Jill Ray MSTAT is a qualified and experienced teacher of the Alexander Technique providing lessons for individuals and groups.
About Jill Ray
Jill has a teaching studio in Yatton, North Somerset, where she provides a warm and tranquil setting for pupils to learn the Alexander Technique. There is plenty of space to park. Jill believes in a caring, professional and confidential approach. She has good listening skills and teaches with patience, understanding and enthusiasm.
Jill has successfully helped pupils with all types of problems, such as bad posture, back pain, neck and shoulder pain, joint pain, scoliosis, sciatica, RSI, general stiffness, migraines and headaches.
Jill has also worked with pupils, to improve their performance, in many sporting activities such as riding, golf, bowling, walking and running and runs specific Courses on Walking and Riding. Jill has also worked with musicians, business people and public speakers.
Jill has experience in helping pupils who feel stressed, anxious or depressed, using the Alexander Technique, and her own life skills, to help her pupils to bring happiness, control and calmness back into their lives.
Jill was also involved in the recent research study investigating the effect of Alexander Technique lessons on chronic back pain. The very positive results have been published in The British Medical Journal (see video link on home page) and can also be read at the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique website at www.stat.org.uk
Jill comes from a background of training horses and teaching riders, through which she established the skills of patience, calmness and observation and how to construct a well thought out lesson to ensure understanding and progress.
It was through observing the effect of the rider on the behaviour, balance and movement of the horse that first led Jill to realise the enormous power of the use and control of, the body and the mind. For example, if the rider is unbalanced the horse cannot move in balance, if the rider is nervous, the horse becomes so and starts to misbehave.
It was this quest to help horses and their riders further, and to help improve her own riding and success in competition, that inspired her to take lessons in and study the Alexander Technique.
Learn how to ride your horse correctly with Jill.
Jill was so impressed with the results of her lessons that in 1995 she enrolled on a 3 year teacher training course at BATTSA in Bristol, qualifying in 1998.
Jill has now enjoyed 12 years of teaching the Alexander Technique both to riders and to the general public.
Jill is a member of the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique.
Jill lives at home in Yatton, with her 2 children and 2 dogs who all enjoy plenty of walks and taking part in dog agility training and competitions.
About my Alexander Technique lessons
In an Alexander Technique Lesson you do not learn the right thing – you learn how to stop doing the wrong thing.
In a lesson I will be teaching you how to organise yourself into balance.
I will do this with gentle hands-on guidance, teaching you how to correctly align your head on top of your spine in stillness, and in movement.
During this work you will become more aware of habitual patterns of tension, both mentally and physically.
Examples of this could be - - Using more muscular effort than necessary in order to support yourself .
- Using more tension than required when making a movement – e.g. over using the shoulder muscles when you use your arms.
- Reacting to a situation with tension because you are trying too hard.
I will teach you how to let go of these old harmful patterns of tension and stress, that may well be causing you pain and long term damage as well as interfering with your ability to relax and be happy.
We will work to improve the way in which -- you stand
- you sit
- you bend
- you walk
- you support your shoulders and arms
- you react to a situations that you perceive as stressful .
We can also work on any specific activity that interests you, such as, working at a computer, making a presentation, driving your car, or coping with a stressful situation.
We will spend some time in semi – supine (lying down in an Alexander way) during which, with gentle hands-on I will encourage you to let go of tension and relax.
As a result of having a course of Alexander Technique lessons pupils report that they- feel “different”
- feel more
- feel calmer and less
- feel more aware of their body and how to use
- have more
- have less aches and pains
- feel they have more space to breathe
- feel that they manage relationships and/ or situations at work better
- feel more in control
- feel more content with their life
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