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Teaching Alexander, Tai chi and Yoga at RCM, JRAM, LSMT and LCATT. Latest book, Finding Quiet Strength.

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Discover what is coming up in October at Hawkwood as we slowly move into autumn. With creative writing courses, forest bathing, a Deep Time Walk and an opportunity to deepen your Gong technique, there really is something for everyone this month! We hope that Hawkwood can offer you the space to try something new or develop that project you’ve been working on and we look forward to welcoming you for whichever course you choose.

Plus, we are very excited to be hosting an afternoon sharing of LENYA this Friday at 2:00pm in the Hall - if you are local please do come and join us for this special performance!

All the details and booking links can be found through the link in our bio.

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Recunoscător pentru ocazia de a participa la acest curs alături de Judith Kleinman @findingquietstrength și Sue Merry @thereadylist — două profesoare deosebite, calde și pline de energie. 🙏

Am explorat prin jocuri și povești cum îi ajutăm pe copii să-și dezvolte mișcarea naturală și să vadă cum mintea și corpul sunt legate. Aceste abilități îi ajută să se miște cu încredere, să ia decizii potrivite și să fie prezenți în orice activitate.

Am discutat despre cum pierderea posturii naturale și formarea unor obiceiuri nesănătoase le afectează sănătatea și starea de bine.

Câteva idei-cheie:

🔹 Nevoia și importanța mișcării pe parcursul zilei de școală
🔹 Designul mobilierului școlar și efectul lui asupra posturii și mișcării
🔹 Legătura strânsă dintre capacitatea de a învăța și starea de bine
🔹 Prioritizarea sănătății mintale în fața rezultatelor academice — ceea ce duce la rezultate mai bune
🔹 Cum putem integra ușor, în rutina zilnică de școală, practici simple care rezolvă toate aceste aspecte

Cei mici au, în mod natural, o postură bună și mișcare liberă — dar viața modernă (orele lungi pe scaun, mobilier nepotrivit, presiunea academică) le poate afecta acest echilibru natural.

Ar fi minunat dacă i-am putea ajuta pe copii să crească cu mai multă libertate în mișcare și echilibru, ferindu-i de problemele posturale și durerile atât de des întâlnite.

Cum arată postura copilului vostru când stă la masă sau la școală?

#tehnicaalexander #postura #wellbeing #education

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The Ready List is a small encapsulation of the Alexander Technique from the Developing Self group. They use it to teach Alexander Technique skills in primary, secondary and tertiary education. (I just checked and it turns out I swapped the order of “see” and “breathe”. I don’t think it matters much, but try it in different orders and connect if there’s a difference?

1. Stop - calm the mind
Alexander stopping is not a hard stop, not is it a suspended pause. Rather it’s a gentle passage through neutral. In particular for transitioning between two activities it’s an invitation to notice if there’s is anything still lingering from the previous activity or anticipated about the next one. Instead, we can be in the transition, with nothing left over or pre-prepared.

2. Breathe - notice the breath
Are you breathing? Is anything being held on to? Can you feel the support from the ground? And can you use the timing of the breath to bring you out of time travelling and into the present moment? We can imagine things at the speed of thought, but a breath rakes the time it takes.

3. See - let the eyes be mobile
Are you connected the physical space (and reality) you are in? Are your eyes a bit glazed over or fixed? Just let your eyes wander and notice colours, shapes, textures and depth. The allow your vision to be all encompassing, stretching your awareness from what is right vs in front of you out to your peripheral vision in all directions.

4. Soft and Tall - relax into being a human
We finish bringing ourself into the present, into the liminal space between the two activities, by allowing ourselves to be soft and to fill the space we are occupying, feet and bum received by the ground, head not “pulled up”, but just delicately floating up from not being pulled down.

And now you’re ready!! 😍 #alexandertechnique #embodiedpresence #skillsforlife #mindfulness #developingself

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Judith is joining Rachel Podger and Jennie Muskett this summer at Hawkwood College for a unique residential on string musicianship and body awareness.

Drawing on her work as the author of 'Finding Quiet Strength', described as a 'personal survival kit', Judith brings a thoughtful, grounded approach to resilience, creativity and wellbeing for performers.

28 June to 1 July
Hawkwood College, Stroud

Find out more and book: https://www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/our-programmes/programme/29021-string-musicianship-and-body-awareness

'Finding Quiet Strength' is available in hardback and ebook via Quickthorn.
#findingquietstrength #boga #bodyawareness #workshop #StroudEvents @hawkwood_cft @findingquietstrength @rachelpodger @jenniemuskett

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We do things differently. Proudly, deliberately, differently.

Quickthorn is an independent publisher based in Stroud. A town with independence in its bones. And we operate in the same spirit. We work out of a co-working space with deep roots in the creative community here, we draw on local expertise wherever we can, and we print only what we need. Every decision, from print run to packaging, is made with resource and responsibility in mind. No plastic. No waste that we can avoid. No compromise on quality.

We don't have a corporate parent or a large marketing budget. What we have is a list of books we believe in completely, and a very clear sense of why we publish them.

Our founder Katy Bevan is a maker and a teacher. She has spent years bringing craft skills into communities, and that experience shapes every book we make. Quickthorn titles are designed to be genuinely accessible: information in bite-sized, manageable pieces, supported by clear, beautiful photography that helps tell the story alongside the words. Because good books should work for all readers, not just the most confident ones.

Quickthorn was founded on the conviction that makers and readers deserve books that reflect their values. Books that are honestly made, beautifully designed, and genuinely useful. Every title we publish is chosen because the ideas inside it matter: to individual makers, to communities and to the broader culture of craft and creativity.

📢We're not trying to be the biggest publisher on the shelf. We're trying to be the most honest one - making books that reflect real values, championing makers and skills that matter, and building something we're genuinely proud of.

Small. Independent. Made with care. Thank you to all of our readers, authors and contributors for choosing us. 🙏

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#QuickthornBooks #IndependentPublisher #CraftCommunity #MakerLife #ConsciousPublishing

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Join us for a rich and playful course exploring the connection between music, movement and embodied listening on our Strings Musicianship and Body Awareness course!

Led by internationally acclaimed baroque violinist Rachel Podger, musician and teacher of Alexander Technique Judith Kleinman and multi-award winning composer Jennie Muskett MBE, this course will cover:
🎻 Gut-string playing
🎻 Connecting the breath and the bow
🎻 Body awareness
🎻 Body resonance
🎻 Finding a quiet strength in the activity of playing

To find out more about the course, we spoke to Rachel, Judith and Jennie about the importance of learning about the body whilst playing and what participants can expect from the course. You can read the full Q&A with the tutors on our blog.

🎶 This course is open to all strings players and is suitable for both amateur and professionals alike.

📆 28th June - 1st July

To find out more and book your place through the link in our bio.

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We can't believe we are halfway through May already! But we are really excited about our upcoming courses later this month and going into June, including a variety of different music courses with musicians such as Elisabeth Parry, James Weeks and Rachel Podger. Plus, learn to mend your favourite garments with Skye Pennant and Loes Damhof and Alex Lambie return for their Emergence Academy this summer.

Take a look at what is coming up:
🎶 Sound Wisdom | 24th - 28th May - Learn new ways to hear, embody and express your truth, with confidence, courage and inner stability with @thenakedvoice_chloegoodchild (2 Spaces Left!)
🎼 Flutes Inspired with Elisabeth Parry | 1st - 4th June - Improve your flute skills through ensemble playing, technique sessions, chamber music, and informal performance opportunities with @flutefeasts
🪡 Introduction to Visible Mending | Sun 7th June - Darning, patching and sashiko techniques for your favourite garments with @slowstitchclub
📚 Writing Gothic Fiction | 7th - 11th June - Step into the shadows of the Gothic with @cjcooke_author and @cathryn_kemp and discover how to craft fiction rich in atmosphere, tension, and emotional depth. With midweek guest speaker, @emiliahartbooks
🌱 Composing Ecology | 12th - 14th June - Composer, James Weeks, helps you explore how listening and sound can deepen our relationship with the environments we inhabit.
🤝 Hawkwood Huddle | 18th May & 15th June - Join us for our monthly networking group at Hawkwood.
💡 The Emergence Academy | 15th - 18th June - Explore practical tools for navigating uncertainty with greater clarity, creativity and resilience with @loesdamhof and Alex Lambie
🌳 Summer Forest Bathing | Sat 27th June - Slow down and reconnect with nature on a forest bathing journey with Dee Aebischer (Sold Out!)
🎻 String Musicianship and Body Awareness | 28th June - 1st July - A rich and playful workshop exploring the connection between music, movement and embodied listening with @rachelpodger, @findingquietstrength and @jenniemuskett

More info on all our courses can be found through the link in our bio - we hope to see you soon!

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🐢When you sit down and make something with your hands, something else happens too. The noise settles. You feel able to come back to yourself.

'Intelligent Hands' by Charlotte Abrahams and Katy Bevan makes the case clearly and compellingly for why making is not just a hobby but a skill for life. It explores how the act of quiet, focused making reconnects our often-disconnected heads, hands and hearts and questions why creative education is in decline. 🙌🏽

🧘‍♀️'Finding Quiet Strength' by Judith Kleinman takes this further, drawing on emotional intelligence and embodied awareness to show how stillness and creative practice can help us find an inner resilience we didn't know we had.

And, 'When Words Are Not Enough' a compilation of stories by Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds explores how, in the face of grief and loss, creative response can reach places that language simply cannot. 📚

Three very different books. One shared understanding: that making, in its many forms, is one of the most quietly powerful things a human being can do.

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Illustration by Judith Kleinman from 'Finding Quiet Strength'.

#IntelligentHands #FindingQuietStrength #WhenWordsAreNotEnough #MindfulMaking #CreativeWellbeing #MakingMatters #QuickthornBooks

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Wait for the smile at the end.

That is the second connecting not correcting lets the movement organise itself.
Lengthening.
Widening.
Breathing.
Weight dropping.
Less controlling.
And suddenly the whole body finds an easier way.

The unmistakable sign that the body has recognised an easier way.
This is the craft of good teaching:
finding the exact hands, words, and timing that allow the student to feel it for themselves.

#AlexanderTechnique
#FMAlexander
#EmbodiedLearning
#MovementEducation
#SkilledTeaching
#EaseInMovement
#MindBodyCoordination

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The quality of the breath changes the quality of movement.

Many of us inhale while still narrowing, shortening, and subtly pulling ourselves down.

So even though air is coming in, the body never really experiences space.

A fuller breath creates something very different — height, width, and depth.

A genuine three-dimensional expansion through the whole system.

And when the body has that space, movement becomes lighter, easier, and far less effortful.

Sometimes seeing it demonstrated makes the difference instantly clear.

#alexandertechnique
#breathing
#movementeducation
#bodyawareness
#mindfulmovement
#posture
#easeofmovement

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#indiepublishing #booklist #crafters #stroud but #global

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#tecnicaalexandechile
#formaciondeprofesoresdetecnicaalexander
#aliviodeldolordeespalda
#reeducaciónconsciente
#conscienciadebienestar

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