EJR's Alexander Technique Training
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The Alexander Technique became my passion when I found that it helped me to greatly reduce pain in my chronically inflamed hip, neck and shoulder. In studying the technique to heal myself, I have gained a pressing desire to teach and help others in pain. I want very much to become a certified instructor, and for this I need your help.
The next training session at the Alexander Training Institute LA begins April 11 and is available as either a 6 week intensive ($1650 - 90hrs), or a full 11 week trimester ($3000 - 165hrs) .
Thus, I need cash fast!
Adding to the drama of this deadline, training in the Alexander Technique this summer is pre/co-requisite to my graduate studies that will begin in the Fall, as the work I will do when I get there relies on this expertise.
Let's get me to 11 weeks of training!
Help me gather that elusive green!
Help me cure your chronic pain!
Alexander lessons for all who contribute!!!!!!
BLESS YOU
~EJ
THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
Who does it?
Dancers, actors, atheletes, anybody. People who wish to gain nuanced control of their bodies. People who may have chronic tension, disorganized muscle groups, a stutter, anxiety, a lingering injury etc.
Who loves it?
John Dewey, Aldous Huxley, Paul Newman, Juliette Binoche, George Bernard Shaw, Nikolaas Tinbergen,
Emily Jane Rosen, Sir Charles Sherrington
What is it?
A system of physical learning towards a more efficient use of self, towards less tension and pain and more groundedness.
"..a reeducation of the mind and body.. "
"The Alexander Technique is a way of learning to move mindfully through life. The Alexander process shines a light on inefficient habits of movement and patterns of accumulated tension, which interfere with our innate ability to move easily and according to how we are designed. It’s a simple yet powerful approach that offers the opportunity to take charge of one’s own learning and healing process, because it’s not a series of passive treatments but an active exploration that changes the way one thinks and responds in activity. It produces a skill set that can be applied in every situation. Lessons leave one feeling lighter, freer, and more grounded."
Who invented it?
F.M. Alexander, around the turn of the 20th century.
He was a Shakespearean reciter who had a horrible problem of going horse on stage and completely losing his voice. Doctors were perplexed and recommended he not speak. Rest didn't help, after two weeks of silence he'd get on the stage and be horse by the end of it. He took the mystery into his own hands, and surrounding himself with mirrors to watch himself perform he found that he was compressing his head and neck in an affort to project. A muscularly confused reaction to a command verb! Now that he had become aware, he trained himself to stop, and to choose a new action in reaction to verb "speak and project". With training, his new choice became is new habit and his voice ceased to go horse. Students rushed in, he cured people of horseness, stutters, pain. He trained teachers and the rest is history. (There's a long history! Teachers leading into various linneages of the study etc..)
The next training session at the Alexander Training Institute LA begins April 11 and is available as either a 6 week intensive ($1650 - 90hrs), or a full 11 week trimester ($3000 - 165hrs) .
Thus, I need cash fast!
Adding to the drama of this deadline, training in the Alexander Technique this summer is pre/co-requisite to my graduate studies that will begin in the Fall, as the work I will do when I get there relies on this expertise.
Let's get me to 11 weeks of training!
Help me gather that elusive green!
Help me cure your chronic pain!
Alexander lessons for all who contribute!!!!!!
BLESS YOU
~EJ
THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
Who does it?
Dancers, actors, atheletes, anybody. People who wish to gain nuanced control of their bodies. People who may have chronic tension, disorganized muscle groups, a stutter, anxiety, a lingering injury etc.
Who loves it?
John Dewey, Aldous Huxley, Paul Newman, Juliette Binoche, George Bernard Shaw, Nikolaas Tinbergen,
Emily Jane Rosen, Sir Charles Sherrington
What is it?
A system of physical learning towards a more efficient use of self, towards less tension and pain and more groundedness.
"..a reeducation of the mind and body.. "
"The Alexander Technique is a way of learning to move mindfully through life. The Alexander process shines a light on inefficient habits of movement and patterns of accumulated tension, which interfere with our innate ability to move easily and according to how we are designed. It’s a simple yet powerful approach that offers the opportunity to take charge of one’s own learning and healing process, because it’s not a series of passive treatments but an active exploration that changes the way one thinks and responds in activity. It produces a skill set that can be applied in every situation. Lessons leave one feeling lighter, freer, and more grounded."
Who invented it?
F.M. Alexander, around the turn of the 20th century.
He was a Shakespearean reciter who had a horrible problem of going horse on stage and completely losing his voice. Doctors were perplexed and recommended he not speak. Rest didn't help, after two weeks of silence he'd get on the stage and be horse by the end of it. He took the mystery into his own hands, and surrounding himself with mirrors to watch himself perform he found that he was compressing his head and neck in an affort to project. A muscularly confused reaction to a command verb! Now that he had become aware, he trained himself to stop, and to choose a new action in reaction to verb "speak and project". With training, his new choice became is new habit and his voice ceased to go horse. Students rushed in, he cured people of horseness, stutters, pain. He trained teachers and the rest is history. (There's a long history! Teachers leading into various linneages of the study etc..)
Organizer
Emily Jane Rosen
Organizer
Los Angeles, CA