technique can help with back, neck, and joint problems, breathing, postural distortion and imbalances, headaches, and fatigue. It can also assist with skills enhancement in activities such as yoga, music, acting, public speaking, dance, sports, singing and riding.
The workshop will include:
* The historical background and fundamental principles
* Discussion of common problems and ways to approach them from an AT point of view
* A practical exploration of everyday movement
* For those that wish, individual hands-on guidance
* A lying down practice that you can take away and apply
* F.M. Alexander’s approach to breathing
* The chance to ask questions as they arise
What to bring:
* comfortable clothing (trousers or leggings), a few books (3 or 4) for head support. Yoga mats will be provided.
More about Ron:
Ron is one of the few remaining ‘second-generation’ Alexander teachers who were trained by pupils of F.M. Alexander himself. He came to the Technique because of problems with tension in violin playing. The improvements enabled him to become a member of the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, and subsequently, the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Ron trained to be an Alexander teacher for three years full-time with Walter Carrington, who had continued Alexander’s training course after his death. Ron has taught AT for 43 years, and has trained teachers for 33 years. He is a fully accredited member of the Society of Teachers of The Alexander Technique (STAT).
“ Ron Colyer is an exceptional Alexander Technique teacher who brings great skill, sensitivity and kindness to his work. Ron’s lessons have helped me considerably, and afterwards I feel lighter, with a deeper sense of awareness of myself and how I move and relate to life. Ron is a gifted teacher and I have found his lessons helpful when I was experiencing back pain, recovering from injury, and after knee surgery. The Alexander Technique is subtle and non-invasive, and can be adapted to individual needs, as happened at those times when I could hardly move. As a practitioner and teacher of Yoga I have found that the Alexander Technique has helped me to deepen my experience of Yoga and incorporate it into my classes. Ron has given a number of excellent workshops to Yoga teachers in the Traditional Yoga Association, and our teachers have found them very helpful. The Technique provides a safe way of practicing Yoga that works with the body’s own natural intelligence and helps create a sense of spaciousness within.”
Uddhava
