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Background

Having been slightly long-sighted all my youth, I became presbyopic in my forties, wearing reading glasses at first and ten years later, I was wearing varifocals from the minute I woke up to when I went to sleep. It is after experiencing a dramatic incident caused by a distortion in my varifocals (what I was seeing through them made me think I had a brain tumour!) that I then decided I had to get rid of these glasses and, if possible, of any glasses. I found a Bates teacher in Paris, and started my vision re-education. It was quite a revolution for me to find out what I could do for my eyes, and a revelation when I could see so much without glasses, and even start reading with my naked eyes under certain favourable conditions... A few months later, having moved to London to start my Alexander Technique training, I found Miss Sage who offered to train me as a Bates teacher. I accepted gladly, and so found myself training in both disciplines in the same time, and it was for me a good opportunity to find out how complementary these two disciplines were.

From 1992 to 1995 I taught the Bates Method in Paris, many of my pupils being my Alexander colleagues. I moved then to Provence and, having a bigger house, I started to teach not only one to one, but also to small groups, and in small workshops, not only in Provence but also in Paris, in the UK and in Switzerland. In 2001, together with my friend and Alexander colleague Marjory Fern, from New Zealand, we created ALTEVI, which means : ALexander TEchnique and VIsion  (www.altevi.com). With Rosa-Luisa Rossi from Switzerland and Lucia Walker from UK, both Alexander teachers working on vision and who soon joined in the Altevi group, and with the participation of Nina Hutchings, Bates teacher, we are organising each year a large workshop, either in France or abroad. This year it will happen for the third time in Italy in June. In our teaching, we apply the principles of the Bates Method and the Alexander Technique.
 

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Practice

Since January 2004, I live in London where I teach the Bates Method one to one and to small groups. I also teach vision on a regular basis in the Alexander Technique School Queens' Park for professional training, in London and since September 2005, in the Alexander Training Course in Brighton.

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Teacher Training for Alexander Teachers

I have opened a training by apprenticeship in the Bates Method since 2006, January 12. The training is open only to Alexander teachers and trainees. It follows the format I followed myself with Miss Sage and is, in a way, a tribute to her memory. It runs on a weekly basis and consists in one hour private session for each trainee each week and on the work provided in the new clinic. The training lasts 56 weeks, spread over one year and a half. For more information: http://www.altevi.com/batestraining.php

Clinic

The "Queen's Park Bates Training School Clinic" is open for one to one appointments on Tuesdays for members of the public. Sessions are given by trainees under supervision.

Upcoming Events

For more information, please visit http://www.altevi.com/batesclinic.php 
or contact Brigitte on:

cavadias.moinot@wanadoo.fr

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