Poised For Life

Lesson Locations:

Mon: Pentrecwrt
Tue: Pentrecwrt
Wed: Pentrecwrt
Thurs am: Carmarthen
Fri: Pentrecwrt
Sat: by arrangement
eves: by arrangement

Pentrecwrt is near llandysul and Newcastle Emlyn

Pentrecwrt and Carmarthen are reachable from large parts of Carmarthenshire, Ceridigion and Pembrokeshire.

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In a Nutshell:

I have 21 years experience of teaching the Alexander Technique to people from all walks of life. I have 47 years of exposure to it with a father who trained with Mr Alexander in the 1950s. I am fully Society of Teachers (S.T.A.T.) qualified and insured and have been police checked. I enjoy working individually with each person's unique challenges and gifts.

My Background
I have been blessed to have had exposure to the Alexander Technique all my life, to have trained with one of the best known and respected Alexander teachers apart from Alexander himself and to now have over 20 years of teaching experience of the Technique behind me.

Let me say a little more about this: My father trained with Mr FM Alexander on his last training course (1951-55) and years later also met there and married my mother who had joined the school as a student in 1961. Before she completed her training I came along, followed soon after by my sister. Apparently I crawled about the floor of the room in Holland Park, London where I subsequently, many years later, became a student Alexander teacher in 1987!

Since then, following in the footsteps of my father I suppose (who taught for 48 years, right up until 3 days before he died), I have been quietly getting on with teaching individuals from all walks of life how to learn this technique for themselves – supporting people to learn the practical skills of having greater ease in their bodies and to discover the expanded possibilities that come from a more mindful way of living.

My Alexander Training
To become a teacher of this work really is a skill that continues to develop throughout life. The training itself is a three year full-time course – my training was done from 1987-1990 with Walter and Dilys Carrington in London and from Margaret Goldie – a teacher who, in her 90s when she taught me, had trained on Alexander’s first ever training school in 1932. She was a true ‘master’ in that she asked for nothing less than diligence in self-enquiry and challenged every moment of effortful ‘doing’ energy that got in the way of being fully present. She allowed no one to take photos of her, she wrote nothing and everything she passed on was done by her hands and gente but firm voice: ‘Come to quiet’ was her focal message.
The skilled use of the hands continues to develop from then onwards just by teaching, enquiring and experience.

Other Trainings
Having spent the last 5 years immersing myself in the teachings of Marshall Rosenberg and Nonviolent Communication, I have now been recommended by my assessors to be an internationally recognised Certified Trainer of NVC. This is a method of communicating with ourselves and others that is compassionate and collaborative in nature. It complements the Alexander Technique very well.

I have also in 2010 completed the full Permaculture [Permanent Culture] Design course. Permaculture is about understanding and using the maximum number of beneficial relationships between all the elements of what you have, historically applied to agriculture but the teachings apply to all of living.

I am a mother to Isabella (now a teenager) and have learnt masses from seeing things from a child’s perspective, from the challenges parenting brings and the learning I have gained through wanting to birth and raise her as naturally and healthily as possible. It also gave me a lot of insight into the particular challenges to posture and poise in pregnancy.

Alexander Technique, Nonviolent Communication and Permaculture are the three main disciplines that inform how I live and teach.