I’m Belén, allways happy exploring the world...
I discovered the Alexander Technique out of a restless search of self-improvement meanwhile hoping to improve the world too. While searching for professional training, I decided to go to Holland in December 2001 to train as an Alexander Teacher. I arrived with a big suitcase and a coat that didn´t keep me warm. In the hostel I found some stairs steeper than I had ever seen in my life … In that moment I started (unbeknown to me) the process of the Alexander Technique: to “think up” in any situation.
After a long training with Tessa and Paul, confronting my habits and working hard to pay the school, I arrived at the day of my graduation and jotted in my notebook:
“Amsterdam, 13th December 2004:
The day to fly has arrived. I’m content, happy, fulfilled, with an inner peace: knowing that everything I do in this life I choose myself.
I’m the one who walks,
I’m the one who looks,
I’m the one who speaks,
I’m the one who laughs.
I’m at peace; very content.”
And today I continue in peace. I continue to choose and I know that I choose to have the time. And it are only those thousandths of seconds of “inhibition” before any action that make me able to choose how I want to be in this world.
In Amsterdam I started to give individual classes of the Technique and collaborate as a teacher in the same school in which I graduated.
I specilize in the Alexander Technique for pregnancy and childbirth, studying during two years in a row with Ilana Machover in London I start teaching it in a school that I open together with Manoli and Rut, and which I have to leave due to personal reasons. Today I keep working with pregnant women teaching individually.
I become fan of Elisabeth Walker, the oldest teacher of the Alexander Technique and the unique alive direct source of F.M. Alexander, and, since I graduate, I travel every summer to assist to her workshops Worldwide (Spain, England, Italy, Switzerland, United States, Holland) to learn from her enthusiasm and love about the Technique and her will to keep learning at her 94´s.
I keep continuosly learning assisting to workshops and working with teachers like John Nicholls, Michael Frederick, Meade Andrews, Robin Gilmore, Lucia Walker, Lyn Charlsen and Steven Shaw among others.
Before, I trained as a Kundalini Yoga teacher in Barcelona with Hargobind Singh.
I have explored the world of the Clown in New York Goof School, with Jesús Jara and Peter Shub among others.
I changed from studying the English Philology to the Alexander Technique because my eyesight was getting worse and worse between all those books I had to read, and because I suffered intense neck pains caused by a childhood accident. Today I have come back to Philology, enjoying the pleasure of working on the brain without damaging the body.
I lived in a convent for a year where I learnt in silence to love myself.
Today I live in Valencia. Here I’ve found a wonderful space where I practice “enseñaje”: learning while teaching and teaching while learning.
I continue exploring...
