Category: News

  • The Creative State where we can change versus the Actor’s State

    I was reading a blog by Brigid Panet on the nature of acting that I though I would share with you – it says so many things of an Alexandrian nature and clearly influenced  by Meisner work. It is making clear the connection between Acting and Alexander without mentioning it.  And f you are not an actor you will still find it very interesting to understand further the way of Alexander.

    https://essentialacting.com/2017/10/29/what-is-acting/

    working on Hamlet 3
  • Beat Stress with Alexander Technique in Sevenoaks!

    A course of 4 half hour sessions to help you beat stress using methods from the Alexander Technique, Tuesdays 1 – 1.30 pm. Come and lie down on my floor at the Neals Yard Therapy Rooms and learn to do nothing! £40 for the course, booked in advance, October 30th – Nov. 20th

     

  • Lie down to help dementia!

    Ii is Dementia Action Week from May 21st – 28th next Monday. How you can help is by going to my Balanced Resting State page on this website and download my lying down in semi-supine audio guidance for free, in return for clicking on my Justgiving page for Alzheimers Research UK and donating.

    https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/penny-o-connor6

    My mother died with Alzheimers in 2000, and now my sister has been diagnosed with it these past 3 years. Care and research are both needed to rid us of this frightful disease.

    Thanking you for your support

    The Balanced Resting State

     

  • Alonnisos workshops full

    Waiting lists only now for the summer workshops on Alonnisos. Email me to be put on the waiting list – we do get spaces appear sometimes – and to be put on my mailing list for next year! If you are on the mailing list, you get alerted to the dates earlier and are able to book ahead of the game…..

    pennyoconnor1@gmail.com

    This could be you next year looking out from my teaching space….

  • The Things They Say

    ‘I feel a better version of myself – still me but more of an upgrade of myself’

    ‘It was like levitation and my vision changed’

    ‘I experienced tranquillity, peacefulness, and a deep calm’

  • Summer workshops in Alonnisos waiting list!

    Pleased to say that all the places have been taken this summer for the Alonnisos workshops. Please let me know if you want to be on the waiting list – sometime a space does come free at the last moment, and I then go through the waiting list to see if anyone can fill the space. Here’s a photo I took from the village  one evening two weeks ago. Very clear light at Easter.

  • Alexander workshops in Alonnisos this summer – only one place left!

    One place available from 13th – 20th July www.alexanderingreece.com

    See you there?

    stopping

     

  • Alexander Thought for the Day March 5th

    March 5th

    ‘Trying is only emphasing the thing we know already ‘ F.M. Alexander.

    ‘No! Try not! Do or do not. There is no try.’ Yoda, Star Wars.

     

     

  • Alexander Thought for the Day March 4th

    March 4th

    ‘When you come to a fork in the road, take it.’ Yogi Baird , eying a parting of the ways

    ‘When you come to a fork in the road, take it’ Yogi Bear, picking a fork up for his picnic basket.

  • Alexander Thought for the Day March 3rd

    March 3rd

    Give up trying for Lent. (Sweeties also a good thing to give up!)