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Workshop for Beginners  ~ £25 Minimum
Stoke Newington N16 UK                                 18 September


Fees from this Workshop will be donated to UNICEF & added to by Gift Aid:
UNICEF Pakistan Flood Children's Emergency Appeal
3.5 Million children are at risk from diseases after the severe floods and millions more are homeless.

Find out about the Alexander Technique and know that your Workshop fee will go towards helping UNICEF's work with these vulnerable children

Small Group - so it is essential to book in advance.

Because the group is small, you will be able to have some 1:1 hands-on work with Hilary, plus Emily Jeffers and Tim Giles, two senior teacher trainees at LCATT.

Participants will be eligible for a 1:1 Follow-up Lesson at just £20.

Short Course ~ 3 extra sessions ~ £60

If enough people are interested, this workshop could form the first session of a 4 Week Introductory Alexander Technique Course. This short course offers you a chance to begin learning the Technique with an experienced teacher in a small friendly group, at a reduced cost.

This fee is not part of the fund-raising.

Buy Both Workshop and Course Together ~ £75
Save £10 - but £25 will still be donated to UNICEF
Course Dates: (UNICEF Workshop 18 Sept ) plus 26 September, 2, 9 October

Further Info and Application Form details may be found here.

Holiday Dates

Please note I will not be teaching the Alexander Technique in Stoke Newington from

Monday 30th August - Tuesday 14th September

If you would like to enquire about individual Alexander Technique lessons with me, please contact me here and I will get back to you as soon as I am able to do so.              

STAT Conference ~ Brighton University 9 - 11 July 2010

I shall be going to this year's STAT Conference and AGM in Brighton, so please note that I will be unavailable to teach in Stoke Newington at this time.

As well as the AGM, there will be a number of interesting Workshops to attend. I also look forward to hearing the Annual Lecture, which will be given by Vivien Mackie, Alexander Teacher and author of 'Just Play Naturally: An Account of her studies with Pablo Casals'  in which she links Casals' cello teaching with the Principles of the Alexander Technique.

The Annual F M  Alexander Memorial Lecture on Saturday 10th July is open to anyone interested in the Alexander Technique.

Hilary King is on the CNHC Register. 

The Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council, CNHC has been set up with the help of the Prince's Foundation, to develop a structure of self-regulation for professional disciplines such as the Alexander Technique.

CNHC will work with the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique, STAT, to maintain and monitor high standards of Alexander Technique teaching and of professional Codes of Conduct. The CNHC is developing and expanding the number of disciplines that are eligible to join the register.

Further information:

http://www.cnhc.org.uk/pages/index.cfm?page_id=3

If you are already having Alexander Technique lessons, you might like to join AT Friends and go to some of their talks and Workshops, which take place at various venues around the country. These talks are an excellent way for you to extend your understanding of AT work and to meet other people who have some experience of the Alexander Technique.

Joining costs very little and the talks cost even less.

The next talk for London AT Friends is:

Thinking in Activity - How Space Shapes Attention ~ by Glenna Batson

Date: Tuesday 20 April

Time: 6.30 - 8.30

Fee:   £5 (£3 Concession)

For further info visit:

AT Friends 

Switch Off to show you care about Climate Change
27 March 8.30pm

Challenge your habits and turn off all electrics that are not essential for one hour. No lights, no TV, no music, no computer.... Have fun and create a different sort of evening for yourself, along with hundreds of people around the world that are joining this WWF campaign. Draw attention to the issues involved with adapting to climate change and think about what life may be like without our familiar appliances available to us if there are power shortages in the future.

So why am I mentioning this here on my Alexander Technique Blog?

I aim to run my Alexander Technique teaching practise in an environmentally aware way and work towards being as energy efficient as I can, so this falls naturally into my field of awareness.

Also, in Alexander lessons, we are always learning how to let go of habits that don't serve us and in many ways we all need to do exactly this - let go of many of our habits - in order to reduce our carbon footprints and energy consumption. How often do we leave the tap running, the lights on, or the the TV constantly on, just by habit, even though we are not even using them? What a waste of these valuable resources!

We can inhibit, stop these habits and make simple but important changes in our lives that will help conserve  our fragile environment.

As the WWF says - Be Bright, Turn Off the Light!

Further info about WWF Earth Hour:

http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/about_earth_hour/

RSI Conference 2010

RSI Action - The Repetitive Strain Injury Charity will be holding its Annual Conference in the Friends' Meeting House on Euston Road on 20 March.

The Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique, STAT, will have a stall at the conference. Mini-sessions will be available, so that people can begin to get a sense of how the Alexander Technique can help them change the way they 'Use' themselves so that they can begin to reduce and control RSI.

I shall be there on the STAT stall in the afternoon, after the end of my morning's Introductory Alexander Technique Workshop in aid of the UNICEF Haiti Earthquake Appeal as below.

If you would like to read more about the application of the Technique in relation to RSI, there is an article on my Website here.

Date:    20 March

Venue: Large Friends Meeting House, 173 Euston Road, NW1

Time:   9.15am  - 4.45 pm
 
 

Alexander Technique Workshop 20 March

I am pleased to say the fees and donations from this Workshop totalled  £150, all of which was donated  to the UNICEF Haiti Earthquake Children's Emergency Appeal

The workshop fees were added to by Gift Aid.

Haiti was decimated by the recent earthquake and it is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, so every pound donated for the Workshop, went towards UNICEF's ongoing recovery programme in Haiti.

Saturday 20th March ~10.00am - 12.30pm

A Half Price follow-up lesson was available to participants

Introductory Alexander Technique Course starts Monday 11 January - 1.0pm - 2.30pm.

Please note that the upcoming Introductory Alexander Technique Course will now be running for 4 sessions on Monday lunchtimes, rather than 5.

The fee for the course is now £65.

This course is for a small group of beginners. Please contact Hilary to see if it is still possible to book a place on the course. You may also phone her re the course or to book an individual lesson.
 
Tel: 020 7254 9206

New Research Paper

A new paper has been published in the OUP Family Practice (23 December 2009) which reports the findings of research into patients' views and attitudes towards learning the Alexander Technique, as part of the ATEAM Trial into treatments for chronic back pain.

This research looked at the psychological aspects underlying the ATEAM Trial and the outcomes showed that patients found the Alexander Technique was 'effective' and 'made sense' as it could be used during everyday activities, it had a 'convincing rationale' and that teachers provided good support and personal advice. The Alexander Technique was generally seen to be more acceptable to patients than the exercise regime which was prescribed by the doctors.The Technique was also seen as improving the patients' quality of life, which is great!

As one of the teachers selected to teach on the ATEAM Research Trial, I welcome this publication and the findings it reports, which tally with my experience of teaching the Technique to pupils from a wide range of backgrounds who predominantly find the Technique effective, not just for back pain but for helping and preventing the development of many conditions.

Alexander Technique Courses and Classes

If you would like to find out more about the Alexander Technique, you might like to join my upcoming
Introductory Alexander Technique Course, or you might prefer to dive straight in and try some individual lessons which are available on an ongoing basis.