A presentation from the University of Limerick introducing students to the Alexander Technique.

1. UniversityofLimerickIrish World Academy of Music and DanceIntroduction to the Alexander Technique Presented by Niall Kelly MSc(Mngt), MIITD, MSTAT, MISATT Organisation Development Consultant Alexander Technique Teacher

2. You translate everything – Whether physical, mental or spiritual into muscular tension

3. Environment shapes us Tree Sources of tension Internal – mind and body External –goals and tasks, relationships, CCC

5. Our environments shape us

6. environments

7. External environments: WMD WMD

12. Sitting

13. Gravity

15. Internal environments Mental and Physical

16. Internal environments Thoughts Attitudes Beliefs Neurology

17. AMS - Adaptive Muscle Syndrome

18. Our Mind and Body Are One

19. “Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character.Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”

20. habits

25. “People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures”

26. history

28. Teaching objectives

29. Directions – cumulative & reiterative Allow my neck to be free Allow my neck to be free so that my head goes forward and up Allow my neck to be free so that my head goes forward and up to allow my back lengthen and widen Allow my neck to be free so that my head goes forward and up to allow my back lengthen and widen and my shoulders to move away from each other and back towards the floor

30. Directions Not doing Only Allowing

31. Teaching Objectives Creating Awareness Learning to Inhibit Devising new Means whereby Consciously implementing the new means whereby through giving Directions

32. Rules of the Road There is No doing Only Directing And allowing

33. Expressing and Invoking emotion without succumbing to it Soprano Anna Netrebko singing " Quando m'en vo" from La Boheme. Placido Domingo conducting

34. Dr Nick Neave, Northumbria University WE FOUND THAT (WOMEN PAID MORE ATTENTION TO) THE CORE BODY REGION: THE TORSO, THE NECK, THE HEAD” END QUOTEDR NICK NEAVENORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY

36. Grading - BASED on your: Participating in classes: Openly experiment, explore, reflect, discuss and gain insights which you record in your journal Submitting 3 short Reflection papers: 1 immediately, 1 pre mid-term & 1 pre semester end Attending and Attention: Do the lie-down daily, no absences, lates, early departures, excessive toilet breaks, phones, chatting, falling asleep, generally not paying attention.