Head of Training
Carolyn Nicholls
BA (Hons) MA, MSTAT, OCNIV
Carolyn Nicholls trained as an Alexander Technique teacher with Walter and Dilys Carrington and graduated in 1982. After qualification she built up a private practice in London as well as teaching on the Carrington’s course. Carolyn spent a year as Dilys’s apprentice, learning the systematic approach to the training of new students in the use of their hands.
Carolyn Nicholl’s MA is in Alexander Teacher Training, concentrating on the ‘Analysis of the Specialised Use of the Hands in Alexander Technique Teaching‘.
She gained a distinction pass for her Masters research study from the University of East London, by work based learning.
The MA thesis can be downloaded here (5Mbyte PDF).
Carolyn also taught the Alexander Technique at ACT Drama School, Brighton and specialises in working with actors, singers and musicians. Carolyn’s opera ‘Gravity and Light‘, written as part of her masters thesis, was premiered at Oxford Town Hall in August 2004. Liberetto by Carolyn, music by Leon Coates.
She has worked on various training courses and was the Assistant on The Melbourne Alexander Training School (Australia) from 1987-1990. In 1990 she returned to England and became Co-Director of The Brighton Alexander Training Centre and launched The Brighton Alexander Technique College in January 2003.
Carolyn runs postgraduate refresher courses for Alexander Technique Teachers both here and overseas as part of a Continuing Professional Development programme. She gave the F. M. Alexander Annual Memorial lecture in Edinburgh in July 2003 and serves on the Training Course Committee of STAT council.
Carolyn developed the training course with the Open College Network so that students can now gain credits for their training. She has run a Post qualification Pathway course for existing teachers to gain the OCN accreditation
Carolyn has recently returned from a tour of New Zealand and Australia. She gave New Zealand’s inaugural F. M. Alexander Memorial Lecture – How do Dogs Learn to Whistle? – in Wellington on April 7th 2006 (click to download PDF file). Carolyn ran courses in Reflective practice for Alexander Teachers both in Wellington and Melbourne as well as being overseas guest speaker on the Melbourne Training course.
8th International Congress of Alexander Teachers. Lugano, Switzerland August 2008. Carolyn will be one of 25 named teachers from around the world forming a Continuous Learning Team as the core of the Congress. www.atcongress.com
Her book Body, Breath and Being – a new guide to the Alexander Technique, is available from HERE |
Deputy Head of Training
Astrid Holm
BA, MA, MSTAT OCN acc.
I started having Alexander Technique lessons fourteen years ago when I was working for IBM. I was in my twenties but had a bad back and felt very stressed. I had already been to the physio who had told me I had a scoliosis, fallen arches and one leg longer than the other. Now I just felt like a freak with a bad back! Being ‘clicked’ once a week was not the answer. I wanted to understand WHY I had back pain and learn how to sort it out myself…
For me, Alexander Technique was the answer. It gave me the tools to learn how to stop using my body with so much tension. My back pain disappeared in a few lessons and so did my headaches and racing heart rate. Like so many other people my poor posture and stress was causing my back pain.
I have now been teaching for eight years and I am the deputy director of The Alexander Technique College of Sussex, working with Carolyn Nicholls.
www.astridholm.com |
Tutors
Francesca Jane Aldridge
BSc, MSTAT, OCN accreditation
I trained at the Brighton Alexander Technique College (formerly The Alexander Technique College of Sussex), becoming a qualified teacher registered with the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (STAT) at the end of 2007, and gaining OCN accreditation in Alexander Technique.
Now I teach from my home in central Brighton, and have also taught at the Ardingly International Music School (summers 2008, 2009). I am an assistant teacher at the Brighton Alexander Technique College.
www.alexandertechnique-teaching.com
Mark Claireaux
As a back pain sufferer myself, I gained a terrific amount of benefit from the Alexander Technique.
I knew much of the problem was related to bad posture, but was quite shocked at how I held stress and undue tension in my body, not only in the obvious places, ie. neck and back, but also in shoulders, hips and ankles, etc.
It took time but I went from being on very strong prescription drugs to becoming relatively pain-free. I felt I had gained control of my body rather than being a slave to it. This impressed me so much I decided to embark on the training course to become an Alexander Technique Practitioner. As with all certified Alexander Technique Teachers I have completed a full time three year course and I was fortunate enough to train with Carolyn & John Nicholls at the accredited Brighton Alexander Technique College. I am a full member of the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique and I teach from a studio in my house in the North Laine in central Brighton.
www.alexandertechniquebrighton.com
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