Bob Britton
and
Darcy Elman

are pleased to announce
the opening of

California Center
for the
Alexander Technique

and its first

Alexander Technique
Teacher Training Course

February, 2004
San Francisco, California

The Training
The Teacher Training develops in each student a deep
understanding and embodiment of the Alexander
Technique along with the expansion of consciousness
necessary to function fully as an Alexander Technique
Teacher.

The core of the training involves development of
hands-on skills through working closely with the
teacher and other students. The course will also
include basic anatomy, breath as a function of use,
readings pertaining to The Technique, classes on
how to build a practice, and current studies on the
mind-body connection. The student will be able to
understand, identify and address symptoms related
to repetitive musculoskeletal misuse.

The training takes place over three years and includes
1600 hours of class time. Classes meet for three hours
a day in the mornings, five days a week, for 36 weeks
throughout the year. The ratio of teacher to trainees
will be one to five. The California Center for the
Alexander Technique will also offer master classes with
senior Alexander teachers. Graduates will be certified
and eligible to join the American Society for the
Alexander Technique.
Further Information
The cost will be $6,000 per year, a total tuition of $18,000 over the 3 years of the program. If you are interested in training to become an Alexander Technique Teacher or would like to do an intensive, which includes a set period of time at the training program, please contact:

Bob Britton, 415-664-5066, robertbritton@mindspring.com
or
Darcy Elman, 707-585-8609, darcyann@pacbell.net.
The Alexander Technique
is a wonderful tool for integrating mind and body to bring about optimal performance of everyday activities.

The health of each person depends on ones ability
to observe and make the right choices to bring about ease and balance throughout the whole physical and mental organism.

Darcy Elman and Bob Britton
offer an extraordinary Alexander training course consisting
of an in-depth study of the consciousness of
the body.

“Happiness arises from the awareness of being.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh 		Darcy Elman
graduated from the Alexander Training Institute of San Francisco in 1988. She has taught Alexander Techniqueat Quan Yin Acupuncture Clinic, Dr. Michael Bronshvag Medical Group, Center Strength Pilate Studio, Rolling Hills Fitness, and Tone Pilates Studio.

In 1995 Darcy, was invited to join a
team of top somatic practitioners and movement educators to come together for three years to discuss and research education within the context of the mind and body. The group went on to publish
Ground Work, Stories of Embodiment.

In the past fifteen years she has trained in Chi Gong, Aikido, and Cranial Sacral Therapy. Darcy teaches Alexander Technique in
the ergonomics department
of corporations, and travels to Alaska, Illinois, Florida and Hawaii teaching to groups and individuals. She maintains a private practice in Santa Rosa, California.		 Bob Britton
graduated as an Alexander
Technique Teacher in 1978, and
has taught privately in San Francisco and Marin counties since then. He has taught the Technique at the San
Francisco Conservatory of Music for
twenty years and has trained Alexander teachers at the Alexander Training Institute of San Francisco for fifteen years.

Bob has trained in music and martial arts, and has an extensive background in Buddhist meditation. He has served on the board of the American Society for the Alexander Technique and was Chairman for two years. Bob has taught teachers in Europe and currently is a visiting teacher at the Ausbildungszentrum fur F.M. Alexander-Technik, an
Alexander teacher training course
in Berlin.

Over his 25 year career as an Alexander Teacher, Bob has given over 17,000 Alexander lessons.  
  “Little by little we change the world we live in.
Even the grand earth-shaking events in history
have their origins in individual thought.”
—Eknath Easwaran		  
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