How is AASW unique?
- Individualized programs of 3 – 6+ years allow students to incorporate the training into their already rich and full lives.
- Training can be a combination of intensives in NM and workshops in the student’s home areas, enabling those not living in NM to study easily and effectively.
- The Living Arts Curriculum applies Alexander’s principles to contemporary life, making the Work easily applicable to daily and professional activities.
- Teaching styles range from classical to contemporary, so that students gain maximum flexibility in their teaching skills.
- Students become equally skilled in the pedagogy of individual and group teaching, helping ensure a successful career as an Alexander Teacher.
- Students gain the skills and practice needed for teaching successful Introductory Workshops, which is essential to creating a full and varied career.
- Students gather actual teaching experience in group and individual situations throughout the training, thus enabling them to graduate with practical experience.
- Students are introduced to allied movement and body studies to help broaden their awareness and understanding.
- First year students become certified as LIVING IN A BODY™ Level I Instructors, allowing them to begin to incorporate body mapping tools into their other fields of expertise.
- Students gain the necessary kinesthetic, theoretical, philosophical, and pedagogical understanding to fully embody Alexander’s principles in their lives, and to impart that life experience to others.
Alexander Alliance SW Student Teachers
mapping fencing motions during a class in Coyote NM.