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Roberto Reveilleau | Training in London | Pictures

Roberto Reveilleau is a physical education teacher with a post graduate degree in Art therapy. He first encountered the Alexander Technique in 1986 and has been working with this technique ever since. He qualified as a teacher of the Alexander Technique in 1992 after 3 years of study at The Constructive Teaching Centre in London, the oldest established teacher training school of this technique.

In Rio
Roberto has given lectures on the Alexander Technique in the Psychology department of the Federal University of Rio (UFRJ), at the dance department Faculdade da Cidade, at the University Estácio de Sá, at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica, at the 1st International Congress of Corporal Approaches, at the III Brazilian Congress of Speech Therapy and Voice, at Seminários de Musica Pro-Arte, at the Theater-Forum: II Encontro Anglo - Brasileiro, at IBMR- Instituto Brasileiro de Medicina e Reabilitação, at the Esther Weitzman Dance Co., at the music department of UFRJ, at the office for the board of education of the city of Rio de Janeiro, amongst others. Since 2018 Roberto is directing together with Merran Poplar the ESCOLA da TÉCNICA ALEXANDER do RIO DE JANEIRO - EsTAR.

In São Paulo
Worked at the International Music Festival in Campos de Jordão, the Centro de Estudos Musicais Tom Jobim, the Escola Nova Dança, and at the Symphonic Orchestra of São Paulo (OSESP). Roberto also participated in the Alexander Technique Project 'thinking in activity' in São Paulo together with Reinaldo Renzo and Isabel Sampaio, and helped establish the first Alexander Technique Training Course in Brazil.

In Portugal
Since 2002 Roberto has taught regularly in Portugal. He has given classes, lectures, and workshops at the Escola Superior de Musica de Lisboa - ESML, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana - FMH, Escola Superior de Dança, Conservatory of Lisboa, Catholic University - Porto, Fundação Musical Amigos das Crianças, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas at the University Nova de Lisboa (UNL), Academia de Música Fernandes Fão in Ponte de Lima, Instituto Gregoriano de Lisboa and Academia Musical from Graciosa island.

Alexander Technique Teacher Training Schools
Roberto was co-director of the Escola Brasileira de Formação de Professores da Técnica Alexander: Pensar Em Atividade, in São Paulo. And has also taught at the Buenos Aires training school - ETABA, at the training school in Viena - WAAT, Austria, at The Alexander Technique Studio and the Constructive Teaching Centre In England.

University teaching
From 1994 to 2007 Roberto taught the Alexander Technique at the music department of the University of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). From 2001 to 2013 he was also teaching the Alexander Technique to under-graduates of the dance department of the university UniverCidade, RJ.

Publications
Roberto has published articles on the Alexander Technique in the Guia de Abordagens Corporais, Editora Summus, 1998; in the Catalogo de Abordagens Terapêuticas, Editora Casa do Psicólogo, SP, 2005; and in the book Em Pleno Corpo - Educação Somática, Movimento e Saúde, Editora Juruá, PR, 2008.

Also in the books Entre o Ser e o Estar -Técnicas Somáticas e Práticas Performativas, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana Publicações, Lisbon 2019 and Educação Somática e Seus Pioneiros no Brasil - Volume I, da Juruá Editora, PR 2020.

Associations
He is a member of the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique - STAT, England and of the Brazilian Association for the Alexander's Technique - ABTA.

Training in London

Roberto had the opportunity to study with Walter Carrington (1915-2005) and Dilys Carrington (1915 - 2009), directors of the Constructive Teaching Centre in London.

Walter and Dilys learned the work directly with Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955), the creator of what is now called the Alexander Technique. A working system to promote well-being through awareness of posture, balance and physical coordination. This awareness would allow individuals to adjust unconscious bodily habits into new patterns which offered a number of physical and mental benefits.

Walter began training in the Alexander Technique in 1936, he was a teacher assistant in the F. M. Alexander training course until his death in 1955. After that he and three other teachers carried on the training course according to Alexander's methods. In 1960 he founded his own school, the Constructive Teaching Centre in Holland Park at 18 Lansdowne Road. This address visited over the years by teachers and students around the world in search of experience and knowledge that the oldest school for training teachers of the Alexander Technique provides. Walter continued to teach at his school continuously until his death in 2005.