‘We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.’
Aristotle
For 18 to 25 year old students The Ready List facilitates peaceful accelerated learning. This applies to both academic and physical-orientated study.
TRL is also very useful for managing and reducing the impact of stressful situations including, deadlines, exams and performance anxiety.
The Royal College of Music in London has embedded the Alexander Technique in the undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.
In this short film students and Alexander professors talk about applying the Alexander Technique to developing some of the essential skills for musicians.
"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself." Thich Nhat Hanh
Stop: When you are about to get down to work, Stop, to create a spacious moment to consider how you are going to do this. This calms the autonomic nervous system, so you are ready for study with awareness of your physical ease and mental space.
Think Stop.
See: Ask yourself what you are seeing. If you find you are over-focused on a small area, e.g. the computer screen, allow your vision to pan out into panoramic as well as your chosen focus - this changes the freedom in your body - then you are more likely to be balancing and so more at ease and comfortable. Even more influentially, if this is academic work, your mind will be more flexible - you will have access to your creativity and deeper perception. Your eyes are joined directly to your brain and your vision is continuously affecting everything that is making your life what it is. Every 20 minutes or so, look of into the distance for a few seconds to reboot the system.
Think See.
Breathe: Notice whether you are breathing in or out or holding your breath. Your breathing is constantly changing with your emotional state. If you are holding your breath as you ‘concentrate’ your brain starts going to sleep. You need regular fresh air to keep the brain functioning well at conscious and subconscious levels. Your eyes need the oxygen too, so open a window and don’t hold your breath.
Think Breathe.
Soft and Tall: Everything works well when you are not tightening muscles and making yourself smaller. If you are feeling under pressure, you are making yourself smaller. Think of being your full height but don’t do it by stiffening your muscles and spine. You have a reflex programmed into your body to respond to gravity by expanding, let it work for you by thinking Soft and Tall.
Think Soft and Tall.
The Alexander Technique is now taught around the world in many higher education settings, particularly in centres of excellence in the performing arts and academic worlds.
If you would like to find out more about how your college or university can have an introduction to TRL please contact us.
This is a list of where the work is taught by Alexander Technique teachers belonging to the STAT Affiliated Societies, the main global Alexander Technique society.
If you would like more information about how to have courses in your, college or university please get in touch.
United Kingdom
Arts Educational Dance Department Arts Educational Theatre School
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Kings College Choir, Cambridge
Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA)
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA)
London School of Musical Theatre
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS)
Royal Northern College of Music
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD)
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Australia
Australian National Academy of Music
National Institute of Dramatic Art
Austria
Vienna Schauspiel Akademie Elfriede Ott
Vienna Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst
Graz Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna
Canada
Augustana Campus University of Alberta
Capilano University, Theatre Department, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Department of Drama Capilano University
James Bay Community School Centre
McGill University, Faculty of Music
Standard Life Competition Le Domaine Forget
Music and Dance Academy University of Alberta
Department of Music North Shore Continuing Education
Vocal Arts Festival, Edmonton Option-théâtre du Collège Lionel-Groulx Globe Theatre Regina The Royal Conservatory of Music Union des artistes Université du Québec à Montréal
Department of Dance University of Manitoba
Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music University of Toronto
Faculty of Music University of Victoria
Division of Continuing Studies University of Victoria
Piano Summer School York University, Department of Theatre
China
Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Estonia
Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre Georg Ots Tallinn Music College
France
Annemasse and Fouesnant Music and Dance School
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Music High School
Lyon National Conservatoire of Music and Dance (Dance and Voice departments)
Lyon University Department of Sciences and Physical and Sports Techniques
National Radio Children's Choir
National School of Art and Theatre
Technique Paris National Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Rennes Provincial Conservatoire
Saint Etienne Theatre High School
Seine-Saint-Denis Music High School
Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Val de Reuil Intercity Conservatoire
Germany
Berliner Centrum für Musikermedizin
Hochschule für Musik Hanns-Eisler, Berlin
Hochschule für Musik Nuremberg
Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Cologne
Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Munich
Leopold-Mozart-Zentrum der Universität Augsburg
Universität der Künste, Berlin
Ireland
Education Centre Department of Education (one week voice workshop for teachers, in Fermoy, Cork)
DIT Conservatoire of Music and Drama, Dublin (BMus hons and MMus)
Educate Together School, Westside Galway
EPTA Ireland (European Piano Teachers’ Association)
Jesuit School Galway (Transition year pupils)
Trinity College, Dublin (BA Drama)
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick National University of Galway (Adult Education classes) Presentation College, Athenry (Transition year pupils)
Royal Academy of Music Ireland (Workshop)
Salerno School Galway (Transition year pupils)
University of Limerick (BA Music and Dance, BA Traditional Music, BA in Voice and Dance, MA Chamber Music, MA Classical Strings, MA Ritual Chant & Song, Adult Education)
Scoil Mhuire, Clane, Co Kildare
Japan
Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts,
Kyoto Seinenza Theatre Company Drama School
Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai)
New Zealand
Auckland University New Zealand
Symphony Orchestra Toi Whakaari (NZ Drama School)
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington Performing Arts Centre (now Whitireia Performing Arts) for Music, Theatre and Screen Acting
Mexico
Conservatorio de las Rosas, Morelia, Michoacán Artestudio, Mexico City
Norway
Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Trondheim Academy of Music, Oslo
Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology
Poland
Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art, Warsaw
South Africa
Spain
Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco "Musikene" Conservatori de Manresa Conservatorio Profesional de Amaniel
Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón Escola de Música de Igualada
Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC)
Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía Real
Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio
Sweden
Teaterhögskolan, Luleå tekniska universitet, Luleå Ingesund School of Music,
Switzerland
Akademie for Performing Arts, Department of Music, Zurich Music-Akademie, Basel
United States
Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York, NY
American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Los Angeles, CA
American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, CA
American Musical and Dramatic Academy, Los Angeles, CA
Appalachian State University,
Hayes School of Music, and Theater and Dance, Boone,
North Carolina Arizona State University,
Tempe, Arizona Aspen Music Festival,
Aspen, Colorado Bard College Conservatory of Music, Vocal Arts Program,
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Barnard College, New York, New York
Berkeley Rep School of Theater, Berkeley, California
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Brooklyn College, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn, New York
California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita, California
California Jazz Conservatory, Berkeley, California
California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, California
California State University, Northridge, Northridge, California
Carnegie Mellon University, Schools of Drama, Music, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Catholic University, Washington, DC
Chapman University, Conservatory of Music, Orange, California
Circle in the Square Theater School, New York, New York
Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Concordia Academy, Roseville, Minnesota
Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Cornish College for the Arts, Seattle, Washington
Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Denver University, Lamont School of Music, Denver, Colorado
DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, Illinois
DePaul University, Theater School, Chicago, Illinois
Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York
Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon
Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden Sydney, Virginia
Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas
Hoff-Barthelson Music School, Scarsdale, New York
Howard Fine Acting Studio, Los Angeles, California
Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington, Indiana
The Juilliard School, New York, New York
Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon
Long Island University, Brooklyn and Brookville, New York
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California
Manhattan School of Music, New York, New York
Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams,
Massachusetts McNally Smith College of Music, St. Paul, Minnesota
Michigan State University, College of Music, East Lansing, Michigan
The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater, New York, New York
New England Conservatory, Boston, Massachusetts
The New School, Mannes School of Music, New York, New York
New York University Tisch School of the Arts, New York, New York
New York University Steinhardt School of Education, New York, New York
Northwestern University, Bienen School of Music, Evanston, Illinois
Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
Odyssey Theater Ensemble, Los Angeles, California
Pace School of Performing Arts, New York, New York
Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, Santa Maria, California
Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania Point Park University, Conservatory of Performing Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Ponoma College, Claremont, California
Queens College, Aaron Copland School of Music, Flushing, New York
Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island
Rutgers University, Rutgers, New Jersey
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, California
Shakespeare Academy @ Stratford, Stratford, Connecticut Shakespeare Theater, Washington, DC
State University of New York at Potsdam, Department of Theater and Dance, Potsdam, New York
Stella Adler Academy of Acting, Los Angeles, California
Stetson University, DeLand, Florida
Studio Theater, Washington, DC
Syracuse University College of Music, Syracuse, New York
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Towson University, Towson, Maryland
Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, Oklahoma
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
University of California, School of Theater, Film and Television, Los Angeles, California University of California, Herb Alpert School of Music, Los Angeles, California
University of California, San Diego, California
University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, Ohio
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
University of Denver, Lamont School of Music, Denver, Colorado
University of Idaho, Lionel Hampton School of Music & Department of Movement Sciences Dance Program, Moscow, Idaho
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre and Dance, Ann Arbor, Michigan University of Minnesota, School of Music, Minneapolis, Minnesota
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
University of North Carolina School of the Arts, School of Drama, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
University of North Texas, College of Music, Denton, Texas
University of San Diego/Old Globe Theater, San Diego, California
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
University of Southern California, School of Dramatic Arts, Los Angeles, California University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
University of Utah, School of Dance, Salt Lake City, Utah
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin Walnut Hill School of the Arts, Natick, Massachusetts
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Waterfront Playhouse and Conservatory, Berkeley, California
Webster University, Webster Groves, Missouri
West Valley College, Saratoga , California
William Esper Acting Studio, New York, New York
Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio
Yale School of Drama, New Haven, Connecticut
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