Weekly classes, workshops and long term training

Embarking on a conscious relationship with our breath can be a profound catalyst for physical wellness, emotional balance, and mental clarity. This workshop is a two-hour experiential journey designed to introduce participants to the science, art, and transformative power of breathing naturally. 

Workshop Objectives:

• Increase your’ awareness of your breathing patterns.
• Teach foundational breathing techniques for relaxation, focus, and vitality.
• Explore the science behind breath work and its effects on the body and mind.
• Guide participants through practical exercises for integrating mindful breathing into daily life.
• Create a safe, supportive space for exploration and personal growth.

Discover how the Alexander Technique can improve your golf game by enhancing posture, balance, and body awareness. In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to reduce tension, move more efficiently, and bring greater ease and precision to your swing. Perfect for golfers of all levels looking to play with less strain and more control.

How the Alexander Technique can help you reduce chronic pain, improve posture, and help you move with greater ease. This interactive workshop introduces practical tools for recognizing and changing harmful movement patterns, enhancing body awareness, and supporting long-term pain relief. Suitable for all levels and especially beneficial for those dealing with back, neck, or joint pain.

Beginner to intermediate climbers, or any climbers interested in movement efficiency, body awareness, or injury prevention.

Workshop Objectives:

• Understand the Core principles of the Alexander Technique.
• Learn how posture, movement efficiency, and tension management impact climbing.
• Apply Alexander technique concepts directly to climbing activities.
• Develop personalized strategies for ongoing improvement.

LONG TERM COURSE

Would you like to improve your quality of life, to feel better, feel a little happier,  to wake up with fewer aches and pains? Maybe resolve a perpetual migraine or headache?  Are you tired of having no energy? The Alexander technique is a set of skills that help to manage pain, relieve stress and enhance performance in a sustainable life long way?  Like with any skill set that is worth learning, it takes time to develop and reintegrate the unity of mind and body in a conscious and meaningful way.  This long term course is a full time commitment that allows you to take a deep dive into the skills of this profound technique that help, very eloquently, with self regulation every moment of every day.   This course will:

• Teach you to confidently embody principles of the Alexander technique. 
• Develop and refine the use and functioning of the yourself through direct practical experience. 
• Teach you the unique skills used in the Alexander Technique to a high level of proficiency allowing for increased self regulation. .

Learn a set a skills that help enlarge and sharpen experiences; find the unity of the conscious and the unconscious;  develop the continuity within the self and between self and the environment; learn the operational significance of inhibition and direction; the indivisibility of time and space. 

By taking this course in person you can also develop the skills related to being able to teach the Alexander work. On completion you will have met the following teaching requirements that will allow you to become a certified teacher.

TEACHER CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Should you wish to certify as a teacher of the technique, you must demonstrate a high level of proficiency in each of the following areas:

 1. A practical understanding of F. M. Alexander’s basic principles associated with the use of the self; inhibition, direction, primary control, end-gaining and the means-whereby, doing and non-doing, faulty sensory appreciation, and conscious control, as represented in F.M. Alexander’s writings and contemporary writings regarding the development and practical teaching of his Technique.

 2. Maintaining a high standard of use of the self while teaching the Alexander Technique and during ordinary activity.

 3. Performing and teaching Alexander’s basic procedures: positions of mechanical advantage, chair work, table work, hands on the back of the chair, and whispered “ah,”

4. Teaching the basic concepts of the Technique to a student through manual skills in combination with verbal explanation and instruction.

5. Applying the principles of the Technique using manual and verbal instruction while assisting a student in the performance of specialized activities.

6. Aiding the student in applying principles of the Technique independent of the teacher.

7. A comprehensive knowledge and understanding of F. M. Alexander’s writings regarding the development and practical teaching of his Technique, as well as a familiarity with his life, the history of the Technique and additional literature pertaining to the Technique.

8. A basic knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and current research related to understanding and teaching the Alexander Technique.

These requirements are internationally recognized by the Alexander Technique Affiliate Society (ATAS) and the American Society for the Alexander technique (AmSAT).

Please send an email to naturalpoise@gmail.com , titled "Teacher Training" or "Long Term Course" to find out more.