What’s an ITM-lesson?

In a lesson of the ITM Alexander technique you’re invited to choose an activity that we then look at together. We explore how you move and the way you think about your movements, and your questions and thoughts are the basis for every lesson turn. In addition to talking to each other I use my hands in teaching, with gentle touch, to help you discover how you think and how you move.

Your first lesson will also include a shorter lecture in order to introduce some of the important ideas and principles that we will work on for the rest of our Alexander-travels together. In the ITM we encourage your first lesson activity to be sitting in a chair. Sitting is one of the simplest activities and thus presents a good way of getting to know the basics of an Alexander lesson.

In all following lessons you’re free to choose any activity you want to explore. It can be almost anything that interests you; carrying a heavy backpack, walking, writing at a computer, simply sitting, reciting a poem, make a golf swing, sing, or play an instrument, to mention a few. 

In the ITM we prefer to teach in groups, because we can learn so much from each other! Sometimes it’s even easier to learn from watching someone else’s lesson turn than having one yourself. A group lesson always contains a number of lesson turns, in addition to discussions and questions. With that said, of course you’re welcome to book individual lessons if you prefer to do so.

The lessons are always led by the student(s) and the core of every lesson is that it is tailor-made from your, and the group’s, thoughts, questions and needs. 

The skills and the tools you learn during your lessons will in time be applicable in many, if not all, areas of your life. It’s far from a quick fix, but instead offers a life long process of learning, development and improvement!

In a lesson of the ITM Alexander technique you’re invited to choose an activity that we then look at together. We explore how you move and the way you think about your movements, and your questions and thoughts are the basis for every lesson turn. In addition to talking to each other I use my hands in teaching, with gentle touch, to help you discover how you think and how you move.

Your first lesson will also include a shorter lecture in order to introduce some of the important ideas and principles that we will work on for the rest of our Alexander-travels together. In the ITM we encourage your first lesson activity to be sitting in a chair. Sitting is one of the simplest activities and thus presents a good way of getting to know the basics of an Alexander lesson.

In all following lessons you’re free to choose any activity you want to explore. It can be almost anything that interests you; carrying a heavy backpack, walking, writing at a computer, simply sitting, reciting a poem, make a golf swing, sing, or play an instrument, to mention a few. 

In the ITM we prefer to teach in groups, because we can learn so much from each other! Sometimes it’s even easier to learn from watching someone else’s lesson turn than having one yourself. A group lesson always contains a number of lesson turns, in addition to discussions and questions. With that said, of course you’re welcome to book individual lessons if you prefer to do so.

The lessons are always led by the student(s) and the core of every lesson is that it is tailor-made from your, and the group’s, thoughts, questions and needs. 

The skills and the tools you learn during your lessons will in time be applicable in many, if not all, areas of your life. It’s far from a quick fix, but instead offers a life long process of learning, development and improvement!