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Alexander Technique
 5-Week Course
 with Celio da Silveira

Improve your Yoga practice. Coordination, focus and balance: simple ways to reorganize your movement patterns. The Alexander Technique is a proven, practical method of improving health through conscious, positive choices. Our habitual patterns cause unnecessary effort and tension in everything we do.

Course Objective - Apply the principles of the Alexander Technique to give a sense of the basic coordination of mind and body, as applied to our movement. The goal is to avoid injury and bring ease, efficiency and comfort to the practice of yoga and any other movement.

Course Format: Presentation of theory, hands-on work with each student, active relaxation, questions.

 

"Change involves carrying out an activity against the habit of life."
F. M. ALEXANDER (1869-1955)

Celio da Silveira: Certified Teacher, American Society for the Alexander Technique; Graduate of ATI-LA (Alexander Training Institute of Los Angeles).

Celio discovered the Alexander Technique in Brazil in 1987. Eighteen years of practice in the art of Judo was apt preparation, focused on the refinement of movement patterns and maintaining attention to 'inner space'. The Technique enriched his study of classical and modern dance, as well as yoga, and gave power to his singing voice and guitar fingering. He sees this acute study of human development and intuition as a life-long journey peeling back layers of perception which grows in subtlety with each new student. Celio has a private practice in West Los Angeles. www.alexandertechniquelosangeles.com

Course Starting Date:
Mondays 7:00-8:30pm
March 2
 Course Cost: - Members $65, Non-members $75.
See here for registration details.
Topics to be covered in each session:

WEEK1

  •  Introduction to the Alexander Technique and it principles

  •  Awareness - understanding the basic functioning of the body and how movement starts

  •  Recognizing our personal habits of moving

  •  The importance of integrating the neck, head and back with the limbs and joints

  •  Simple movements like sitting, standing and walking

  •  Relating all of this to Yoga

WEEK 2

  • Understanding our balance and coordination in movement by applying the principles of the Technique

  • Work with pausing before an action (or Alexander’s term “Inhibition”)

  • The “end-gaining” process that prevents us from absorbing the best of our Yoga practice

  • The “means whereby” we can move with grace and ease

WEEK 3

  • Working with breath coordination (Alexander “whispered ah”)

  • How the breath can interfere with our balance and coordination

  • How to direct our energy and reorganize the mind and body patterns

WEEK 4

  • Applying the basic principles to a specific Yoga asana

  • A closer look at how we can use the Technique in our Yoga practice

WEEK 5

  • Review the principles: Awareness, Inhibition and Directions

  • Practical work with asanas—with less effort! (and other activities as time and interest allows)

The Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center Los Angeles reserves the right to substitute speakers or rearrange events if necessary. All of the listed speakers are confirmed at this time, but should any be unable to attend, for any reason, the Center  will provide substitute speakers and/or topics. The views of each speaker are personal, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers.

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