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Applying the Principles directly to the moments and activities of a student’s daily and professional life is the core of a contemporary style of teaching – to offer the Work in critical and meaningful moments of real life. This means we use our hands while people are doing whatever they do – playing an instrument, working at a computer, dancing tango, hammering a nail, walking their dog, or having a challenging conversation.

This requires us to be able to access the whole student from wherever our hands can easily make contact; to be able to offer clear, direct, kinesthetic and verbal information within the pacing of their activity. It requires us to use not just our hands, but our whole bodies, so we do not interfere with the realistic movements and timing of their activity while we offer them new information and choices. For some, this is a new level of hands-on skill, being quite different from the requirements of table-work or chair-work.

In this class you will learn how to use all parts of your hands and body to communicate. You will learn how to use your skills for accessing innate design, releasing the neck/head, or identifying and releasing habitual patterns through any part of the student’s body – while the student is engaged in their activity.

You will also learn how to create a container for teaching a student in a challenging life situation (LifeWork). This is one of the most poignant applications of our Work – to access choice in the most charged and vulnerable moments of life. You will also learn effective hand skills for group teaching – for example. how to quickly offer a ‘taste’ of AT to everyone, without taking too much time; or how to ‘shadow’ – to work with students while they are observing, so as not to interrupt their experience.

Teaching the Work directly through a student’s activity requires unique hands-on skills, as does teaching in group settings. This class offers you the necessary skills for doing both, while increasing your own ‘Alexander Toolbox’.