Knee 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 has prompted me to do much more research which has helped greatly, and I now have answers to share with other teachers.

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.

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