LECTURES

 

The Lecturer

Rogerio Correa is an Alexander Technique teacher and an osteopath, having graduated at the Constructive Teaching Centre in 1993 and at the College of Osteopaths in 1999. In the years since graduating, Rogerio has specialized in Process Centered Osteopathy.
Rogerio has previously taught neurology and neuropathology at the Alexander Studio.
His research on neurophysiology applied to the Alexander Technique is the basis for workshops and lectures. These are aimed at Alexander Teachers and students and therapists who work with musculo skeletal disciplines. This research builds on the work of Prof. Eyal Lederman and gives a neuromuscular scientific basis to the Alexander Technique based on current scientific findings.
Rogerio has lectured in the UK and abroad.

 

Lecture: A Neurophysiological View
of the Alexander Technique:

The lecture explores neuro-physiological principles and their relationship to the Alexander Technique. It explores how neuromuscular learning happens, how we adopt neuro-muscular patterns and how we move. The lecture also compares peripheralism versus active learning. It explains Alexander’s discovery under a neuromuscular perspective.

Aims:

  1. Discuss and compare the neurophysiological and the Alexander Technique models of how neuromuscular learning happens, how we adopt neuro-muscular patterns and how we move.
  2. Explore neuro-physiological principles and their relationship to the Alexander Technique.
  3. Explain the principles of adaptation, plasticity and its elements.
  4. Explain Alexander’s discovery from a neuromuscular perspective.
  5. Discuss how the Technique can contribute to neuromuscular knowledge.

Objectives:

  1. A basic understanding of Neurophysiology in relation to the Technique.
  2. An understanding of the processes of neurophysiological learning and psychophysical re-education.
  3. Tools to explain the neuromuscular aspects of the Alexander Technique in scientific jargon.
  4. An understanding of what the Alexander Technique has to offer to the field of Neurophysiology.