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Limerick Congress 2015 – Tuesday

Limerick Congress Tuesday 11th August

00:20 Trisha Hemingway Facing The Unknown With Joy
04:06 Tommy Thompson Touching Without Defining
10:55 Niall Kelly Who Changes The Change Agent?
15:57 Richard Brennan Workshop
22:41 Avi Granit Workshop
29:55 Michael Gelb Entrepreneurial Success

Limerick Congress 2015 – Thursday

Limerick Congress Thursday 13th August

00:20 Mio Morales Teaching To Learn
04:51 Anthony Kingsley Alexander Essential Or Peripheral?
11:40 Malcolm Balk & Robin Simmons We Are Evolved To Run
19:35 Robert Britton Forward And Up Into The Future
26:15 Semi Supine
29:13 Rome Earl Training With FM Alexander
36:09 Judith Stransky Life As An Alexander Teacher
41:23 Panel 1 The Embodied Mind Project

Please note originally there were two more panel sessions on the original recording but with sound issues – we will be trying to salvage and publish missing sections at a later date

Limerick Congress 2105 – Monday

Limerick Congress Monday 10th August

00:20 John Nicholls Communicating Traditional Means In A Modern Way
06:00 Giora Pinkas The End
10:22 Jack Stern A Pain In The Neck
16:31 Robert Britton Workshop (face)
22:03 Penny O’Connor Workshop
26:31 Panel Discussion

Lugano Congress 2008 – Short Classes 1

Short Classes from Lugano Congress 2008

00:15 Robert Britton – Lessons From An Elegant Dinosaur
09:21 David Moore – The Directions Exploring Different Approaches
13:05 Janet Feindel – Integration Of AT With Actors Voice Work
16:39 Diana Maclellan – Presentations With More Confidence And Charisma
20:19 Sarah Barker & Glenda Batson – Research In Using AT For Training Balance In The Elderly

Lugano Congress 2008 – Elisabeth Walker

A master class with Elisabeth Walker who despite losing her voice decided to continue with the vocal aid of Lucia Walker.

Lugano Congress 2008 – The Trust At Lugano

Anna McCallion talks about the F. Matthias Alexander Trust at the Lugano conference 2008

A Workshop with Michael McCallion

This workshop was organised as a Student Network event. In this film Michael works with a group of student teachers providing working demonstrations through the course of the event. Michael McCallion dedicated his life to understanding and teaching others how to maximise the use of their voice. From nuns to lawyers, auctioneers and budding actors, a steady stream of professionals knocked at his door during the 45 years that spanned his career. For Michael, there was no case of stage fright so severe that it could not be overcome, no voice too quiet to reach the back of an auditorium. Michael’s passionate interest in text, acting and voice was enhanced by his wife’s teaching of the Alexander technique, as they worked together developing the holistic system of voice use. With its insistence on the correct functioning of the head-neck-spine relationship, together with its use of mental direction and inhibition of habitual responses to stimuli, this way of working provides the means whereby the real choice in behaviour may be restored to the performer.​

The Whispered Ah by Ron Murdock

Ron Murdock explains and demonstrates the Whispered Ah.
Permission to show this video kindly given by Nadia Kevan.

John Best Interview

John Best in conversation with Ruth Patterson

John Best (9 mins) John remembers his time in the 1930s and 1940s at the Alexander little school at Penhill and later at Stowe in Massachusetts.

image of FM Alexander teaching at the little school

This is one of three interviews about the Alexander Technique made by Ruth Patterson in 1987. Ruth was a radio producer and recorded them at the instigation of her mother Amy Patterson, an Alexander teacher who had a wide-ranging library on the Technique. The recordings were overlooked for many years and only came to light on Amy’s death in 2016. Ruth Patterson has now donated them to the Trust so they can reach a wider audience. With thanks to Ruth for her work and generosity, and the late David Reed for editing the recordings. All recordings © FM Alexander Trust 2019

Please visit the general videos section or congress section for more Alexander Technique videos, many exclusive to the Trust website, please remember you need to sign-up ( its free ) and sign-in to see more than a small selection of the available videos, more videos are released every month, this month’s releases may be viewed here but please sign-in to see the full release list.

Sydney Holland Interview

Sydney Holland in conversation with Ruth Patterson

Sidney Holland (30 mins) Sidney tells the story of his lessons with FM Alexander.

This is one of three interviews about the Alexander Technique made by Ruth Patterson in 1987. Ruth was a radio producer and recorded them at the instigation of her mother Amy Patterson, an Alexander teacher who had a wide-ranging library on the Technique. The recordings were overlooked for many years and only came to light on Amy’s death in 2016. Ruth Patterson has now donated them to the Trust so they can reach a wider audience. With thanks to Ruth for her work and generosity, and the late David Reed for editing the recordings. All recordings © FM Alexander Trust 2019

Please visit the general videos section or congress section for more Alexander Technique videos, many exclusive to the Trust website, please remember you need to sign-up ( its free ) and sign-in to see more than a small selection of the available videos, more videos are released every month, this month’s releases may be viewed here but please sign-in to see the full release list.