We offer life changing and liberating experiences through processes such as the Alexander Technique, Systemic Constellation and Modern Meditation in order to continuously awaken self awareness and resources that strengthen our resilience to the fast changing world.
The Alexander Technique is a method of re-education of the body and mind. It teaches balance and co-ordination through verbal instruction and the use of the practitioner’s hands. In daily life we place a high demand on our mind and body which results in over-contracted muscles and a distorted posture. Our aim is to become aware of the way we think and move in our everyday activities, and through this awareness, reduce or eliminate the causes of pain and tension.
Practising the Alexander Technique will help improve the use of the self. We sometimes accept our misuse as normal, not realising the extent to which we are contributing to our own physical discomfort and stress.
It brings a clarity to our thinking and gives us space to manage the stresses of daily life. The Alexander Technique has been taught for over a century and improves not only your breathing but also builds confidence as we re-align with our innate poise and movement. As the body transforms back to its natural posture, health and well-being are enhanced helping you discover a new balance by releasing all that is unnecessary.
If you would like to find out more about how the Alexander Technique can help you, please contact me to discuss further.
If you would like to find out more about the Alexander Technique, please see this excellent video from the Alexander Technique Video YouTube channel:
Healing
When we fall and the veil of composure drops away, grace can help us meet life as it comes with ease, equanimity and courage.
My aim is to help students achieve a state of being from which their body is able to heal itself, returning to a natural balance as quickly as possible: For minor aches and pains to disappear; to resolve the cause of persistent headaches; to become aware of habits leading to muscular pain and injury; to alleviate pain or distress from illness and disease.
Supportive
Grace conveys the meaning of a mood without words , we establish silent communication using the minimum of movement and expression.
In addition to the physical aspects of our body-use, we must consider the balance and well-being of our mind. My work helps students to achieve an inner stillness, from which we learn to breathe and apply movement. This results in an overall harmony, unifying mind and body, giving us space to deal with the challenges life sets before us. We develop an openness to our inner voices, our feelings and movements in relationship to others, requiring only the willingness to listen and to experiment.
Ethical
Allowing the other to be a legitimate other is the only emotion that expands intelligence.
Being ethical matters to me. Fairness and neutrality of one’s thoughts and feelings are the most important elements. It does not matter who we are or where we come from or have been. We think about our planet as we think about our own bodies, our dreams, our families and our groups or community.
Retreats
We hold intensive retreats during the summer from May to August, in private locations in UK and in Italy at the Joy centre in the val Pellice, north of Turin city. We create a programme that meet the needs of your organisation or your own persona.
| You choose your dates and together we will create a stimulating and rejuvenating retreat where you will be invited to set an intention for transformation as you: immerse yourself, with time allowing space to think with clarity, nourish your body, mind and spirit with new experiences. Integrate hands-on Alexander Technique and Modern Meditation, clear patterns of behaviour that don’t serve you through observation of feelings with systemic constellation. Transform your stress, fatigue and pain into a balanced, healthy lifestyle. | We will awaken sensations through set forms of movements. The forms will encourage the physical body to open, connecting our inner feelings to our outer relationship with the environment, realigning our intentions and our actions: the thinking mind will respond to these forms of movement according to ingrained habitual patterns of reaction. This will bring attention to the present moment and allow our awareness to develop the use of directed orientation of movement. In this way we will challenge those habitual patterns and allow a new experience of freedom in movement to develop, freeing ourselves from patterns causing aches, pains and stress. When necessary we will observe responses to strong emotions and use Systemic Constellation to clear while honouring what no longer serve us. Our aim is to invite awareness, as the mind lets go of preconceived ideas of how to be, the body reawakens to the present moment. | The mental health benefits from developing inner and outer integrity, changes how we functions as new neural pathways are created and a sense of harmony is experienced and the healing we seek naturally occurs. Our work deepens in substance as we connect to a greater sense of present stillness.Whether you are new or experienced in the world of Alexander’s principle, movement Shiatsu and Meditation, no matter where you are in your life, this process will be “meeting you where you are at,” and naturally guiding you to your full potential for expression. Your only need is to be open to time and to welcoming of the unknown. We will meet in a group, for a minimum of 4 to 6 hours each day, morning and late afternoon for a long week-end from Friday evening to Sunday or a full week starting on Thursday afternoon to Wednesday evening. |
Giorgina, with you taking the class I noticed several positive changes in me and started to understand what it is all about.
I adored my recent experience on Alexander course. The five sessions managed to combine the practical (mainly) with the theoretical and opened my eyes to some ideas that might change my life – they have already made me more mindful and self-aware. Giorgina’s example and her amazing hands-on work were just terrific and I would recommend this course to anyone concerned about an inability to relax, a general worry about posture, stress or who simply looks for a different way of looking at themselves.
Any anxiety, worry or pain is gently melting away, while my focus and attention shifts to the energetic movement within my body, allowing the mind to reset and become more and more peaceful and quiet. I go deeper and deeper in myself… and smile!
I really enjoyed the meditation session today. When i first heard it was happening i thought it would be interesting to attend and appreciated what a unique opportunity to be able to experience this at work!
I was pleasantly surprised at how comprehensive the session was, covering so many activities and techniques/exercises, and was also mightily impressed at the high quality and expertise displayed by Giorgina.
I have suffered with my stooped posture for years. 17 years later, it is nearly gone, thanks to the work I have done with Giorgina.
Her strong emphasis of verbal direction and dynamic physical orientation was vital and I feel that I have a hugely better understanding of how my body works and how to do things thoughtfully and with more grace.
GiorGina Pontet
The strength of her teaching was developed by her willingness to engage with the world at large, working with victims of war, addictions and mental health as well the chronic and terminally ill, artists and sportsmen, developing her compassionate heart with integrity.
“It is not what we study and who was the master that trained us, but how we use their teaching wisely in order to engage our inner master and how best we share and facilitate others’ transformation from discomfort to love.” From her ancestral roots high in the Italian alps, stillness always was and is embedded in her quality: a traveller at heart connecting through stillness broke all boundaries created by cultural and linguistic barriers in order to live and connect with life fully.
In her travels Giorgina often saw and felt the pain of the oppressed and disadvantaged in society; sights which made a profound impression upon her. “I was having difficulty expressing my concern for the inequalities to which I was bearing witness. It was then that an urge to work towards healing and empowering individuals regardless of cultural backgrounds, became my only way forward.”
A passionate student of equanimity, she searches for inner freedom with equilibrium and developed her own modality to re-educate individuals in need. Journeying with authenticity she uses our three best friends: gravity, space and breath. Her passion for evolution in her understanding of life continues to grow, deepening her personal development. Her wish is to facilitate movement with global integrity.
Accreditations
Giorgina’s professional development is continuous.
Giorgina is a fully qualified teacher of the Alexander Technique, movement shiatsu practitioner, Time Therapy with somatic meditation and systemic constellation facilitator.
She has been a member of the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (STAT) since 1991, qualifying as a certified professional in 1995 and in 1997 achieved MRSS certification of professional competence in Shiatsu in UK. After studying with Manuel Schoch for for 10 years n 2002 she gained her accreditation in Time therapy/modern meditation from the Tune In institute in Zurich. Continuing her meditation studies in 2017 received a diploma in relational mindfulness and the liminal mind by the Karuna institute in Devon. To further her knowledge in family and systemic constellation she studied with the centre for systemic constellation in London and attended the applied training for constellation facilitator. Now being a member of the International Systemic Constellation Association.
Believing that different individuals require and respond to different forms of support, Giorgina not only utilises the principle of the modality by which she has graduated in her formal studies, but uses her process of integrating work that bridges modern science, anatomy, neurology and the biomechanics of the self. Her passion for understanding evolution continues to grow, she is embracing her creativity process through finding the rhythm and spiralling flow to her own dancing. Her wish is of facilitating movement of health with a global integrity.
Events
We meet both in person and online.
Looking forwards to 2023 with enthusiasm
At present we regularly have 5 weeks long group workshop on Alexander Technique, somatic meditation and journal writing for mental well being. You choose what modality you would like to explore and contact us.
All our workshops have a scale price to accommodate all needs, and vary from low to moderate to generous.
Our Structure from our studio or your office.
We offer presentation that includes scientific evidence of the modalities we teach. We develop project within your working environment that suit your needs and that of your organisation, we do group and individual work.
Two hours presentation
Following 6 weeks intensive work of 3 days each week of small group work or individual one to one.
One day workshop
Following either 6 weeks or 3 months of intensive work
Regular work one day a week for individual or group “requirement a minimum of 12 sessions.”
Monthly intensive week-end
Saturday and Sunday from 10.30 to 16.30.
Year long programme
We now have one year long programme that includes 3 residential week in the North West Alps of Italy. Please contact us for full details.
Online Schedule
Journal Writing For Mental Well-being
Wednesday afternoon 13.00 to 15.00
Through this course you are invited to explore and reveal limiting belief, repetitive stories and cultivate your self healing, your inner qualities in order to strengthen your awareness and your inner wisdom.
Before putting words to paper we sit quietly in observation of the mind as we invite silence entering the mind we connect the breath, brain and heart. As we soften in to this awareness, together we explore challenges by noticing what takes place in the body when we quiet down. As we enter a deeper state of perception, we bring to awareness the habitual pattern of the physical structure that limit our clear thinking, creating more dynamic energy, greater creative expression, successfully aligning gifts and values. Gaining better vibrant health, with more confidence and joy.
You don’t have to be familiar with writing, just a willingness to explore your thinking process, with a desire to explore the inner dynamic of heart mind and soul connection.
Alexander Technique
Monday morning 10.00 to 12.00
Thursday evening 19.00 to 21.00
Alexander Technique looks at the way we carry out our intentions. Often we use a process that is habitual, unconscious, and counterproductive. The technique offers a practice of staying open and alert at the moment, observing our familiar tensions, and choosing to move without them. Beginning with the assumption that we are perfectly designed for movement and balance, we engage our mind to undo layers of interference, creating opportunity for change.
Learning to create time in between stimulus and response, allowing our body our instrument, to be in tune and receptive to its surrounding, re-addressing the direction and intention of your postural behaviour.
Modern Meditation
Monday evening 18.30 to 20.00
Meditation requires that we make use of our innate capacity for awareness in this moment. The imperative is to evolve our awareness, so that it might naturally become more whole, more in line with our connectedness to the world. Without such awareness we’re blind to the impact of our current way of thinking. Realising that we do not see the world as it is but as we are. Reminding that no human being has a privileged view of reality, we learn where and how to direct our thoughts and actions through the presence of the breath. Inviting our presence to feel the breath we engage in a practice that is the power of life itself. Inviting the body to feel and be present we are taken deeper than its anatomically and physiological expression . We learn patiently to respect our limitations while bringing light to perceived weaknesses… So we can begin to fully appreciate, all of the potential that is present in our life. It is an invitation to widening the circle of compassion, committing to a manner of co-existence in which mutual respect, honesty and social responsibility arise spontaneously.
Systemic Constellation
Monthly at weekends
Systemic Constellation is an effective short term therapy that has the potential to arrive at the roots of problems in a short time. The interaction between all part of oneself involved, seen and given a space can quickly reveal underlying conflicts within a relationship system. For example within the family, the working environment, or our organism. Each space we physically inhabit is moved by the energy field of the system, which is connected to a deeper layer of the mind not ordinarily accessible. Acknowledging that our own being works accordingly to the influence of its present environment as well as the inheritance aspect of the field of our ancestor and cultural route.