+ Here are some of our Post-Graduate Modules, offered on a rotating schedule:

• Advanced Hand Skills - The High Art of Touch

Explore a diverse range of tools for developing the ability to receive and offer information through touch. You will learn how to see, feel, know, and understand who you are touching and how their inner world is functioning. What are their strategies and patterns - at each layer (bones, muscles, organ, thought, energy, etc)? Where do they move easily and where is the internal interference?
Similarly, you will learn how to offer new information through non-manipulative, compassionate, patient contact. You will learn how to modify the volume of your hands - speaking very quietly or with great emphasis - without pushing or pulling. You will learn how the quality of your whole being - mind, body, emotion, spirit, energy - affects your hands.

• Art of Group Teaching

This Module offers the basic skills for highly dynamic and experiential group teaching.
Group Teaching is an art form. It is not the same as teaching an individual lesson that is witnessed by a group. Rather, it is multi-dimensional teaching - tracking not only each student, but the group itself, as a dynamic, conscious body. Teachers will learn the fundamentals of group teaching; specific group activities and games which offer participants a direct experience the Principles of the Work; and tools for designing your own new group teaching material.

• Crafting AT Games & Etudes

The AT Games Module teaches you how to design effective experiential studies for individuals and groups which allow students to have a direct, clear experience of the Principles of the Work.

• Contemporary Procedures & Applications

This Module offers an experiential and pedagogical understanding of Alexander Procedures. Procedures are like etudes - small studies which highlight a particular skill, offering a form for repetition and exploration. Students will learn the fundamentals of both classical and contemporary procedures, and how to use them in your teaching practice. We will also learn how to create your own procedures, tailored to the population you are teaching.

• Making a Living as an Alexander Teacher - Teaching Successful Introductory Workshops

This Module teaches you how to craft simple and effective introductory workshops. Whether you have 2 hours or 2 days, you can offer new students a direct experience of the Work and how it can change their life, without jargon or lengthy and often confusing explanations. You will learn how to use language that speaks to the interests and needs of different communities. Introductory Workshops are a reliable and effective way to build your practice. If you can offer a taste of what the Work can do, students will come for lessons!

• Activity Work & Life Work - Learn how to Teach the Work through real-life activities and situations

This Module offers you the necessary tools and hand skills for working with students while they do whatever they do. One of the distinguishing aspects of Alexander’s Work is that it is designed to be applied while you are doing something - it fundamentally needs an activity of life. Life Work teaches you how to help your student access the Principles within the most critical moments of the real life - while they are performing or having a difficult conversation or under a stressful deadline. It is a very different skill to use the Principles in real-life moments - when we actualy need them the most!

• Bridging Classical & Contemporary Perspectives

This unique module offers a direct, hands-on and pedagogical blending of classical and contemporary styles, forms, and procedures. You will learn to separate the content of the Work from the form, allowing the Work to remain timely and accessible.

• Body, Breath & Sound for Alexander Teachers - Freeing your voice and breath (Taught by BBS Creator, Adriana Hardy)

This Module offers you tools for recognizing and releasing habituals patterns of breathing and sounding. Focus is on identifying your personal interference patterns, especially when you are teaching. There is particular attention given to the relationship between your breath/vocal patterns and your ability to use your hands effectively with another person.

• Living in a Body™

LIAB™ is a 20 hour body mapping certification course which offers a simple, clear, and fun exploration of the basic mechanics of human movement and support. It is the quintessential owner’s guide to using our bodies in accordance with our design, allowing people of all ages to experience ease in their body. The LIAB™ curriculum uses simple games of sensory awareness, somatic re-education, and metaphor to teach you how your body is designed to move with ease and grace. The course is an essential tool for all Alexander Teachers!

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You will learn how to quickly evaluate the most essential issues, teach in short, concise 20 minute lessons, create clear practice ‘homework’ for each student, teach in small groups around specific themes as well as in large group formats. You will have the opportunity to teach private lessons, chamber ensembles, and large groups.

The schedule is full, offering daily Alexander training class every morning, followed by the observation and teaching of private lessons in the afternoons, and participation in group workshops in the evenings.

You will learn:

• to recognize habits of thought and movement which interfere with student’s innate coordination and natural ease.
• to notice and change tension patterns which cause unnecessary stress, pain, or injury.
• how to help students increase technical proficiency without over-efforting.
• new insights on efficient practice, performance anxiety, and transforming technique into artistry.

You will leave with new skills and new confidence in your ability to address the specific needs of string players.