Knees Problems Are Everywhere -

And many AT teachers also suffer
with knee issues from injuries or aging.

For me also, knees have always been my weak spot, but I’ve been able to keep them trouble-free with AT over the years. But recently they became very painful, and this prompted me to do much more research. This has helped greatly, my knees are now mostly pain free, and I'm excited to share these new discoveries with other teachers.

All About Knees Online Workshop

Directions and Discoveries For Working With Knee Issues.

  • For AT teachers and trainees only.

  • Onscreen places limited to 20.

  • The meeting will be recorded if you cannot come live.

Sunday 1st March is now fully booked.

The workshop will run again on Sunday 8th March.
4-7pm UK time
Come in person or ask for the recording
See FAQs below for details

"I so appreciated the candid nature of the workshop and hearing about fellow teachers' experiences with injuries and also your own too, that made it very enjoyable and accessible." Angela, AT teacher, UK

Alexander Technique Work

In AT work, we usually work by releasing overworking muscles so that the natural body balance can come quietly back into play. But when, after training, I went to Miss Goldie, she saw that often I was now over-releasing, and was not using sufficient tone. She worked to get me to switch areas on and keep them alive and flowing, but didn’t specify this anatomically. 

In the last few decades, there have been huge advances in understanding the moving body. To research this workshop I have investigated many different knowledge bases, including physiotherapy, medical anatomy, functional anatomists, fitness work and movement coaching. Each provided different aspects of understanding; discussed the underworking muscles as well as the overworking ones; and had various protocols of how to get things working again. I found it began to add up to a coherent story that I could Alexanderise and which then could help my knees in a very different way.

In this workshop we will begin with the anatomy of the knee joint, how it is stabilised – both locally and in relation to the whole body use – and what happens when that stability is lost. We’ll discover why ‘knees forward and away’ is a crucial direction for knees, but also has limitations of usefulness. From there, we can begin to work with some new directions to regain tone and stability around the knee joint, and explore how these link to whole body directions and use. We’ll then explore directions to help painful or unstable knees while walking.

I have allowed three hours to explore these issues in full, giving time for questions and personal guidance; we will take a ten minute break in the middle.

"I found the workshop very useful, it’s contributed to the continued improvement in my sense of connectivity, strength and stability in my legs and back. We need to know this and so do our students." Jill, AT teacher, UK

"Thank you for such an informative session. I will certainly use this knowledge in my teaching." Julia, AT teacher, UK

Pricing options

Choose the plan that suits your current circumstances.

“Adding in the new direction felt like I had a bandage supporting me as I walked. Then everything came up! It felt so much better!”  Carol, AT teacher, USA

"The new direction has changed the alignment of my legs - it stops my hyper extension patterns. I really felt walking from the back, and the lightness and power that come from that."  Julia, AT teacher, UK

Facilitator

Penelope Easten

Penelope’s story. I initially read zoology at Cambridge university. I took my first lessons in 1983 and qualified in 1989 from the North London Alexander School (Misha Magidov). After training, my use fell apart, as no-one had taught me to work on myself. This took me to Miss Goldie, who stripped away everything I had learnt, and rebuilt it as she saw the technique should be - a scary process! I worked with her for four years, and that began a thirty-year journey to understand the differences and power of Miss Goldie’s amazing work. It has taken me to many other teachers – including Erika Whittaker, John Hunter, and Jeando Masoero, and to many avenues of exploration and understanding – both scientific and alternative. From age seventeen, I also battled with another 30-year journey - with chronic fatigue syndrome. This is now sorted, but after it I needed to rebuild tone and strength, and increased calm and resilience, which this work has enabled. I have been teaching workshops on Miss Goldie’s work since the Oxford Congress in 2004, in UK, Ireland (including the Limerick Congress), Germany and America. My book: The Alexander technique. The twelve fundamentals of integrated movement was published by Handspring Publishing in March 2021. After 19 years in the West of Ireland, I now live in Edinburgh with my husband and dog, and nearby to my daughter and small grandchildren. I am passionate to share this work that can bring us such renewed vigour, sense of youthful springiness and calm presence.

FAQs

Q: When is the next workshop?

A: The next workshop will be on Sunday 8th March 2026

Q: Do I need to be there in person?

A: You can attend in person or watch the recording after.

Q. How long will seminars go on for?

A. Each seminar is 3 hours long. So for UK time, they will be 4.00-7.00pm

Q. What times will this be in other time zones? 

  • UK: 4pm - 7pm
  • Central Europe: 5pm - 8pm
  • Eastern Europe: 6pm - 9pm
  • EST: 11am - 2pm
  • CST: 10am - 1pm
  • MST: 9am - 12pm
  • PST: 8am - 11am

“I’ve been on a long recovery from a major car accident 4 years ago, and from that time I have been ‘drunk’ on my legs – I felt all over the place. During the workshop with Penelope, I spent some time practising the ‘walk’.  My whole manner of walking changed and I was no longer ‘drunk’. My legs felt as if they had had a serious workout.  In every way. They were strong and solid.  I had legs !! 

When I came to walk a little later, my legs just knew how to walk and I was still in a state of balance. My legs were completely different in Tai Chi the next morning.  I could balance on one leg differently. I have also noticed a strengthening of the glutes! Also sense of my sternum and freer shoulders.

I am now working with the walk, slipping in a quick practice before I set off, reminding my nervous system that all is well. It is astounding. By directing the walk in Alexander’s way, it has reminded my nervous system as to what is possible.” Lesley, AT teacher, UK

Pricing options

Choose the plan that suits your current circumstances

"After an abdominal operation I developed gluteal tendinopathy – intense pain in the top of the right hip which was so painful and getting worse, so that it was difficult to walk or climb stairs. I felt I’d lost my midline, even I was doing all the right things – working with psoas, breathing and so on, it did get better but then worsened again. But somehow, working with the directions in the workshop cleared the pain. It’s a miracle! Now my legs are much more comfortable, more balanced in movement." Angela, AT teacher, UK