Who Are We?
We are all qualified teachers of the Alexander Technique, each of us having completed a three-year, full-time training in this discipline. Nica, Joe & Colin trained in London (at slightly different times) with Walter & Dilys Carrington. Nuria and Belén trained in Amsterdam with Paul Versteeg & Tessa Marwick. Between us we have over 100 years of teaching experience!
Since 2014 we have also all trained with New York-based teacher Jessica Wolf in her “Art of Breathing”. In 2024 Jessica asked us to begin training new teachers of Art of Breathing. Let us know if you are interested.
Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing is the most profound
and effective breath work we have found.
It is of fundamental importance to future human well-being.
Combining two disciplines
The Alexander Technique and Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing are not mutually exclusive, but more like two sides of the same coin. It is not possible to teach Jessica’s work without already being a properly-qualified Alexander teacher, and we would say that a thorough knowledge of Jessica’s Art of Breathing has enabled us to become much better and more effective Alexander teachers.
Breath is life
and if you breathe well you will live long on Earth
Sanskrit proverb
Tell me more about……
Colin Beattie
So there I was, having just heard myself say “Wow” as I came to a quiet stop. I was standing on the busy, cobbled street in Galway, looking down at my torso, trying to understand how my ribcage was moving in such a way that it felt both very alien to me and yet at the same time wonderfully free and natural. I could feel my ribs and breath moving in an easy, free-flowing, ongoing rhythm of their own that afterwards reminded me a little of the movement of a jellyfish.
That was 2014 and it was my first experience of the work of Jessica Wolf. I found it incredibly liberating and I’ve found it increasingly so in the years since as I’ve attended Jessica’s subsequent courses in Europe.
I’ve been teaching Alexander Technique, specialising in it’s application to swimming, since 2001 in London and Belfast. Jessica’s work has given me new vitality, confidence, postural support and freedom and pleasure in movement and I’ve been delighted to discover that these benefits are also being passed on to my students. I’m very happy to be able to share this work with such an experienced and lively group of Alexander Teachers and I’m looking forward to our next adventure together.
Colin lives and works in Lisburn, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
Nica Gimeno
When I met Jessica I had been teaching full time for 24 years and running the first teacher training school in Spain for 10 years.
My interest in breathing is crucial to my health and well-being, due to a respiratory deficiency that I acquired in early childhood due to my bronchial sensitivity.
I read a book that named Jessica Wolf and her work “The Art of Breathing”.
I was very interested in what I read about her and I was encouraged to contact her. She agreed to come to Barcelona to work with me and my students in training and I found a ‘teacher’ in capital letters, a kind human being and a friend for life. This is where my second wave of somatic change begins, greater integration of my breathing and AT. Since then, and with the continued work with Jessica, my breathing capacity has improved a lot and this makes my life fuller, safer and more enjoyable.
My interest in breathing is crucial to my health and well-being, due to a respiratory deficiency that I acquired in early childhood due to my bronchial sensitivity.
I read a book that named Jessica Wolf and her work “The Art of Breathing”.
I was very interested in what I read about her and I was encouraged to contact her. She agreed to come to Barcelona to work with me and my students in training and I found a ‘teacher’ in capital letters, a kind human being and a friend for life. This is where my second wave of somatic change begins, greater integration of my breathing and AT. Since then, and with the continued work with Jessica, my breathing capacity has improved a lot and this makes my life fuller, safer and more enjoyable.
Nica lives and works in Barcelona
Joe Searby
I had been teaching the Alexander Technique for over 20 years when I discovered Jessica’s work. For me it is the missing piece of the jigsaw. All through our lessons, our training and our teaching as Alexander teachers we talk about breathing, we read about breathing, we study the anatomy of breathing. We learn ‘how to breathe’ and we practice breathing games and ‘exercises’. But, when I finally came across Jessica’s Art of Breathing I realised I had never really understood or practised full, unhindered breathing the way Alexander talked about it and the way breathing is meant to be.
I find this work as exciting as I found the Alexander Technique when I first had lessons in 1983. It is truly life-changing in the most profound way.
Joe lives in Oxfordshire and works there and in London
Nuria Vera
I feel very fortunate that my wish to understand more about human functioning has brought me to Jessica Wolf and her Art of Breathing. Her work has given me a new kinaesthetic awareness of my breathing system and it is very comforting to feel the continuous and harmonious movement of my whole torso as the air flows in and out.
I completed Jessica’s postgraduate training in 2018. Since then I have been applying her method in my classes and I consider free and full breathing to be essential in helping people to improve their well-being.
I want to continue exploring, learning and growing. My passion is to help those who wish to do the same.
Nuria lives and works in Murcia
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