Alexander Technique for People Living With Parkinson's: Self Management and Self Care

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Led By Bill Connington

Registration fee: $50 

Medical studies have shown that the Alexander Technique is beneficial for those living with Parkinson's. Some of the benefits include improved physical alignment and balance, freer movement and breathing, improved mood, and more efficient use of the self in daily functioning. Join Bill Connington to learn how the Alexander Technique can be of real practical help in daily living for People Living With Parkinson's. Bill will help you understand more about this condition, and how Alexander teachers can give vital help to those living with it. Through mindful awareness, learning simple self-cues, and strengthening the mind-body connection, People Living With Parkinson's can proactively influence the use of themselves, and develop a constructive self management of their own lives. Bill has been evolving this work over seventeen years. He will present new ideas and discoveries in this important application in the Alexander work. Bill has learned over and over that the most important benefit that the Alexander Technique can bring to PLWP is hope.

Bill Connington
Bill Connington is a Lecturer in Acting at the graduate acting school of Yale University. He also teaches classes for People Living With Parkinson's for Yale Hospital. Bill is the former Chairman of the Board of the American Center for the Alexander Technique, and the author of three books on the Alexander Technique. He is an actor and filmmaker, and book series editor for the book series Acting Essentials, published by Methuen/Bloomsbury. www.billconnington.com