Rick Brennan, Successfully Selling the Alexander technique

Rick Brennan

NEXT LIVE INTERVIEW: August 9th, 11pm GMT (6pm EST-USA)

I interviewed Rick for the recent DIRECTION issue, Schools of Thought as he runs a highly successful teacher-training school in Ireland. Success as a training school to me isn't the number of people on your course or how many people you graduate, it's about how successful your graduates are upon entering the real world. In that interview several months ago I was literally champing at the bit to ask him other questions...questions that Alexander teachers often ask me.

Rick's expertise is in selling Alexander technique to the common person...the normal people of the world! Author of numerous books and never backward in coming forward to the public, Rick has all the techniques for touching people deeply enough to want more. Join me as I pick his brain on how Alexander technique is going to survive the next decade, with or without scientific support to freewheel on.

More about Richard

Richard Brennan has studied the Alexander Technique since 1983 and has been teaching the technique full time since 1989 he travels throughout Europe giving talks and courses on the Technique. He has taught the Technique at many educational centres including Galway University, Limerick University, Dartington College of Arts, Middlesex University and in the music Department of DIT, Dublin 

Richard has been featured in numerous newspapers and magazines including The Irish Times, The Sunday Tribune, The Irish Examiner, Cosmopolitan, Hello and Home and Country; he has appeared on BBC I & RTE 1 and been featured on BBC Radios 4 & 5 as well as many local Radio around Ireland and the UK. He has written four books on the Alexander Technique, which are translated into eight languages including Russian and Hebrew which are on sale world-wide and his first book – The Alexander Workbook is currently being updated after having sold more than 100,000 copies. He has also written many articles on the technique for a variety of newspapers and magazines.

Richard lives in Galway, Ireland where he is the director of the Alexander Teacher Training College, Ireland (STAT approved). He has also been the President and Vice- President of the Irish Society of Alexander Technique Teachers. (ISSAT) and he was also guest presenter for the AmSAT annual conference in San Francisco in 2009 and gives workshops at the International AT Congress.

More on Richard's website here