Brooke Thomas of the Liberated Body interview Richard Brennan and Patricia Pyrka about school chairs. www.liberatedbody.com/podcast/movement-friendly-classrooms-lbp-043
This is a short, funny, informal documentary made by the trainees around the 20th anniversary of the Alexander Teacher training course, Ireland.
Richard describes his motivation for writing his new, easy-to-understand, practical book designed to help readers discover the cause of their own individual back problem and offer them an effective and lasting solution to their suffering. Introduction by Tomás Hardiman.
Both the interviews below were conducted by Robert Rickover and were recorded in September 2011. These interviews and many others on the subject of the Alexander Technique are available at Alexander Audio.
Richard explains how he found relief after 8 years of unsuccessful back pain treatments, and then trained as an Alexander Technique teacher in order to help others. Guest speaker is Dr Kieran Tobin, M.B, B. Ch, BAO, FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Irl), D.L.O. Past President of the Irish Otolaryngological, Head and Neck Society and the E.N.T. Section of the Royal Society of Medicine of Ireland. Introduction by Niall Kelly, President of the Irish Society of Alexander Technique Teachers.
At the same London book launch, special guest speaker Tim Brennan tells how he invented VivoBarefoot footwear to overcome ankle injuries he suffered playing tennis in the late 1990s.
Richard Brennan took part in the 2013 Back Hope summit, an online summit for people with back pain.