Annie W.
ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE WORKSHOP
Discover Effortless Posture and Fluid Movement
Time: 12 PM to 2 PM
Location: Brookline Village
Cost: $50 Registration in advance required. Number of participants is limited!
If you already have taken my introductory workshop, let others know about this introductory workshop and sign up for the class! If you have not yet taken this insightful and fun workshop, it may be time for you to try!
It will help you understand the art of merging with gravity instead of fighting it! You will look more poised and feel better as well!
Cécile Raynor is a certified practitioner with a 3 year professional training in Paris, France. She has been practicing in Brookline for over 10 years to students ranging in age from 7 to 77. Many with medical or chronic conditions find her work extremely helpful in reducing or eliminating discomfort or pain. Cécile complements her practice by drawing on her experience with exercise, nutrition, meditation and homeopathy. She has taught the Alexander Technique at Lesley University.
For more information or to register, please call
(617)325-0881 or (617)359-7841
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ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
Healthy and Tasty Cooking For Mind and Body Balance
Location: South Brookline
Time: 7 PM to 8:30 PM
Fee: $50 (includes printed recipes of the day). Registration in advance required. Number of participants is limited!
This New Offering is mostly designed for those who are interested in discovering how some basic eating principles can support our mind and body balance. The material presented is influenced by my lifelong interest and experience with nutrition and health. However, the specific principles offered here are inspired by my exposure to macrobiotic cooking and way of life. Interestingly enough, many of them totally blend with the Alexander way of thinking !
This workshop offers instruction as to how to cook healthy and tasty meals in a snap...something lots of adults in my practice have been expressing an interest in! The workshop ends with delicious food for the participants to enjoy!
This insightful and fun workshop will help you to feel healthy from the inside out!
Cécile Raynor is a certified practitioner with a 3 year professional training in Paris, France. She has been practicing in Brookline for over 10 years to students ranging in age from 7 to 77. Many with medical or chronic conditions find her work extremely helpful in reducing or eliminating discomfort or pain. Cécile complements her practice by drawing on her experience with exercise, nutrition, meditation and homeopathy. She has taught the Alexander Technique at Lesley University.
For more information, call (617)325-0881 or 617 359 7841.
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YOGA & THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
HANDS-ON WORKSHOP FOR PRACTITIONERS OF ALL LEVELS
Learn about Postural Reflexes for Effortless Posture and Fluid Movement on and off the yoga mat!
Location: Brookline Village
Time: 12 PM to 2 PM
Fee: $50 Registration in advance required. Number of participants is limited!
The Alexander Technique improves your posture and the quality of your movements by engaging both your mind and body through a gentle hands-on and verbal process of kinesthetic reeducation. It has proved significantly helpful to yoga practitioners of all levels in avoiding the regular pitfalls of all form of exercises such as:
- Demanding the wrong set of muscles to perform a specific movement
- Using the joints incorrectly or not using them enough in a released manner
- Holding instead of releasing through a pose or a movement
- Forcing a stretch instead of softening through it
- Overusing the muscles instead of using the skeletal frame
- Fighting gravity instead of using it for integrated motion and poise
- Overworking the whole body by not letting the postural reflexes do their job
I teach the Alexander Technique with a unique style developed by my enthusiasm for my work, my compassion for my students, and my ability to communicate with clarity both through verbal and hands-on guidance.
This insightful and fun workshop will help you understand the art of merging with gravity instead of fighting it! You will experience being gracefully poised without working at it!
Cécile Raynor is a certified practitioner with a 3 year professional training in Paris, France. She has been practicing in Brookline for over 10 years to students ranging in age from 7 to 77. Many with medical or chronic conditions find her work extremely helpful in reducing or eliminating discomfort or pain. Cécile complements her practice by drawing on her experience with exercise, nutrition, meditation and homeopathy. She has taught the Alexander Technique at Lesley University.
For more information, call (617)325-0881 or 617 359 7841.
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ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE FOR PERFORMERS
Location: Brookline Village
Time: 12 PM to 2 PM
Fee: $50 Registration in advance required. Number of participants is limited!
- Tired or sore while or after you practice?
- Want to get the most out of your practice time?
- Want to be the best performer you can be?
- Want to avoid repetitive stress injuries often experienced by performers?
The Alexander Technique improves your posture and the quality of your movements by engaging both your mind and body through a gentle hands-on and verbal process of kinesthetic reeducation. Practice of your art form along with daily activities becomes easy; pain decreases or disappears. As a result, your energy level increases and your overall health improves.
I teach the Alexander Technique with a unique style developed by my enthusiasm for my work, my compassion for my students, and my ability to communicate with clarity both through verbal and hands-on guidance.
This insightful and fun workshop will help you understand the art of merging with gravity instead of fighting it! You will look more poised and feel better as well!
Cécile Raynor is a certified practitioner with a 3 year professional training in Paris, France. She has been practicing in Brookline for over 10 years to students ranging in age from 7 to 77. Many with medical or chronic conditions find her work extremely helpful in reducing or eliminating discomfort or pain. Cécile complements her practice by drawing on her experience with exercise, nutrition, meditation and homeopathy. She has taught the Alexander Technique at Lesley University.
For more information, call (617)325-0881 or 617 359 7841.
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ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE HANDS-ON WORKSHOP FOR TEENAGERS
Discover Effortless Posture and Fluid Movement in all your activities!
Location: Brookline Village
Time: 12 PM to 2 PM
Fee: $50 Registration in advance required. Number of participants is limited!
This Alexander Technique workshop has been offered exclusively to Honors Seniors at Brookline High and it stimulated quite an interest as it is not academic in nature but experiential so you leave with some new practical experience that can change your life right there and then!
How can the Alexander Technique change your life?
It can promote your academic skills to blossom out of you, it will empower you as you learn to stand upright effortlessly building self-confidence to a new level, it will enhance your athletic and performance skills and give you a sense of control coming from the inside to help you deal with teenager issues!
This insightful and fun workshop will help you understand the art of merging with gravity instead of fighting it! You will look more poised and feel better as well!
Cécile Raynor is a certified practitioner with a 3 year professional training in Paris, France. She has been practicing in Brookline for over 10 years to students ranging in age from 7 to 77. Many with medical or chronic conditions find her work extremely helpful in reducing or eliminating discomfort or pain. Cécile complements her practice by drawing on her experience with exercise, nutrition, meditation and homeopathy. She has taught the Alexander Technique at Lesley University.
For more information, call (617)325-0881 or 617 359 7841.
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ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE CLASS
Mindful Movements
for Poise and Health
Location: Coolidge Corner or Brookline Village in Brookline
Time: 11 AM to 12:30 PM
Fee: $100
In this class, you will practice a relaxing and insightful series of mindful movements to promote effortless posture and fluid motion throughout your everyday activities. You will be given many tools including "active resting", a way to regenerate your back and your body alignment. As a result, you will feel empowered as you learn the art of tension release and pain prevention by "thinking your movements", a skill that can enhance the performance of any human activity.
If you have experienced back, neck or joint discomfort or even pain, you may be relieved to realize that your body is not necessarily defective, weak or worn out but simply complaining about the way it is handled!
Cécile Raynor is a certified practitioner with a 3 year professional training in Paris, France. She has been practicing in Brookline for over 10 years to students ranging in age from 7 to 77. Many with medical or chronic conditions find her work extremely helpful in reducing or eliminating discomfort or pain. Cécile complements her practice by drawing on her experience with exercise, nutrition, meditation and homeopathy.
For more information, call (617)325-0881.
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MEDITATION CLASS WITH ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE SUPPORT
Date: Call to find out about the next sessionLocation: 9 Sewall Avenue in Coolidge Corner, Brookline (Small street across from Trader Joe's parking lot)
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
Fee: Drop ins $20, $75 for 4 Tuesdays
This class gives you the opportunity to practice meditation while learning how to sit comfortably and handle meditation challenges using the Alexander Technique. The Introductory Workshop to the Alexander Technique is a requirement for this class.
Meditation is one of the hardest activities to do for most people and yet it is the most beneficial one because it affects the quality of performance of any other activity we perform. It teaches us to respond to life rather than react to it by developing mindfulness, the art of being present to what we do while we do it instead of being caught in the whirlwind of the monkey mind!
This class can equally help beginning and experienced practitioners. It is an opportunity to experience "beginners' mind" and gain a fresh look at the meditation experience.
Cécile Raynor is a certified practitioner with a 3 year professional training in Paris, France. She has been practicing in Brookline for over 10 years to students ranging in age from 7 to 77. Many with medical or chronic conditions find her work extremely helpful in reducing or eliminating discomfort or pain. Cécile complements her practice by drawing on her experience with exercise, nutrition, meditation and homeopathy. She has taught the Alexander Technique at Lesley University. For more information, call (617)325-0881.
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CLASSES THROUGH BROOKLINE ADULT & COMMUNITY EDUCATION
EXERCISE AND STRETCHING: The Do's and Don'ts (Sec. 01)
Meeting Days: Wednesday
Dates: 7-Jun-06 until 26-Jul-06
Meetings: 8
Time: 5:30 PM until 7:00 PM
Price: $101
Location: United Parish Church
Limited to: 15 attendees
Register for this course or call BA&CE at 617-730-2700 to register by phone.
A diet of all water will not work because your body is not getting what it needs to survive. Similarly, an exercise regime that focuses only on the routine is bound to fail. In this unique exercise class a trained Alexander teacher will teach you to explore the needs of your muscles, joints, and bones in order to avoid problems like demanding the wrong set of muscles to perform a specific movement, using your joints incorrectly or not using them enough, holding instead of releasing into a pose or movement, forcing a stretch instead of easing into it, and overworking the body by not letting the postural reflexes do their job. Through practice, you will learn to offset habitual patterns that strain your body, to move more efficiently and safely, and to enhance your future health and exercise practices. Please bring an exercise mat and wear loose comfortable clothing to class. Limited to 15.
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE(Sec. 01)
Course Code: W014-01Instructor: Cecile Raynor
Meeting Days: Mondays
Dates: 12-Jun-06 until 19-Jun-06
Meetings: 2
Time: 6:30 PM until 8:30 PM
Price: $47
Location: United Parish Church
Limited to: 10 attendees
Register for this course or call BA&CE at 617-730-2700 to register by phone.
Most people accept excess tension or muscle strain as a natural outcome of their busy lives. But we don't need to accept it. Once we become aware of this strain, we can exercise conscious control over our bodies in order to move more effectively. The Alexander Technique, developed by F.M. Alexander, a turn-of-the-century actor, is a gentle hands-on process of re-educating the body, improving postural balance and body alignment, to get you back on the path to the natural coordination that you enjoyed as a child. In this workshop, using a lecture and hands-on format, Alexander's principles will be discussed, observed, and practically applied to everyday activities such as walking, standing, and sitting. This class is a first step to changing lifelong patterns of misuse, and is valuable for those in a wide range of physically demanding professions, from dancers and athletes to musicians and computer operators, and for any active person who wants to gain poise, coordination, and control of actions and reactions. Limited to 10.
Cécile Raynor is a certified practitioner with a 3 year professional training in Paris, France. She has been practicing in Brookline for over 10 years to students ranging in age from 7 to 77. Many with medical or chronic conditions find her work extremely helpful in reducing or eliminating discomfort or pain. Cécile complements her practice by drawing on her experience with exercise, nutrition, meditation and homeopathy. For more information, call (617)325-0881.