Workshop with Peter Nobes and Lulie Tanett.
Saturday November 7th, 2pm to 5pm.
Being Fully Conscious in the Here-and-Now.
This will be a deep workshop on living more effortlessly. Explore what it is like to be you, without the layers of should-do’s and have-to-be’s, and what acting from this place makes possible.
Email us for more information.
October Intensive Weekend with Bill Conable and Peter Nobes.
October 9th to 12th
Bill possibly been teaching longer than any other Alexander teacher, having started in the early 1970s. He says he is not likely to come to Europe again, so it would be a pity to miss this opportunity to learn from his wisdom and long experience.
- Bill is doing a workshop on Friday afternoon, and one-to-one lessons on Monday.
- Bill and Peter are doing a workshop together on Saturday 10:30 t0 4:30.
- Our Intensive Weekend will be on Friday evening and Sunday as usual.
You are welcome to join us for these, or for all, or part of the weekend.
If you want a taste of what we’re going to do, this is the blurb for a workshop we’re doing together in Germany the following week:
The Alexander Technique: Bodywork? Consciousness work? Both?
The Alexander Technique often looks like, is perceived as, and is promoted as a body modality that improves posture, balance and movement. Yet FM said the core of his work is an enlivened conscious mind. His books focus more on personal transformation and societal change than on bodies. Why this mismatch?
Bill developed Body Mapping; Peter bases his work on enlivening the conscious mind and rarely addresses the body. And yet they consider themselves Alexander soulmates. They have the same favourite quote from FM. “I use the term ‘conscious guidance and control’ to indicate primarily a plane to be reached rather than a method of reaching it”.
How do we square the circle? A clue might be in Evolution of a Technique, where FM clearly says he is laying out the steps he took to discover, not the head/neck/back relationship, but unity of mind and body. If the work is about unity, surely it should have mental and physical benefits equally?
In this workshop we’ll find out, if FM’s work is about reaching a plane of conscious control, how does body mapping help? And if it’s about posture, balance and movement, how does an enlivened conscious mind help?
We’ll have fun experimenting with this, trying out our ideas hands-on in pairs or small groups, and go away with new ways of getting the principles across to our students. And applying them to our own lives.
Intensive Weekend with Peter Nobes and Penny O’Connor.
September 11th to 13th.
You are welcome to come and join us for the weekend, or a day, or half a day.
Email for more information: info@alexandercentre.co.uk
Workshop with Peter Nobes and Jeremy Chance.
When? Saturday August 1st, 2pm to 5pm
Where? Blackfriars Rd, London SE1
For whom? Teachers, trainees, and experienced ‘learners’.
Cost? £90
My trainees and I usually have a break in August, but when Jeremy told me he was going to be in London, I booked him.
You are welcome to join us for this workshop. Jeremy is going to be working with Alexander-informed trauma work and/or his Five Postural Joints.
I am going to do something about how to teach what is in FM’s books, and therefore what FM was actually teaching. In his writings, the mental and spiritual benefits to be gained from the Technique far outweigh the physical, so we’ll experiment with ways to teach these mental and spiritual benefits.
Whether you are an ‘everyday activities’ teacher or use ‘traditional procedures’, you’ll leave with new ideas about the work, and new, possibly controversial, definitions for concepts like ‘directions’, ‘primary control’, and ‘inhibition’.
There will be no class on Wednesday June 24th.
We will be at the retreat in France – see below!
Alexander retreat in France with Peter Nobes and Cécile Rist
June 21st to 26th, in Nanteau-sur-Lunain, a small village south of Paris.
We’re planning long days of Alexander, with Cécile teaching in the morning and Peter in the afternoon. And good home-cooked food.
Workshop with Peter Nobes and Lulie Tanett
Saturday June 25th, 2pm to 5pm.
Photo ©Tali Kimelman
The Alexander Technique is a practical way of learning how to come back to yourself—out of habit, tension and distraction, and into the immediacy of the present moment.
Yes, it improves posture, balance and ease of movement, but those are really side‑effects of something more fundamental: discovering how to stop interfering with your natural mind-body coordination. In an introductory workshop, people often find that their bodies reorganise, their thinking sharpens, and a surprising clarity of mind and body emerges. It’s a simple, embodied route to living more fully in the here‑and‑now.
This is suitable for everyone from complete ‘beginners’ to Alexander teachers and trainees.
When? Saturday April 25th, 2pm to 5pm
Where? South Bank Alexander Technique Centre, Blackfriars Rd London SE1
Cost? £50.
SIgn up, or ask for more information, here:
Peter Nobes has been teaching the Alexander Technique since 1993. He is based in central London and has taught the Alexander work in fifteen countries on five continents.
He is the author of Illusion or Reality: are we teaching what FM Alexander was teaching? which explains what is in FM Alexander’s books, and Mindfulness in 3D – the Alexander Technique for the 21st Century.
When he isn’t teaching, Peter builds wooden boats and then rows, paddles and sails them.
Lulie Tanett is an Alexander Technique teacher based in Oxford. She trained with Peter Nobes, and had additional training with Gilles Estran and Bill Conable.
Lulie has a background in philosophy, runs a podcast on applied epistemology, and works in emotional development and coaching, where she trained with the Art of Accomplishment.
When she isn’t teaching, she likes to draw and paint.
Information about the May Intensive Weekend will be posted shortly.
The April Intensive Weekend is coming up. It’s on Friday 10th to Sunday 12th.
Our special guest teacher is Rachel Prabhakar, an Alexander teacher and Pilates instructor from Boston.
The weekend starts at 5 on Friday and finishes at 5:30 on Sunday. You are welcome to come to all of it, or a day, or just half a day. Saturday is the best day for ‘beginners’.
Rachel is also available for one-to-one lessons on Monday.
Peter’s new book, ‘Illusion or Reality’, has been published.
Download the first chapter here:
The next Saturday morning ‘open’ session will be on May 9th, 10:30am to 1pm.
Group sessions on Wednesday evenings.
We’re doing weekly classes on Wednesday evenings, 6:30 to 8:30pm.