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The Ready List

There is now a website entirely devoted to The Ready List and its many applications. If you want a taster then take a look at the content on this page. Click below to go to The Ready List website where the content is updated and expanded.


 "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." Joseph Campbell  


Go To The Ready List Website

Introducing The Ready List

The Ready List (TRL) is based on the principles of the Alexander Technique. It is a very simple way to transform ourselves by learning:


  • How to be present
  • How to focus
  • How to be easy in our bodies and minds 
  • How to find good posture 
  • How to balance movement and stillness

Learning The Ready List

  • To learn TRL - especially to learn how to expand into soft and tall - it is essential to have some lessons with a qualified Alexander Teacher.
  • TRL is taught by verbal instruction and by gentle indications from the hands of your teacher. 
  • Touch is the clearest way to convey the principles and is an important part of the teaching. 
  • Alexander Teachers are trained to use their hands in a thoughtful and safe way and are regulated by a professional body and a clear code of conduct.
  • For these reasons it is best to have some lessons with an Alexander Teacher to get you started.
  • Lessons are for adults and children and can be taught in the context of any activity that interests you. 
  • Online learning is also possible where direct contact cannot be arranged. The world is changing and Alexander Teachers are increasingly finding new, creative and effective ways to teach.
  • Download more info on how to begin with TRL in PDF form and as an audio file.
  • Watch a video intro made for children.

Using The Ready List

  • We practise TRL by applying it to transition points. These are moments when we transition from one activity to another. 
  • This can be in relation to any specific activity such as a sport, a hobby, playing an instrument, sitting in front of a screen, in fact anything that you can imagine.
  • Transition points also regularly occur in our daily lives.
  • Your teacher will explain all this to you in detail and help you to find one or two transitions that you would really like to work with. 
  • Over time you will be able to apply TRL to more and more aspects of your life.
  • Download more info on how to use TRL in activity here

Finding Safety in Uncertain Times

  “The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.”

William James   


Active Meditation

The Ready List helps us to change any unhelpful habitual behaviour in order to balance our nervous system and to bring a sense of peace into our lives. In this way we can experience a state of being in activity that we more usually associate with sitting in meditation.

  

  • We are hard-wired to seek safety
  • Our behaviour is not always a product of our intention
  • Most of us have a dysregulated nervous system and this determines how we perceive the world and how we respond to the world
  • Peace is our baseline state but it can be difficult to have an awareness of peace if our nervous system is out of balance.
  • More and more of us are grappling with anxiety, insomnia, panic attacks, eating disorders and a range of mental health issues. Many of these conditions are behavioural rather than pathological. 
  • Often it is true that we are not ill, we just need to learn how to regulate our nervous system. We need to change the way we behave and thus rewire the brain.
  • There are many approaches to dealing with extreme dysregulation and The Ready List alone may not be enough. However, everyone can benefit to some extent by learning how to work with TRL.
  • TRL helps us to change any unhelpful habitual behaviour in order to balance our nervous system and to bring a sense of peace into our lives. 
  • In this way we can experience a state of being in activity that we more usually associate with sitting in meditation. 
  • We become very aware of how we are functioning in the world in the moment but can, at the same time, maintain a peaceful sense of detachment from the dramas playing out all around us.

  


Downloads

Begin Here With TRL (pdf)

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How to Use TRL in Activity (pdf)

Download

Begin Here with TRL

You can download the above PDF file. 

You can listen to this audio track of the text. 


A gentle talk-through from Andy Smith, to help you to learn The Ready List

Useful TRL Education Videos

TRL Kids - 01. Let's Start

 Start to learn the Ready List. A simple explainer for children. 

Lazy Labyrinths

 At Educare Small School we use a unique activity, 

devised by Sue Merry, called 

Lazy Labyrinths. 

This video gives an overview of what Lazy Labyrinths are and 

why we use them. 

It includes a demonstration that will teach you how to work with 

Lazy Labyrinths. 

The Best Furniture Set-Ups for Home Schooling

 Learn a few simple principles from experts, that will enable you to create the best environment for your child to work from home. Ideal for home-schoolers but also great for homework assignments. 

    

“Practice non-doing, and everything will fall into place.”
Lao-tzu


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