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UNIVERSITY of LIMERICKIRISH WORLD ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND
DANCEIntroduction to the Alexander Technique
Presented by
Niall Kelly MSc(Mngt), MIITD, MSTAT, MISATTOrganisation Development Consultant
Alexander Technique Teacher
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You translate everything –
Whether physical, mental or spiritual
into muscular tension
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Environment shapes us
• Tree• Sources of tension
– Internal – mind and body– External –goals and tasks, relationships, CCC
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environments
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External environments: WMD
– WMD
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Sitting
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Gravity
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INTERNAL ENVIRONMENTSMental and Physical
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Internal environments
ThoughtsAttitudesBeliefsNeurology
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AMS - Adaptive Muscle Syndrome
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Our Mind and Body Are One
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“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.”
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HABITS
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“People do not
decide their futures,
they decide their habits
and their habits decide their futures”
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history
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Teaching objectives
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Directions – cumulative & reiterative
1. Allow my neck to be free2. Allow my neck to be free so that my head goes
forward and up3. Allow my neck to be free so that my head goes
forward and up to allow my back lengthen and widen
4. 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
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Directions
Not doingOnly
Allowing
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Teaching Objectives
• Creating Awareness• Learning to Inhibit• Devising new Means whereby • Consciously implementing the
new means whereby through giving DIRECTIONS
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Rules of the Road
There is No doingOnly
DirectingAnd
allowing
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Expressing and Invoking emotion without succumbing to it
Soprano Anna Netrebko singing " Quando m'en vo" from La Boheme. Placido Domingo conducting
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Dr Nick Neave, Northumbria University
WE FOUND THAT (WOMEN PAID MORE ATTENTION TO) THE
CORE BODY REGION: THE TORSO, THE
NECK, THE HEAD”END QUOTE DR NICK NEAVE
NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY
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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.