If We Can’t Touch,
How Do We Teach?
This global pandemic is requiring everyone to think and to act differently.
Sadly, some of the things we have to do to keep safe are the very things
that will continue to make it even tougher for us to earn a living.
(Especially if you’ve never had quite enough students to begin with)
What Can You Do Now To Assure Your
Livelihood Going Forward?
How To Really
Teach A.T. Online
An Introduction to:
PrimalAlexander
The First Alexander Technique Teacher Training Path
Developed Specifically For Online Teaching!
Hi…I’m Mio Morales. I’m an Alexander teacher/trainer who trained with Dr. Frank Pierce Jones from 1972-1975 and Marjorie Barstow from 1972-1993.
Since 2005, I’ve been teaching & training Alexander teachers using a unique approach to the Alexander Technique developed to address the specific limitations & possibilities inherent in online teaching.
PrimalAlexander™ (P.A.) is a step-by-step teaching system informed by Alexander’s ‘Evolution of a Technique’, the work of Dr. Frank Pierce Jones, Marjorie Barstow’s work & my more than 3,000 hours of research into online teaching & training.
It’s a comprehensive, hands-free, distance teaching method that’s already proving to be of tremendous benefit to a growing community of Alexander teachers hailing from a wide variety of training backgrounds.
“How To Really Teach A.T. Online” is my 12 week entry level training for Alexander teachers serious about learning an authentic, non-compromising comprehensive way to teach the Alexander Technique, online or in person, without any hands-on guidance
This course is Level 1 of TheCoachingClub™, my post-graduate training program for Alexander teachers looking to reach, teach and keep more new students using the internet both as a teaching and marketing medium
This course will erase any doubts you may have about the effectiveness of online teaching because you will be able to see for yourself the effect it has upon you and your students.
“How To Really Teach A.T. Online” will build your confidence in the power of online teaching and will provide you with the skills & strategies needed to teach powerful Alexander lessons without having to use your hands.
Here are some of the things you can look forward to learning…
- How to facilitate a new student’s head neck reflex without hands-on
- How to accurately observe the quality of someone’s Use on a screen
- Movement studies that will improve a student’s use between classes sessions.
- A blueprint for a 45 minute private online lesson
- How use your voice to induce ease in a student
- How to teach groups online
- How to begin marketing yourself as an online A.T. Teacher
What is Primal Alexander?
Primal Alexander™ is a step by step approach to teaching The Alexander Technique that focuses on teaching students how to experiment with their thinking and their movement in a way that leads to improved Use and is reminiscent of the process Alexander himself used.
By applying a different kind of directing and a graduated series of self-study “études”, Primal Alexander™ provides students and teachers with a straight forward, easy to follow blueprint for improvement and empowerment.
P.A. is a self-healing process that uses Inhibition & self-observation to create a gap between the stimulus to act and our response.
In that gap, timely constructive thinking allows our native movement intelligence to preempt our habitual way of moving while it reinforces the neural pathways that lead to better Use at that moment and in the future.
Three of the assets within Primal Alexander™ that any Alexander teacher can immediately take advantage of will be the focus of this course. They are:
- An awareness process called 3EasyQuestions™,
- A collection of home-study activities called TheÉtudes™ &
- A mindframe called ThePrimaryConcern™
3EasyQuestions
3EasyQuestions™ is my approach to teaching constructive conscious control. It’s based on the simple discovery that when a person directs their attention to places of relative ease in their body, the head/neck reflex is facilitated.
Here’s how it works:
When exploring the possibility of easier movement, after inhibiting, in the gap between stimulus and response, instead of traditional orders or directing, you quickly assess these three things about yourself in sequence:
- Where you’re currently noticing places of relative ease,
- What effect is noticing that ease having on your general Use and functioning and lastly…
- How that effect is changing as you begin to engage in your activity.
This gentle, but focused curiosity about the ease you’re currently experiencing shifts your attention in a way that circumvents your usual habit patterns.
It facilitates the Primary Control which reorganizes your movement on the fly, allowing you to perform the activity with increased ease.
As a form of Constructive Thinking, 3EasyQuestions™ allows the actual direction to come from the natural adaptive response of your nervous system.
You make a conscious choice to direct your attention to ease and then stand back and notice what happens. This prevents you from imposing a habitual feeling-based concept of forward, up, head, neck or body upon the process.
3EasyQuestions™ is a new take on constructive conscious control that is so easy to implement it can be taught to a brand new student in a first lesson.
In the hands of a teacher, it also becomes a potent self-healing tool that reveals and erodes deep habitual patterns that tend to be imperceptible & therefore impenetrable.
TheEtudes
TheÉtudes™ are the “lightweight” home study activities that students do for a few minutes every day. They form the practice material they use to actualize what they are learning in the group class.
Like the Études in classical music pedagogy, these are studies; opportunities for students to learn specific skills in a simplified, focused setting. When done regularly the Études…
- Give students a simple way to practice directing
- Keep them engaged with their studies between lessons.
- Empower them in their own learning
- Provide a way of facilitating the Primary Control on their own.
- Give them a way to improve their Use whenever they want.
- Teach Inhibition, Non-doing and Directing quickly.
- Improve their sensory appreciation.
- Develop the awareness they’ll need to apply the Technique in any activity.
ThePrimaryConcern
The foundational concept that underlies all of PrimalAlexander I call “The Primary Concern”. It is the root formulation of the self-experimental process that Alexander pioneered. The Primary Concern takes the form of the question:
What’s happening to my Use as I _____?
(any activity can be put in that blank)
When you can ask and answer that question a few times during an activity, you’ve begun to “think in activity”. It’s the key to understanding how the “end” you’re trying to gain is affecting the way you’re using yourself. Namely, how the manner in which you are doing things NOW is affecting your present and future ability to function efficiently (the “means whereby”).
Asking that question brings the “end” and the “means whereby” into the same frame so that you’re able view the changes in each simultaneously.
That way, when the way you’re doing something begins to interfere with your coordination, you become aware of it and have a chance to make a change.
That’s the bigger picture of how the Études function in Primal Alexander. Through consistent daily practice, they quickly teach a student the value of “thinking in activity” and a simple way to do it.
The Experimental Process
“A new field of practical experimentation on the living human being”
The above quote is from the beginning of “The Use of the Self”; it’s Alexander’s description of his work . In my opinion, the key to getting the most out of Alexander’s discoveries is to follow him, as best we can, down that road of self-experimenting.
Primal Alexander™is a step by step systematic learning and teaching process designed to help you to improve your own Use by teaching you, first and foremost, how to EXPERIMENT!
That is, how to use movement, experimentation, observation and desire for change as the means whereby one can systematically improve the quality of one’s own Use of themselves.
By applying a different kind of directing and a graduated series of self-study “études”, Primal Alexander™ provides students and teachers with a straight forward, easy to follow blueprint for continual improvement.
It’s a self-healing process that uses Inhibition & self-observation to create a gap between stimulus and response that allows our native movement intelligence to preempt our habits of movement while reinforcing the neural pathways that lead to better Use right now and in the future
In that gap, our native movement intelligence can preempt our habitual way of moving while it reinforces the neural pathways that lead to better Use now and in the future.
“You can do what I do if you’ll do what I did.”
In this course you will learn how to become aware of and then subsequently untie the psycho-physical knots that limit your effectiveness as practitioner and teacher of the Alexander Technique.
With an assortment of new tools and objective feedback from me and the other members of this course you’ll be able to enhance and refine your teaching much more quickly, assuredly and easily than you could on your own.
Here’s the basic curriculum:
- TheTeachers12™(The 12 Etudes teachers do daily)
- 10 Week Game Plan For Teaching TheStudentEtudes™
- Blueprint for a 45 minute, one on one first lesson
- Intro to SubtleMovementEmpathy™ (Observation)
- Intro to VoiceTouch™ (Using your voice to induce improvement)
- Intro to HiveMindfulness™(Teaching groups online)
- Intro to ConstructiveConversing™(Verbal teaching strategies)
- Intro to MeansWherebyMarketing™ (Building a following online)
The HandsFree Teaching skills you will acquire will enable you to teach authentic and powerful Alexander Technique lessons in situations where hands-on guidance is either not optimal or, in some cases, not even possible.
The bottom line is that you’ll discover an elegantly simpler way to “stick to principle” and “Think in Activity”. And you’ll do both more fully and more often while teaching and in your daily life so that you can more deeply enjoy and share this wonderful work with the world.
The Course In a Nutshell
“How To Really Teach A.T. Online”
A 12 Week Training For Alexander Teachers
August 18th – November 7th
Class Meets Twice a Week
Tuesday @ 12PM
Saturday @ 3PM
Eastern U.S. Timezone.
Members Only
Facebook Group
Very active for posting questions,
assignments and getting
my feedback via video.
Classes are 2 Hours Long
Each class begins with the études & ends with me teaching 2 or 3,
one on one mini-lessons.
Three Private
Mini Lessons
During the run of the course everyone will receive at least 3
One on One Mini-Lessons
Every Class is Recorded
Recordings are available same
day & can be accessed for 1
month after the course ends.
Group Teaching Practice
We’ll be using Zoom’s breakout room feature for a ton of teaching practice and discussion.
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Q & A
Hey!
The last time I gave this course was this past Winter and it went really well. After it was over, I sent out a questionnaire to the attendees asking a variety of questions to get a real sense of what they had gotten out of the time we had just spent together. Below are some of the questions I asked and a bunch of their answers. You can use the left & right arrows to see more of their responses.
1. What changes have you noticed in
yourself as a result of the course?
New Focus on Ease… Read More
The new focus on facilitating ease on the spot, whatever I do wherever I am is always so delightful and so empowering. I am more myself in certain situations and after 20 years of AT and I worked all these years quite regular, I now have a mental working tool to speak ‘when I am ready to speak’ Can’t believe what took me so long . Hahaha Thank you for that especially.
Staying w/ myself… Read More
There are so many! One is my trust in myself. My observation has improved greatly. Noticing what happens in me as I see another person or as I see a movement has helped me to be more responsive to my students. Staying with myself is improving. I would also say being with stressful situations in a new way gave me a new tools to be with uncomfortable feelings and to trust the place I am meeting in myself. I’ve also noticed an overall softness and clearer expression of myself.
Life-Long Learning Tool Read More
Gosh, where do I start?! It has changed and opened up my thinking in all sorts of ways. The reason I have always loved and been passionate about AT is because it is a life-long learning tool, and I’m always amazed and delighted by how my thinking can be challenged, changed and opened out – I just didn’t expect this from online work.
Recognize Habit More Read More
I recognize habit more and am able to affect a change in my thinking. It has been very pleasant.
Greater Ability To Recognize End-Gaining Read More
Changes in thinking that affect use. Changes in use that affect sensitivity; Greater capacity to recognize and accept unusual sensory experience. A decrease but not a cessation, of the desire to “fix things that are wrong” Greater ability to recognize end-gaining. Greater confidence in my agency as a teacher.
Allowing Rather Than ‘Doing’ Read More
There have been so many changes! More sensitivity to what’s happening in myself, mentally and physically – ‘allowing’ rather than ‘doing’ in my thinking which has led to loads of emotional and physical changes. Accessing a deeper consciousness.
I’m Picking Up More Subtle Things… Read More
I’ve noticed that I am picking up more subtle things that my students are doing to themselves than I could at the beginning of the course. I’ve also noticed that I am not getting stuck in feeling as much as I was at the beginning of the course. My constructive thinking seems to be much clearer with less internal dialogue going along with it.
Sciatic Pain Has All But Disappeared… Read More
More awareness, increased sensitivity, my sciatic pain has all but disappeared
More Confident To Offer Online Sessions… Read More
After my Etude practice I always feel softer and less held just as I do after a lesson with a good AT teacher. Also, I feel so much more confident to offer online sessions
Easier To Access Ease… Read More
I generally feel calmer, less reactive, and more objectively observant of myself and others.
I find it much ‘easier’ to access ease through Primal Alexander than through traditional ordering/directing.
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2. How has Primal Alexander™ affected
the way you work on yourself?
A Far More Subtle Way… Read More
PrimalAlexander™ has changed how I work on myself in that I had – ironically – got into endgaining habits with my own Inhibition and Direction. I think I had got into a habit of trying to ‘ram’ the primary directions rather than engage with the nervous system in a far more subtle, indirect (sometimes infuriatingly elusive – good old endgaining!) and effective way.
A Clearer Way of Observing… Read More
I feel like I have found a new way in to “staying with myself” and my awareness both as a teacher, an actor and mover. It has given me a much clearer way of observing myself.
Listen… Read More
It gives me a good structured way of working on myself and to listen to the respond of my nervous system.
A Relaxed Attentive State Read More
I love most the fact that I do not have to follow a body map! PrimalAlexander™ puts me in a relaxed, attentive state where I am looking forward to receiving feedback from all sorts of places rather than commanding my neck to be free for my head to… I observed some time ago that I was “helping” my neck to be free but I didn´t know what to do about that.
Kindness Read More
It’s been very helpful because I can feel the kindness in the Etudes and I can feel the self care when I do them. It’s allowed me to be more patient with myself and not hard on myself in general.
So Much Benefit Read More
I find it easier to practice the Etudes than I did more general AT work especially semi-supine because I am so clear about what I need to do and because I get so much benefit from them
Simpler Read More
It has made it simpler. PA is the scaffolding (your good word) from which I can easily direct my attention back to what just happened. It is consistent and simple to do.
Questions Over Directions Read More
Questioning and experimenting, exploring has replaced ordering and traditional AT directing. I love the etudes – offering surprises every time.
Practice Read More
I treat it more as I would practicing an instrument. Incremental progress each day, specific things to work on.
Light-Hearted Read More
I love love love that in Primal Alexander
“Direction” is actually a question! My work with myself is more light-hearted, kind and open-ended.
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3. What Changes Have Your Students Noticed?
TheCyCle™ Read More
They’re all doing the CyCle every day – they’re noticing their breathing changing, their backs widening and ‘tingling’ through their necks and spines. One student who’d had a stroke reported that she found when reaching into a high cupboard she was doing Taj Mahal. Another that Big Ben had improved her balance. Another student said she had begun to see the flowers and trees when she took the dog for a walk.
Singing Read More
A student new to the AT – when doing WEDISABE: lengthening and a new uprightness – puts more awareness on daily activities with use of arms – easier walking the dog – a singing teacher: using learned techniques like WEDISABE on own students with remarkable success student familiar with AT work – found lots of unknown places with unnecessary tension – puts more awareness on daily activities with use of arms – calmer and more relaxed
Improved Walking Read More
The aim of the two with no A.T. experience was to improve there walking. Using your methods has made them more sensitive to their habitual habits when walking. It has given them the ability to realise that rather than trying to change to another way of walking, if they don’t concentrate on the discomfort but look for ease instead, it affects the “whole” and improves their gait and in their words “makes them more relaxed” when walking with less pain.
Notice More Things About Themselves Read More
Find themselves using it during the day and during moments of anxiety. Beginning to notice things about themselves they never did before. A sense of calmness.
Lighter Read More
The ones who have been practicing say they are feeling lighter and easier in their activities. Their frame of mind feels better. They are using less effort. They have more energy. They have clearer boundaries in their life. A connection to their body in a new way. Feeling like they have choices.
Clarity of Tought Read More
Increased sensitivity. Ability to help themselves. A more complete sense of themselves reduced tension. Wider attention. Clarity of thought when under pressure.
Tools To Experiment Read More
That they can observe themselves and be more kind to themselves. They have tools to experiment and grow that are all their own. Many have said how good they feel and as though they are awash with ease.
Thinking About Ease Read More
They have reported finding a huge difference between thinking about tension vs. ease, and they find this concept easy to incorporate into their lives.
More Stamina Read More
Less neurological disruption in people who have those disorders, greater calm, more creativity, less pain or no pain from repetitive stress injuries, more physical stamina to play, sing, and practice
Inspiring Read More
More focus , happier , more freedom , clearer thinking , pain lifting , inspiring
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4. In what way has Primal Alexander added to
your understanding of Alexander’s discoveries?
The Freedom of Choice That Emerges Read More
The essential business of non interference. The freedom of choice that emerges from directing attention as opposed to “doing” directions. The Glimpses of experience of the resistance caused by habit dropping away to release movement… The renewal of each zero/moment being a new event rather than a sustained “something“
Clear Tools Read More
To have clear clear tools to work with oneself in true experimental ways, which are fascinating and ever so interesting.
A Step in The Right Direction Read More
In a way, Primal Alexander has really saved me as an AT teacher. Primal Alexander brought me so much closer to FM’s process.He connected visual perceptions with kinesthetic ones over many years. He did not receive a series of hands on lessons and then try and recreate what someone else helped him feel. All that to say I think Primal Alexander is a step in the right direction.
Just This One Question Read More
I learned more about the thinking process, the constructive thinking in a deeper way. It is so stripped down by asking just this one question. It makes it in a way easier to look more closely to what’s happening in oneself.
Experimenting Read More
It really brings home the idea of experimenting. It makes inhibition something we can practice “in movement” in a very practical and fun way. And the emphasis on questions keeps the awareness spinning rather than settling.
A More ‘humanly’ Way… Read More
In theory nothing – in reality everything! Although I knew intellectually that AT is not about posture, I still thought and worked with mostly postural directives, support reflexes, bones, muscles, fascia, tendons, a human sized skeleton in my room… During the course I was able to change my thinking to a more humanly way rather than jumping to conclusions on how to fix him/her or feeling helpless when no immediate “cure” comes up in my head!
More Connected Read More
Primal Alexander is closer to the experimental approach that FM used, so I somehow feel more connected to FM himself when I work this way. 1 response
I now have a much more accessible way of working with myself, and helping my students to work with themselves.
The Powerful Simplicity of It… Read More
It has brought back the sense of adventure and curiosity, the questioning – allowing the nervous system to do what it has to do – it’s always to do with the whole ‘self’. This open-ended question. The powerful simplicity of it.
The Missing Piece Read More
The missing piece for me was the capability to generate ease simply and reliably with a thought.
Primary Control Read More
I’m finding out just how primary Primary Control REALLY is.
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5. What Has Surprised You The
Most About The Course
Expansion Read More
How this regular, systematic training of my conscious thinking isn’t limiting – instead it provides a framework from where expansion of conscious thinking is enabled.
Hidden Treasure Read More
The sheer magnitude of transformation the course had on me and the hidden treasures of your simple movement exercises!!!
Different Hands Read More
I’ve noticed just this week that my hands feel completely different. I sometimes idly practise TheCycle part 2 when I’m sitting watching telly and I think this has had a profound effect without me realising!
Sharpened Perceptions Read More
I did not expect my visual perceptions to sharpen as they did. I didn’t really try that hard for my perceptions to shift, they just did because we were focusing on that in the class.
More Powerful & Empowering Read More
How truly effective this approach is – and yet it’s so simple. I think it is in many ways more powerful and empowering than ‘classical’ teaching.
Truly Communicate Read More
That the coaching Club is so much more than learning to teach online; that you can truly communicate with and sense another’s presence online.
No Mapping Read More
That I did not have to address body mapping in myself or others to discover more space and ease.
Classical + Read More
That it has a lot of positive effects on my normal classical teaching
Improved Read More
How much I improved as a teacher over the course of three months.
YAY! Read More
Same classic principles – just ‘working’ or receiving from a different place inside!
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6. What, if anything, do you think Primal Alexander adds to the
lexicon of Alexander Technique teaching in general?
Responsibility Read More
I´d say it IS THE WAY to teach AT. It puts the responsibility directly where it belongs: on the student.
How To Look After Yourself Read More
I think it’s a fantastic tool for teaching people how to look after themselves without relying on a teacher’s hands ‘fixing them’, as mentioned above. As the crux of AT is self/Self discovery, PA really enables people to THINK for themselves.
The Etudes Read More
For me Primal Alexander has set AT Apart from other bodywork mindful practices like yoga precisely because of the founding of these ‘etudes’
Exploring Alexander’s Principles Read More
The notion that students can begin immediately to explore Alexander’s Principles and derive benefit from them that is clear, simple and within their capability.
Simpler Read More
I think it’s a simpler and more experimental approach and gives the student more independence from the teacher without sacrificing the essence of the work.
Playful Read More
It takes it out of the realm of right and wrong. It’s more fun to teach, freer, lighter, playful, curious, wonder.
The Use of The Self Read More
Primal Alexander gives a clear and specific way of experiencing and practicing the process that FM Alexander describes in The Use of the Self, namely, how to pause in the face of a stimulus, direct myself, and move with constructive thinking.
The Origins of A.T. Read More
It takes you back to the origins of AT – and brings you into a deeper consciousness.
Legitimate Read More
It offers a completely legitimate and in depth way to explore the work.
Ingenious Read More
An ingenious take on the Technique.
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7. If you were writing an “Amazon style” review of the
course, how many stars (out of 5) would you
give it and what might you say about it?
Toolkit Read More
5 Stars… A fantastic course – teaching the Primal Alexander approach to the Alexander Technique and offering a toolkit of skills. Inspiring and challenging – this course meets all expectations.
Fundamental Read More
5 stars…I would highly recommend this course to any teacher wishing to improve and enrich their Use/teaching using the fundamental principles that FM used when evolving the Alexander Technique.
Trusted The Process Read More
5 Stars…Mio was very dedicated in teaching this work and that kept me going. I trusted the process because he was credible in the way he presented the material and responded to the questions of us students. I really appreciated his presence and how he guided us in the process.
User Friendly Read More
5 Stars…This course has a very well packed array of tools for teaching and a user friendly collection of practical applications. … experiential for both teacher and student. Being experimental it is a win win environment in which to study and learn.
Useful Read More
5 Stars…One of the most useful courses I have done in the last many years and I am doing quite regular training ..
Upside Down Read More
5 stars…Your mind will go upside down as it is a very different Alexander Technique approach but totally worth it! I was wondering how to teach the Alexander Technique in a more simple way and I found the way! Simple and very effective method. Highly recommended!
Unbelievable Read More
5 stars…This approach must be experienced to be believed.
Online & Off Read More
5 Stars…It is remarkable how much Mio’s etudes and questions demystify the process of Alexander’s awareness and inhibition in movement and activity. It is an incredible course if you are teaching online but also will add so much to your understanding that your, skills live and hands-on, will multiply.
A New Consciousness Read More
5 Stars…Excellent class. Renewed my awareness of my AT learning of the past. Gave me “fresh” eyes for noticing myself. I find myself moving through my day with a new consciousness.
Wake Up Read More
5 stars…Wake up your inner curiosity to effect change ! ( I think I might like to keep this one for myself, Mio!)
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The Power of
Experimentation
The Alexander Technique is a problem solving technique. If Alexander had never lost his voice none of us would be doing what we’re doing.
is empowerment. When FM began his journey he was powerless over his habits. His deep desire for change combined with his persistence, patience and intelligence lead to his amazing discoveries. The Teacher’s 12
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colleagues are reacting to this teaching that I could do this little section. I sent out a survey after
the last level I coaching club with a whole bunch of questions so here are some of the questions
I asked in the answers that the people who took the course gave.
Use this as the next big heading after the lead. DO YOU REMEMBER HOW IT FELT… When
you first realized that the Alexander technique… For me it happened really early, after my first
lesson with Frank Jones, in fact. I floated back to my dorm room sat down in my drums started
to play and for the first time in my life I SOUNDED LIKE A REALLY GOOD DRUMMER!
Now mind you, I had tried just about everything to be able to use play the drums (or really any
instrument) with the lightness and power and expressiveness that all good musicians can
muster. THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT AT LEAST FOUR A FEW MINUTES… I COULD
DO THAT!!!
What it was like when you first realize that the Alexander technique had tremendous potential.
IF YOU TOOK WHAT ALEXANDER DISCOVERED AND LEFT THE HANDS-ON PART OF IT
OUT WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE TO IMPROVE SOMEONE ELSE’S USE WITH JUST THE
IDEAS THEMSELVES THE WAY THAT ALEXANDER DID.
ALEXANDER WAS NOT COMPLETELY SATISFIED WITH HIS ABILITY TO CONVEY THE
PRINCIPLES AND MOTIVATE PEOPLE TO EXPERIMENT FOR THEMSELVES.
WE LIVE IN A VERY DIFFERENT TIME NOW. WE’VE COME TO REALIZE THE VALUE OF
THE GROUP LEARNING EXPERIENCE WITH REGARD TO ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE.
WE HAVE VIDEO TECHNOLOGY WHICH EASILY ALLOWS PEOPLE TO DO IT ALEXANDER
DID WITH HIS MIRRORS BUT IN A MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE WAY. Our MIRRORS NOW
REMEMBER.
Can you imagine Alexander today. He would have a YouTube channel Facebook ads the works.
PITCH THE ÉTUDES
EXCEPTIONAL SCIENCE ANDRE WALDMAN MEETING WITH THE ACADEMY IS LIKE ME
ON THE CLASSES THEY DISLIKE YOU HAD BEEN OFF OF EVERY MAJOR DIVORCE
DEFENSE SHOULD FUNDING LIMA NINE TIME USUAL MAYBE GOD WILL BE NO GREAT
THING BE ASSIGNED TO SOMEONE WHILE
DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME YOU REALLY GOT EXCITED ABOUT THE
POSSIBILITIES THAT THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE OPENED UP FOR YOU? I
REMEMBER HEARING FRANK PIERCE JONES… I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I READ
EVOLUTION OF THE TECHNIQUE
SUSPECTING THAT THERE WAS MORE TO THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE THEN WHAT’S
YOU LEARNED IN A SHORT THREE-YEAR TRAINING.
SUSPECTING THAT PERHAPS YOU HAVE DRIFTED A BIT FROM THE KIND OF THINKING
YOU WERE ABLE TO DO IN THE CONTEXT of a training with other people.
WELL YOU’RE RIGHT IT’S HARD TO GO IT ALONE WITH ANYTHING BUT ESPECIALLY
WITH WORK THIS____.
IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT. IN A CERTAIN SENSE IT’S ALEXANDER’S FAULT BECAUSE IN A
VERY REAL WAY HE DID NOT STICK TO PRINCIPLE. AS SOON AS HE STARTED
TEACHING WITH HIS HANDS HE VIOLATED SOME OF HIS MOST BASIC RULES.
FOR ALL OF HIS GENIUS AS AN INVENTOR AND A PRACTITIONER HE DID NOT HAVE
THE TEMPERAMENT NECESSARY TO BE A TRULY GREAT TEACHER. HE SEEMED NOT
TO HAVE THE TEMPERAMENT…
SHOULD I PUT A SHORT VIDEO TEACHING THE CYCLE AND ASK PEOPLE TO DO IT AS
THEY ARE CONSIDERING TAKING THE COURSE?
Add agitation to my headline so that I can have a PAS SITUATION.
PRIMAL ALEXANDER GETS RIGHT BACK TO THE ORIGINAL ROOTS of Alexander’s
AMAZING WORK:
SELF OBSERVATION AND EXPERIMENTATION
STUDENT ZERO was Alexander
I was that student
you probably were that student
in all the students who come to you in a very real sense are also that student.
He tried solving the problem himself the best way he knew how. When that didn’t work he went
to specialists. When the specialist could he provide him with a completely satisfactory solution.
With just a tiny crack of insight and a deep desire to solve this problem he set out to figure out
why he lost his voice when reciting but not when to speak. He came to the conclusion that it was
something that he had to be doing differently and he sought to figure out what that difference
was.
This was the experimental process that 10 burgeoning called…
That process was what allowed Alexander to overcome the obstacle. But he abandoned
teaching that process because he found that for the most part his students weren’t willing to
travel down that long road despite the fact that they knew that there was a pot of gold at the end
of that long rainbow. Something Alexander didn’t know and didn’t need to know apparently in
order to do the work they did.
Hands-on work was an afterthought and a shortcut ultimately was less demanding for students
then the exploratory work that Alexander tried to convince them to do.
In order for online Alexander teaching to be effective the following four things need to be in
place:
IF YOU CAN DO WHAT I DO…
HOW IT WORKS
THE WAY IT WORKS
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT TO LEARN
WHAT YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD TO LEARNING
INVESTMENT
TRANSFORMATION’S
Subheading after: the modern version of an old way of working
THE “ORIGINAL” ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
the means whereby Alexander both discovered and taught the Alexander technique was not
hands-on.
The things that are keeping us all safe have a very things that are making it really tough for
Many of us us as Alexander teachers to make a living
First confession
second confession etc.
THE GLOBAL HEALTH CRISIS WE FIND OURSELVES IN IS FORCING EVERYONE TO
THINK DIFFERENTLY. THE THINGS WE’RE DOING TO KEEP SAFE ARE THE VERY
THINGS MAKING IT REALLY TOUGH FOR MANY OF US AS ALEXANDER TEACHERS TO
PAY OUR BILLS. To make ends meet.
Forcing everyone to think way outside the box
Imagine having an insurance policy against any future event that might make in person teaching
and possible PLUS WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE IF THERE WAS A WAY TO REACH OUT TO
STUDENTS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD THAT WOULD ALSO DEEPEN YOUR
UNDERSTANDING OF ALEXANDER’S DISCOVERIES
HI I’M NEIL ON AN ALEXANDER TEACHER AND TRAINER WHO TRAINED WITH
MARJORIE BARSTOW AND FRANK PIERCE JONES FROM 1972 TO 1993 AND I HAVE A
CONFESSION TO MAKE: FOR LONG TIME I DIDN’T THINK IT WAS POSSIBLE TO TEACH
THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE WITHOUT HANDS-ON THAT WOULD BE AS EFFECTIVE AS
TEACHING AT WITH HANDS-ON.
It’s a lot more than just working with verbal directions and presence alone. There’s a spooky
science of empathy and observation that will make you so much more sensitive to the thinking
patterns and movement habits of your students and yourself you see trust more than those who
are applicable to the wrong person to talk to you in your life without insurance and you never go
to Dr. Sutton the thing is it’s you do the best you can there’s no way to when you can’t when you
can’t know what’s the best choice because you don’t know what’s gonna happen you just have
to make you know an educated guess and assume that it’s going to be only really bothers its
sign up now for eligibility work so that
Use: I have a confession to make
as a subject heading at the very beginning of the page. The subject heading could be that and
in the body text it could be I MUST ADMIT…
The thing I’m about to admit is a statement that with primal Alexander you can teach lessons
that are not only as good as hands-on lessons but even better.
“I MUST ADMIT, THAT YEARS AGO WHEN I FIRST STARTED FOOLING AROUND with
hands-free teaching I didn’t know what I was doing and I REALLY WASN’T TOO IMPRESSED
WITH THE RESULTS.
I was basically a hands-on teacher who had a good understanding of Alexander’s discoveries
but had never taught a lesson without hands-on and I was basically trying to force what I
already knew into a brand-new medium with its limitations.
BUT I FOOLED AROUND WITH IT FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS ANYWAY MOSTLY
BECAUSE EVERY SO OFTEN I WOULD MEET STUDENT AT ONE OF THE WORKSHOPS I
WAS TEACHING WHO AFTER THE WORKSHOP WANTED TO CONTINUE WORKING WITH
ME. ALTHOUGH THE RESULTS SHOWED PROMISE…
THEN IN 2013…
After the success of the original coaching club class. After the success of volume 1 the coaching
club classes.
Dear friends,
use a short enthusiastic testimonial at the top of the email before the body of the email.
Subject line:
THIS is really helping Alexander teachers
August 11 is the start date for the second edition of the coaching club level I. If you are already
familiar with my work and were planning to take the next course please use the link below to
receive a special 15% “I’ve been waiting for this course” discount.
On limiting the space in the class this time.
THERE ARE A LIMITED NUMBER OF THESE 15% DISCOUNTs
A pre-release discount. For certain people
this is a pre-promotion discount
I don’t know about you, but I find marketing very tough. There are some things about it that are
kind of fun, but without fail things always take me twice as long as I expect.
August 11 is the start date for my next offering.
Marketing is tough. There are aspects of it but a kind of fun, but it always takes me twice as long
as I expect. This time is no exception.
IF YOU STUDIED WITH ME BEFORE
IF YOU TOOK THE FREE WORKSHOP IN MARCH
IF YOU WERE A REGULAR ATTENDEE OF THE CYCLE STUDY CIRCLE
IF YOU KNOW ABOUT PRIMAL ALEXANDER FROM A FRIEND OR COLLEAGUE WHO’S
BEEN WORKING WITH ME.
This is the last introductory course to be offered until sometime in 2021 and space is limited.
Both the original level coaching club I class and the level II class have been a huge success.
Hi, I Neil Morales I’m an Alexander teacher who trained alongside Bill and Barbara carnival
Bruce Bergman Martha Hansen Jeremy chance and all the countless others made the
pilgrimage every summer how to Marjorie Barstow’s summer workshop in the 70s 80s and 90s. I
was also lucky enough to have Dr. Frank Pierce Jones as my first Alexander teacher. For the
past 15 years I have been perfecting a new approach to teaching the Alexander technique. It’s a
hands-free approach called primal Alexander
What this is not. This is not an Alexander teacher with little experience online struggling to
adapt…
I recently did a survey of the last group of teachers to take this introductory course. Here are
some of the questions I asked them and their answers.
I COULD HAVE TO DIFFERENT question and answer sections. ONE COULD BE A REGULAR
FAQ. THE OTHER COULD BE A Q&A USING THE ABOVE SENTENCE AS AN
INTRODUCTION: I recently did the survey of the last group of teachers to take this course hear
some of the questions in some of their answers.
THIS IS AN ADVANCE TEACHER TRAINING BUILT FROM THE GROUND UP
SPECIFICALLY TO ADDRESS THE POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS OF HANDS-FREE
ONLINE TEACHING.
I HAVE LOGGED MORE THAN 3000 TEACHING AND TRAINING HOURS DEVELOPING
THIS SYSTEM
I probably have more online teacher training experience then all of the other online teachers
combine.
THIS IS A REAL TRAINING SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO TEACH YOU HOW TO BE JUST
AS EFFECTIVE TEACHING ONLINE AS YOU ARE HANDS-ON.
I COULD CREATE A PIECE OF CONTENT AS AN EXCUSE TO SEND AN EMAIL TO THE
WHOLE LIST SAYING: ALL RIGHT KNOW THAT YOU’RE INTERESTED IN TAKING THE
NEXT INTRO COURSE USE THIS LINK!
As a hands-on teacher you weren’t really taught how to totally empower the student. Primal
Alexander is built from the ground up with regard to empowerment. It starts with you becoming
empowered differently in your own learning. You have to learn to do what Alexander did. I
SHOULD USE THE QUOTE: YOU CAN DO WHAT I DID…
As a hands-on teacher you have not really learned primal Alexander is a Robust
teachingmethod inspired and informed by the original experimentation Alexander did to solve
his vocal problems.
It handles all of the Alexander objectives Loblaw blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
This of course makes it the perfect solution. For the situation that Alexander teachers are finding
themselves in.p
Primal Alexander is much more than just to stand in your hands-on teaching during this crisis
primal Alexander is more than just a “substitute teaching ” to be abandoned once things get
back to normal.
I’VE BEEN TEACHING FOR OVER 40 YEARS THE LAST 10 OF WHICH I’VE SPENT
FASCINATED WITH THE POSSIBILITIES OF HANDS-FREE TEACHING. I HAVE CREATED A
COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM WHICH LEVERAGES THE GENIUS OF ALEXANDER’S
DISCOVERIES but presents it IN A MUCH MORE EASILY ACCESSIBLE AND USABLE WAY.
TO DATE I HAVE SPENT OVER 3000 TEACHING HOURS REFINING MY TECHNIQUES AND
THE RESULTS OF THAT RESEARCH IS ALL IN THIS LATEST OFFERING FOR
ALEXANDER TEACHERS WHO MORE THAN JUST WANTING TO DURING THE COVERT
CRISIS WANT TO DEEPEN THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW TO BETTER APPLY
ALEXANDER’S INCREDIBLE DISCOVERIES FOR THE SAKE OF THEIR OWN USE AND
THAT OF THEIR STUDENTS.
SO COME JOIN US NEXT MONTH I GUARANTEE THAT IT WILL BE A UNIQUELY
VALUABLE EXPERIENCE THAT JUST MIGHT CHANGE YOUR MIND ABOUT ONLINE
TEACHING.
I’VE BEEN TEACHING
I began to wonder what with the Alexander technique look like if Alexander had never started
using his hands?
What skills was Alexander forced to acquire in order to make the discoveries he ended up
making.
… Which could make it the “method of the moment” given challenging circumstances we find
ourselves in right now but it’s so much more than just that
Primal Alexander is a faithful and authentic reimagining of the Alexander technique as if
Alexander had never chosen to start doing hands-on.
Teachers are finding out that even when working with students who have had hands-on lessons
just using the Alexander verbiage is not enough to break through their habitual use. Primal
Alexander is based on an entirely different paradigm…
PERHAPS RIGHT AFTER I FLASH SOME AUTHORITY OF HOW LONG I BEEN TEACHING
AND WHO I STUDIED WITH I SHOULD TALK ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF LEARNING HOW
TO TEACH HANDS-FREE.
Here’s some the things you learn in this course…
Or…
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET FROM THIS COURSE…
Here’s how it works…
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET…
HERE’S HOW IT WORKS…
HERE’S WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING…
HERE’S WHAT IT COSTS…
NEXT I SHOULD TALK ABOUT “AS GREAT AS THAT MAY BE THE REAL VALUE OF
PRIMAL ALEXANDER IS WHAT IT WILL DO FOR YOU AS THE TEACHER AND HOW IT
WILL AFFECT YOUR TEACHING IN GENERAL
THAT SHOULD BE FOLLOWED BY THOSE TESTIMONIALS ABOUT HOW
it changed them
On August 4 I am going to be starting a new group for Alexander teachers interested in being
able to teach their students great Alexander lessons even in the most challenging of times
I’m going to be launching a brand-new group for teachers interested in beginning a journey
towards more flexibility and unlimited reach for their Alexander practice. TEACH A-T ONLINE is
a course designed…
I should have a section on how their students are responding to the online teaching. Again using
quotes
From very early on in my studies, I was fascinated by…
I NEED TO START WITH THE HANDS-FREE BENEFIT DURING THE COVID TIMES BUT
VERY QUICKLY TRANSITION TO WHAT THIS APPROACH TO TEACHING WILL DO FOR
THE TEACHERS OWN USE.
It might be hard for you to imagine how you could convey without hand the information
necessary for student to break the happens stop and gaining and conquer faulty sensory
appreciation. After all Alexander was only able to achieve that after many many years of
struggling studying himself. What I have stumbled upon is…
Over the past 15 years my original fascination with the fact that Alexander solve his problems
and created the Alexander technique without hands-on…
I should talk about the particulars of the things that I’ve devised for students.
Then I need to talk about what the teachers have to be able to do in order to present them in
that way.
And then I have to talk about how the teachers learning to do that they have to improve their
own use. PERHAPS NOT EXACTLY IN THAT ORDER.
For the past decade, I have been refining a unique approach to teaching the Alexander
technique
It is a simple systematic approach to teaching Alexander’s discoveries inspired and informed by
“evolution of a technique” from the use of the self.
I was always fascinated by the kind of experimentation Alexander did to solve his vocal
problems and make his seminal discoveries.
The fact that he was able to do so just by experimenting with his thinking fascinated me.
Furthermore, that he was able to do it without having received the kind of hands-on guidance
that usually comes to mind when we think of Alexander teaching was a revelation to me.
An easy to learn, powerful but simple system.
Reframing many of the basic concepts that you have learned about Alexander teaching
The focus upon work on yourself
A powerful, but simple and easy to learn system that will
I REALLY LIKE THE IDEA OF SPRINKLING TESTIMONIALS THROUGHOUT the page.
I have dedicated…
It takes time to translate your hands-on in person teaching practice a viable alternative online.
I can save you time and guesswork by teaching you the techniques that have proven effective
over the course of the more than 3000 hours ive logged teaching the Alexander Technique
online since 2013.
developing Over 3000 teaching and training hours online during the past eight years.
Helping you get started
Helping you get your practice off the ground
Helping you get your feet wet
For over 40 years since. You weren’t taught how to empower the student but
NOT ONLY CAN YOU REACH PEOPLE ALL OF THE WORLD BUT YOU CAN TEACH BIG
GROUPS OF THEM EFFECTIVELY AT THE SAME TIME. IN MARKETING TERMS THIS
ENABLES AN ALEXANDER TEACHER TO SCALE THEIR BUSINESS AND NOT BE
TRAPPED IN A SITUATION WHERE YOUR TRADING HOURS FOR DOLLARS.
But there are two keys to making this work first is that you have to provide your students with
something that they really value. In the only way for that to happen is for you to value it yourself
in the moment when your teaching. Everybody would like to be able to do this by themselves.
It’s counterintuitive in some ways to think that if the student was independent that they would
want to work with you less because they could do by themselves. Nothing could be further from
the truth because part of the function of group teaching is the group itself. In the 60s Marjorie
Barstow found herself teaching a large group of people and found that working with individuals
and talking about the process and enable her to teach more effectively to reach more people
with a deeper kind of learning.
ThePowerOfEase
ThePowerOfExperimentation
ThePowerOfPractice
ThePowerOfCommunity
I hope this has given you a good idea of what you’ll be getting by taking this course…I’ve been researching hands-free teaching for over 20 years now and teaching online full time since 2013. There’s tremendous potential here pedagogically and from a marketing standpoint. As much as I think that this course will help you inso many aspects of your teaching beyond just keeping afloat during this crisis…IT IS JUST THE BEGINNING.
I’m dedicated to further developing online teaching,
Teaching Online Handsfree Alexander Technique Teaching Full-Time for more than 7 years.
Not out of necessity but by choice and I will be here teaching people like you long after Covid 19 fades from the headlines.
P.A. is great but it’s just the beginning. I’m totally dedicated to making Alexander’s work accessible to the vast majority of people who desperately need it and have little or no idea that it even exists.
Some of the teachers who have suddenly become believers called this way of teaching pornography.
This is not just a way to teach until the pandemic is over.
Re-Evolution of a Technique!
Join this movement towards easier movement
Make a list of what they’re going to get like the teachers 12 and blueprint for a one on one lesson etc. I wrote those down somewhere but I don’t remember where.
Use this as the next big heading after the lead. DO YOU REMEMBER HOW IT FELT… When
you first realized that the Alexander technique… For me it happened really early, after my first
lesson with Frank Jones, in fact. I floated back to my dorm room sat down in my drums started
to play and for the first time in my life I SOUNDED LIKE A REALLY GOOD DRUMMER!
Shedding new light on classical concepts
In the conclusion I should definitely put the five things that the cult master writer talks about
SUSPECTING THAT THERE WAS MORE TO THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE THEN WHAT’S
YOU LEARNED IN A SHORT THREE-YEAR TRAINING.
SUSPECTING THAT PERHAPS YOU HAVE DRIFTED A BIT FROM THE KIND OF THINKING
YOU WERE ABLE TO DO IN THE CONTEXT of a training with other people.
WELL YOU’RE RIGHT IT’S HARD TO GO IT ALONE WITH ANYTHING BUT ESPECIALLY
WITH WORK THIS___
IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT. IN A CERTAIN SENSE IT’S ALEXANDER’S FAULT BECAUSE IN A
VERY REAL WAY HE DID NOT STICK TO PRINCIPLE. AS SOON AS HE STARTED
TEACHING WITH HIS HANDS HE VIOLATED SOME OF HIS MOST BASIC RULES.
FOR ALL OF HIS GENIUS AS AN INVENTOR AND A PRACTITIONER HE DID NOT HAVE
THE TEMPERAMENT NECESSARY TO BE A TRULY GREAT TEACHER. HE SEEMED NOT
TO HAVE THE TEMPERAMENT…
SHOULD I PUT A SHORT VIDEO TEACHING THE CYCLE AND ASK PEOPLE TO DO IT AS
THEY ARE CONSIDERING TAKING THE COURSE?
Add agitation to my headline so that I can have a PAS SITUATION.
PRIMAL ALEXANDER GETS RIGHT BACK TO THE ORIGINAL ROOTS of Alexander’s
AMAZING WORK:
SELF OBSERVATION AN
have you ever suspected that and gaining has slipped its way into your work?
Talk about the transformation in the conclusion.
Start the conclusion with I have a confession to make.
My confession could be a damning assessment of my competitors. When I first started teaching without hands-on I must admit was very good. Basically, I was trying to teach without my hands without having a real substitute for what the hands do. But it did for me as it made me really go deeply into Alexander’s writings and my own experiences. To really find the fundamental principles that makes Alexander’s works special.
I MUST ADMIT, THAT YEARS AGO WHEN I FIRST STARTED FOOLING AROUND with
hands-free teaching I didn’t know what I was doing and I REALLY WASN’T TOO IMPRESSED
WITH THE RESULTS.
I was basically a hands-on teacher who had a good understanding of Alexander’s discoveries
but had never taught a lesson without hands-on and I was basically trying to force what I
already knew into a brand-new medium with its limitations.
BUT I FOOLED AROUND WITH IT FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS ANYWAY MOSTLY
BECAUSE EVERY SO OFTEN I WOULD MEET STUDENT AT ONE OF THE WORKSHOPS I
WAS TEACHING WHO AFTER THE WORKSHOP WANTED TO CONTINUE WORKING WITH
ME. ALTHOUGH THE RESULTS SHOWED PROMIS
Dear friends,
use a short enthusiastic testimonial at the top of the email before the body of the email.
Subject line:
THIS is really helping Alexander teachers
August 11 is the start date for the second edition of the coaching club level I. If you are already
familiar with my work and were planning to take the next course please use the link below to
receive a special 15% “I’ve been waiting for this course” discount.
On limiting the space in the class this time.
THERE ARE A LIMITED NUMBER OF THESE 15% DISCOUNTs
A pre-release discount. For certain people
this is a pre-promotion discount
I don’t know about you, but I find marketing very tough. There are some things about it that are
kind of fun, but without fail things always take me twice as long as I expect.
August 11 is the start date for my next offerin
Marketing is tough. There are aspects of it but a kind of fun, but it always takes me twice as long
as I expect. This time is no exception.
IF YOU STUDIED WITH ME BEFORE
IF YOU TOOK THE FREE WORKSHOP IN MARCH
IF YOU WERE A REGULAR ATTENDEE OF THE CYCLE STUDY CIRCLE
IF YOU KNOW ABOUT PRIMAL ALEXANDER FROM A FRIEND OR COLLEAGUE WHO’S
BEEN WORKING WITH ME.
This is the last introductory course to be offered until sometime in 2021 and space is limited.
Both the original level coaching club I class and the level II class have been a huge succes
I Neil Morales I’m an Alexander teacher who trained alongside Bill and Barbara carnival
Bruce Bergman Martha Hansen Jeremy chance and all the countless others made the
pilgrimage every summer how to Marjorie Barstow’s summer workshop in the 70s 80s and 90s. I
was also lucky enough to have Dr. Frank Pierce Jones as my first Alexander teacher. For the
past 15 years I have been perfecting a new approach to teaching the Alexander technique. It’s a
hands-free approach called primal Alexande
IF YOU’D LIKE TO SAVE $100 SIGN UP FOR THE COURSE BEFORE THIS TIME RUNS OUT WITH THE COUPON CODE…
Check this out… As good as this course is it’s just the beginning. As good as I think this course is, it’s just the beginning