**The Alexander Technique is a practical way of learning how to come back to yourself. Out of habit, tension and distraction – and into the immediacy of the present moment.** While it does improve posture, balance and ease of movement, really those are side‑effects of something more fundamental: discovering how to stop interfering with your natural mind-body coordination. In an introductory class, people find that their bodies reorganise, their thinking sharpens, and a surprising clarity of mind and body emerges. It’s a simple, embodied route to living more fully in the here‑and‑now. This is a lively, hands-on class where you will get to work with teachers and each other. This class is suitable for everyone, from nervous beginners to Alexander teachers and trainees. **Location:** South Bank Alexander Technique Centre, LONDON **Time:** 10am-1pm and 2pm-6pm. Anyone may come to either block, but if you're new to the school, the morning class is more suitable. **Cost:** £45 per half-day block. Payment is collected at the end of the class, by cash or card. [Note: Price will increase in the new year.] TEACHERS **Peter Nobes** has been teaching the Alexander Technique since 1993. He is based in central London and has taught the Alexander work in fifteen countries on five continents. He is the author of *Illusion or Reality: are we teaching what FM Alexander was teaching?* which explains what is in FM Alexander’s books, and *Mindfulness in 3D – the Alexander Technique for the 21st Century*. When he isn’t teaching, Peter builds wooden boats and then rows, paddles and sails them. **Cécile Rist** is a director, educator, Alexander Technique teacher, actress and author. She has been a certified teacher (ATI) of the Alexander Technique since 2012. Initially an actress with a love for words, she discovered that what moves her in theatre lies in the poetics of the body. Directing appears to her as a space of expression even more powerful than acting. She teaches the Alexander Tech

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