Penny O’Connor
‘It was fabulous seeing you again & receiving wonderful sessions. What a beautiful gift.’ Jo 2011
Penny O’Connor is a member of the Society of Teachers of the FM Alexander Technique. She worked for ten years in theatre as a writer, performer, director, before re-training in the Alexander Technique under David Gorman and Margaret Edis. Following her certification, she assisted on the training for three years and set up a consultancy Awareness and Development to take the Technique into the workplace, organising conferences, leading workshops, and giving individual coaching for companies such as BACS, Whitbread plc, Eagle Star, Emap Women’s Group, Reuters, Standard Chartered Bank and the Royal Mail.
Since 1997, Penny has been teaching theatre students at Arts Educational London Schools on the BA and MA courses in Musical Theatre and Acting. She designed the AT curriculum and runs a mentoring scheme for newly qualified AT teachers at ArstEd. She has also taught at Guildhall School of Music and Drama , Central School of Speech and Drama, the London Musical Theatre School, Graeae educational theatre programme and with Mind the Gap theatre project.
Penny is visiting lecturer at several Alexander trainings in London, and has taught internationally : in Thessaloniki, Athens, Haifa, Istanbul, New York, the Ionian University in Corfu and led workshops at the International Congress of Alexander Technique in Oxford 2004, in Lugano 2008. She has been teaching on Alonnisos in the summer since 1999, helped by her dog Spiros and partner Mo. She has studied NLP, Chi Kung, writes plays, loves reading books on neuro-science, enjoys gardening, singing, plays guitar and is currently learning the fiddle.
Penny is a Member of the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique
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Spiros
Was abandoned as a puppy in Patitiri, and found his way into the Ikos Travel office – the only one in 1999 that had air conditioning! Clever boy. When the tour guides left after the summer season, he found a good home with my partner Mo. He has natural primary control, direction, and lives entirely in a unified field of attention except when it comes to biscuits when he needs to practice inhibition. He loves walking down to the bay with us and guard our belongings if he isn’t actually testing the waters himself. He enjoys a scratch on his belly, and loves barking at the cats.
