Thérèse Melville, a Eutony teacher of over 30 years is the leader of my first Eutony retreat and the only teacher of this work in the U.K.
Most course leaders and speakers are attached to their pulpit, their marketing and their ego. I am so used to feeling myself become prickly at the first sight of this kind of teaching, that I wait cynically to see how far into the event I can last without confirmation that this tutor is no different. But 5 days into this 6 day retreat, I find Thérèse, without the characteristics that afflict many of her experience and lineage.
Her neutrality, I discover is thoroughly authentic. What amazes me is that she has truly embodied the work she teaches. It seems silly for me to comment on something so obvious, but so many teachers do not. This is in part I discover is due to her 4 year training with Gerda Alexander, the founder of Eutony.
There are many 4 year trainings in the Somatics field, usually, made of multiple weekends, however for Thérèse her 4 year training with Gerda was full time. The first two years of which the students were allowed to work only on themselves, not with teaching. First they had to experience the work through themselves, to take the full journey as a student and only then she was allowed to learn how to touch and teach another person.
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This is very significant. Many professional trainings design material towards being able to mechanistically deliver the pedagogy, with either an emphasis on monkey see, monkey do or a good dose of intellectualism to explain it. Quoting Gerda Alexander, “Our tendency to emphasise intellectual considerations rather than felt experiences frequently places us outside our reality” There is an important distinction between understanding something conceptually and the direct experiencing of the very same thing. It is very rare to have a teacher who has had this level of immersion applied intrinsically as well as outwardly and a founder who knew the importance of it.
This work is little known and yet its richness has touched many other systems that are more famous within the mind and body field. Gerda Alexander worked with many pioneers from the 30’s onwards and her work has influenced a great many of them, but apart from Alexander Lowen acknowledging Gerda directly for his development of “grounding” as emerging from one of Eutony’s principles, “contact”, very few have been as explicit in nodding to that which they borrowed or were inspired from.
Is this inevitable as any body of work grows, disseminates and evolves? Can any individual list the entirety of their lineage obligations? The very real necessity of sustaining the character and essence of Eutony into the future is not to be understated, but where and how it is received and passed on will inevitably lead to a living adaptation of her ideas, as they organically emerge with the next generation. It would be wonderful to think that Gerda Alexander and her tremendously rich work will influence many according to their own possibilities and that in return she may be acknowledged for her legacy to us all.
Interested to work with Thérèse? You can book a class with her at The London Eutony Centre.