Free Intro to the Alexander Technique- with Gabriella & Victoria

Meditators are invited to learn about Alexander technique

Both meditation and Alexander technique offer skills that can be integrated into daily life and affect the state of body-mind. We invite meditators to participate in this workshop, which will provide an introduction to Alexander technique. Through experiences and reflections, we will unpack some basic concepts of the Alexander technique. We will highlight skills from the application of the Alexander technique that may support the practice of meditation. We bring to this workshop our experiences in both modalities. We encourage anyone who meditates regularly to join us for this one-hour online workshop.

About the Presenters:

Gaby Minnes Brandes

Gabriella Minnes Brandes, Ph.D., has been teaching the Alexander Technique for over 30 years. She has maintained an active practice at the Alexander Technique Centre in Vancouver. She has been invited to run Alexander workshops for musicians, singers, and horseback riders, engineers (among others) as well as workshops for Alexander teachers. For over a decade she taught the Alexander Technique in the Theatre department at Capilano University. Informed by her Ph.D. in education, her research interests are the connections between creativity, music making, performance and the application of concepts of the Alexander Technique in different contexts, as well as the connections and tensions between Alexander Technique and Mindfulness. Gaby is also interested in exploring how current theories in pedagogy and curriculum inform training Alexander teachers. Gaby works extensively in collaboration with musicians, voice, movement and acting instructors. She is an active member of the Canadian Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique, Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (UK), American Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique, Professional Association of Alexander Teachers, and an elected co-chair of Alexander Technique International.

More information available at https://sites.google.com/view/alexandertechniquecentre

Victoria Door

Victoria Door PhD is a founder member of PAAT and director of PAAT’s Continuing Professional Development and is a member of ATI. She is part of PAAT’s international teacher training team. Victoria worked in private practice in the Alexander Technique for 10 years before taking the skills she had learnt in the Technique into secondary school education. She lectured in teacher education at Keele University, having got a PhD on the topic of Attention at the University of Bath. Victoria has an MSc in Mindfulness-Based Approaches at the University of Bangor and is currently researching the relationship of Alexander Technique with mindfulness. She teaches Alexander Technique and Mindfulness-Based courses to individuals and groups in person and online.

More information available at https://www.paat.org.uk