Who Else Wants

More Students?

(Group Teaching Hacks, Sharper Observation or Amazing Hands-On)

Hey…Mio Here!

If you’ve ever been frustrated as an Alexander Technique teacher/entrepreneur, I know just how you feel…I have truly been there!

Given the value of what we have to offer, people should be busting down doors to book lessons and then be absolutely delighted to spread the word to all their friends, family and co-workers.

Just imagine what that would be like…

TO BE IN DEMAND COMMENSURATE WITH OUR TRUE VALUE!!!

Now…

That might just seem like a pipe-dream, but lately, I’m actually starting to see it beginning to happen…

Here’s how…

For almost a decade now, my focus has been developing a completely functional, totally hands-free approach to teaching & learning the Alexander Technique.

I have always believed that since Alexander was able to do what he did without receiving hands-on, that we could do it too!…

AND…

That there just might be a way to learn what he learned without having to use mirrors and perhaps even without it taking so long.

After all, he proved it could be done and gifted us with his findings we just needed to find an alternate route to the same goal.

Well…I’m happy to say that my research is coming along nicely and in the last few years I’ve even had the chance to be train a few other Alexander teachers to teach HandFree as well!

But, even more exciting, my explorations have given rise to techniques & strategies that are proving to be of tremendous value to A.T. teachers across the board even those with little or no interest in distance teaching.

These simple yet powerful ways of working will enhance the hard-won teaching skills you already possess while providing you with new tools that will deepen your teaching and increase your effectiveness.

Starting next month I will begin sharing them in the first of a series advanced training opportunities for any Alexander teachers looking to expand their repertoire and extend their reach.

So…

If you’ve been feeling a bit stuck or you’re just up for checking out some new ways to boost your flexibility as a teacher and broaden your influence as an educator.

Please Come Join Us Next Month In…

The Club

The CoachingClub is a “Q&A” style masterclass for Alexander teachers who seek to refine their skills, add new tools to their repertoire or increase their ability to reach more students. TheClub is a recurring membership where members, depending on their plan, meet via Zoom either once, twice or three times per week.

The research I’ve been doing into the viability of a totally HandsFree approach to Alexander teaching has yielded some surprisingly powerful methods & strategies that have proven valuable to Alexander teachers of all stripes.

Informed & inspired by the “Evolution of a Technique” chapter in The Use of the Self, these ways of working harken back to the original methods Alexander created to solve his vocal problems and make his discoveries; methods that lead to our understanding exactly how the way we think affects the way we move.

Its Purpose

TheCoachingClub is super practical and all about problem solving. My purpose is to provide Alexander teachers with a place each week to gather online and together to approach and solve the real issues that members are facing day in & day out in their teaching practice.

I have been coaching and training Alexander teachers for over 35 years, and I draw upon that experience to create a challenging but collegial atmosphere that is both serious and light-hearted. Intense at times, but always supportive & accepting.

The Club is a community and a learning lab. A collaborative online space where Alexander teachers from all over the globe can compare notes, share questions and find answers together.

As the “Learner-In-Chief” I lead the charge, the magic is in the collaboration, the meeting of minds peer-to-peer. The knowledge shared in the Club and the feel of the experience itself just might stir memories in you of wonderful workshops you’ve attended over the years or the very best days of your teacher training.

New Tools And a New Kind of Direction

1. Primal Alexander™

Over the past decade, I’ve been developing an approach to applying Alexander’s discoveries and teaching the Technique that does not require hands-on kinesthetic guidance.

As a complete teaching system it’s called Primal Alexander™ & it’s a comprehensive set of techniques, skills, activities & explorations that I originally developed to meet the challenges of teaching beginning students online.

But…

In the last four years, what’s been especially satisfying for me has been seeing just how valuable this approach is proving to be for Alexander teachers, especially when it comes to their own skill refinement, group teaching, observation and proactive self-care.

2. “Questions as Direction” & A bit of homework

There are 2 things in particular that make this learning possible for both students and teachers. The first is an awareness process I call 3EasyQuestions™. Here’s basically how it works:

After inhibiting, in the gap between stimulus and response, instead of traditional orders or directing, you quickly assess these three things in sequence:

Where you’re currently noticing places of relative ease,
What effect noticing that ease is having on your general Use and finally…
How that general effect is changing as you begin to move.

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 do whatever you happen to be doing a lot more effectively.

3EasyQuestions™ is a new take on constructive conscious control that is so easy to learn it can be taught to a brand new student in a first lesson. In the hands of an experienced teacher, it becomes a potent self-healing tool that reveals and erodes even deep habit patterns that previously had been totally imperceptible.

3. The Études

The second key to the effectiveness of Primal Alexander™ are the Études: the
“lightweight” home study activities that students do for a few minutes every day. Their name and functionality is borrowed from classical music pedagogy. these When combined with 3EasyQuestions™ these little explorations…

Give students a structure to practice & experiment with their directing.
Keeps them engaged with their studies between lessons.
Empowers them in their own learning.
Provides a way of facilitating the Primary Control on their own.
Proves to them that they can improve their own Use whenever they want.
Teaches Inhibition, Non-doing and Directing quickly.
Improves their sensory appreciation.
Develops the awareness needed to apply the Technique in any activity.

In my classes I speak a lot about a concept I call “The Primary Concern” which poses the question:

“What’s happening to me as I ____?”

(Where the activity you’re engaged in goes in the blank)

To me, if you can answer that question when the chips are down then you are truly “thinking in activity”. It’s the key to understanding how the “end” you’re trying to gain is affecting your present & future ability to function ( the “means whereby”).

Asking that question puts the “end” & the “means whereby” side by side so that you can see them both at the same time. That way, when your obsession with getting a particular result interferes with the process, you become aware of it and can make a change.

In a sense, that’s the big picture of how the Études function in Primal Alexander™: one step at a time they steadily teach you how to really “think in activity”.

“Anyone can do what I do,
if they will do what I did.”

4. Re: Evolution of a Technique

I remember reading that quote for the first time as young, slightly fanatical Alexander enthusiast and feeling like Alexander tossing out a challenge…challenging me to buckle down and apply what he had discovered with more zeal.

Did I aspire to someday being able to do what Alexander could do? Yes, I did! Was I willing to sit in front of mirrors for years and years to achieve what he did…Apparently not, because I never did.

However, as the years went by, I came to realize that spending all that time in front of the mirrors was not what Alexander did as much as it was how he did what he did…What he actually learned how to do in front of those mirrors was to…

Experiment on himself!

For me, the key to getting the most out of Alexander’s amazing discoveries is to follow him down the road of self-experimentation. We have a huge advantage over Alexander. Because as a result of his brilliant efforts we know without a doubt, that there truly is gold at the end of that experimentation rainbow.

Primal Alexander™ is a step by step approach to improving your Use by learning how to use movement to experiment on yourself. 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.

It’s a self-healing process that uses Inhibition & observation to create a gap between stimulus and response that allows our native movement intelligence to preempt our habitual way of moving while it reinforces the pathways that lead to better Use now and in the future.

For the Alexander student, this flattens the learning curve, empowers them in their healing process & keeps them studying longer. It gives to the Alexander teacher a simpler means whereby to “stick to principle” more fully and more often so that you can more deeply enjoy and share this wonderful work with the world.

Okay…Okay…Okay!
But….

What Can I Look Forward To?

Choose 1, 2 or 3
classes/week

Saturday 12PM
Tuesday 5PM -Thursday 3PM
Times are Eastern U.S. Timezone

Classes are 90 Minutes

Each class begins with the études. The balance of the class is a Q&A
format master class

Every Class is Recorded

Recordings are available same
day and can be accessed for
1 month after the class

Members Only
Facebook Group

Very active for posting questions,
assignments and getting
my video feedback

Daily Étude
Broadcast

Once a day I’ll do our études
live on Facebook & talk about
their form and function

MidWeek
Live Private Talk

Every Wednesday at 4 PM Pacific
I share my thoughts about
recent classes

Thanks…
But would it kill you to be
just a tad more specific!

Some of What

Has to Offer

New Teaching Tools

3EasyQuestions plus an Étude series designed to increase flexibility & sensitivity will
speed your progress.

Improved Hands-On

3EasyQuestions plus an Étude series designed to increase flexibility & sensitivity will
speed your progress.

Direction Distilled

3EasyQuestions plus an Étude series designed to increase flexibility & sensitivity will
speed your progress.