Our life experiences shape our sense of our value. With a willingness to feel, we reclaim ourselves.
Theory U
Alexander Technique
Modern Meditation
Systemic Constellation
Personalised wellness programmes, workshops and retreats aimed at enhancing self-awareness and resilience in Twickenham and at private retreats in the UK and Italy.
Inviting enquiry and interrelation processes
Seeking a dynamic awareness that supports and resources us, exploring our deepest desires in order to express our authenticity, liberating us from any conditioning. Looking towards the future with each step being a new beginning.
Opening up with curiosity and inner coherence
Curiosity is the spark that ignites our quest for knowledge, understanding, and growth. With inner coherence, there is a sense of integrity and authenticity in our lives; our decisions and behaviors reflect who we genuinely are, rather than who we think we should be.
Intensive Summer Retreats
Created to meet your individual needs. Nourish your body, mind and spirit with new experiences, and transform your stress, fatigue and pain into a balanced, healthy lifestyle.
Your journey to presence – an intimate unity of wholeness
Your journey starts with setting the intention to connect the brain, to open the heart, to follow the breath, and to let the healing process begin.
About Giorgina Pontet
I continually transform my expertise and teaching practice. Primarily I continue to slow down and listen to the wisdom that wishes to be born. As living systems we need alignment and the ability to feel that within us there is rhythm that demands reflection in reference to its movement. Join me for a shared common goal that brings you health and well-being. Release all that hurt, search for the gifts that you were born with.
I’m listening!
Infusing your life with vitality, authenticity, wisdom and inner truth
The strength of my teaching was developed through my willingness to engage with the world at large, working with victims of war, addictions, and mental health, as well as the chronically and terminally ill, artists, and sportsmen, cultivating my compassionate heart with integrity.
It is not what we study or who the master was that trained us, but how we use their teaching wisely to engage our inner master and how best we share and facilitate others’ transformation from discomfort to love.
From my ancestral roots high in the Italian Alps, stillness has always been embedded in my essence: a traveler at heart, connecting through stillness broke all boundaries created by cultural and linguistic barriers, allowing me to live and connect with life fully.
In my travels, I often saw and felt the pain of the oppressed and disadvantaged in society—sights that made a profound impression on me. I was having difficulty expressing my concern for the inequalities I was witnessing. It was then that an urge to work towards healing and empowering individuals, regardless of cultural backgrounds, became my only way forward.
A passionate student of equanimity, I search for inner freedom with equilibrium and have developed my own modality to re-educate individuals in need. Journeying with authenticity, I use our three best friends: gravity, space, and breath. My passion for evolving my understanding of life continues to grow, deepening my personal development. My wish is to facilitate movement with global integrity.
Accreditations
I am qualified in Alexander Technique, Time Therapy, Meditation and Systemic Constellation.
Believing that different individuals require and respond to different forms of support, I not only utilise the principles of the modalities in which I’ve formally trained but also integrate work that bridges modern science, anatomy, neurology, and the biomechanics of the self. My passion for understanding evolution continues to grow, and I embrace my creative process by finding the rhythm and spiralling flow in my own dancing. My wish is to facilitate the movement of health with global integrity.
I’ve been a member of the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (STAT) since 1991, becoming a certified professional in 1995. In 1997, I achieved MRSS certification of professional competence in Shiatsu in the UK. After studying with Manuel Schoch for 10 years, I gained my accreditation in Time Therapy/modern meditation from the Tune In Institute in Zurich in 2002. Continuing my meditation studies, I received a diploma in relational mindfulness and the liminal mind from the Karuna Institute in Devon in 2017.
To deepen my knowledge in family and systemic constellation, I studied with the Centre for Systemic Constellation in London and attended the applied training for constellation facilitation. I am now a member of the International Systemic Constellation Association.
I am a registered member of Constellators International.
YOUR JOURNEY TO WHOLENESS
I offer life changing and liberating experiences through processes such as Theory U, the Alexander Technique, Systemic Constellation and Modern Meditation in order to continuously awaken self awareness and resources that strengthen our resilience to the fast changing world.
In finding love and acceptance for ourselves, we recover our inherent sense of integrity and the outer experiences change. Through inquiry and interrelation processes, we open up with curiosity and create Internal coherence. We come into presence and experience intimate unity. We create order in our lives.
Our life experiences shape our sense of our value. With a willingness to feel, we reclaim ourselves.
What is Theory U coaching?
Theory U is a process that teaches us to become our own agents for the future.
We invite awareness to look at developed patterns of habit and preconceived ideas of behaviour. We awaken to and feel into our internal storylines. Every story creates micro-movements in all directions. Through stories, we’re informed of our interpretation of what is and what was. We stay curious in order to deepen our knowing. By gently paying attention to ourselves from the awareness of the body, we begin to hear how our stories affect our lives, heal our psychic wounds and manifest our deepest desires.
Our intention is to sit with what is hidden in between the lines of the stories told, unraveling the direction of where, how and what is emerging. We undertake a journey of exploration, creating our vision towards and into the future. We learn to listen to the otherness, to how collective world events influence us.
Connecting, Manifesting and Belonging. Our aim is to be informed with awakened emotional intelligence, enabling intention and action towards our vision of humanity at its best. We create opportunities for ourselves in our worlds; our relationships, and our organisations. We are reminded that we all have a common goal to live at ease with ourselves and others.
How I can help
If you have a project in mind and would like a coaching session to clarify and activate your plan, I can assist through the modalities of Theory U.
The process begins with an initial consultation (either online or in person) to determine what is the best way forward for you. You’ll describe your current situation and your vision.
We’ll look at what you would like to learn and explore what you need to let go of in order to move forward.
My input will help guide you through the challenges you encounter. I listen and focus on images, feelings and behaviors that are stimulated by your circumstances. We will reflect together through a generative dialogue leading to a better awareness of your journey and to clarify your intended outcome.
If you would like to find out more about how Theory U coaching can help you, please contact me to discuss further.
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If you would like to find out more about Theory U coaching, please see this excellent video from the Systems Innovation YouTube channel:
What is the Alexander Technique?
The Alexander Technique is a method of re-education of the body and mind. It teaches balance and coordination through verbal instruction and the use of the practitioner’s hands. In daily life we place a high demand on the mind and body, resulting in overly contracted muscles and distorted posture. The aim is to become aware of the way we think and move in our everyday activities. Through this awareness, we can reduce or eliminate the causes of pain and tension.
Practising the Alexander Technique will help improve the use of the body. We sometimes accept our misuse as normal, not realising the extent to which we are contributing to our own physical discomfort and stress.
It brings clarity to our thinking and gives us space to manage the stresses of daily life. The Alexander Technique has been taught for over a century and improves not only your breathing but also builds confidence as we re-align with our innate poise and movement. As the body transforms back to its natural posture, health and well-being are enhanced, helping you discover a new balance by releasing all that is unnecessary.
How I can help
This technique can help with back pain, alignment, post-operative, recurring injury, and can also be of use in dealing with symptoms of Parkinson’s, MS, ME and nervous system distress or simply to improve posture.
The process begins with an initial consultation (either online or in person) to determine what is the best way forward for you, and how best to be of help.
The sessions will call attention to how you perform daily functions of sitting, standing and walking – for example, are you aware of how your feet meet the ground or whether you collapse when seated?
My hands can guide you to find better neuromuscular ease as we work together. These changes can also allow the mind to become quieter and reduce our anxiety.
A minimum of five lessons is usually suggested to acquaint you with the essence of F. M. Alexander’s beneficial practice.
If you would like to find out more about how the Alexander Technique can help you, please contact me to discuss further.
Find out more
If you would like to find out more about the Alexander Technique, please see this excellent video from the Alexander Technique Video YouTube channel:
What is Modern Meditation?
Modern Meditation returns us to the subtle energies and integration of the self, creating experiential synthesis.
Our minds question our life’s purpose, searching for answers. In our curiosity we invite exploration of feelings and how we respond to them.
When we use our innate capacity for attention in the present moment, we evolve our awareness, so that we attune our connectedness with ourselves to the world and its elements. Without such awareness, we stay blind to the impact of our thinking in our experience, realising that we do not see the world as it is but as we think. Through awareness of the breath, we invite our patience. We respect our experience while shining light on patterns of thoughts so we can begin to fully appreciate the potential that is present in our life. It is an invitation to widen the circle of compassion, committing to recognizing co-existence where mutual respect, honesty and social justice arise spontaneously.
We build inner strength and healing happens without having to do anything else except being present and observant. As such, it is a more internal process which complements both The Alexander Technique and Energy Work. Sitting is simple and rewarding as the mind learns how to rest.
How I can help
If you would like to learn to practise meditation, I am happy to offer a free introduction as a personal one-on-one session or in an on-line group setting.
The process begins with an initial consultation (either online or in person) to determine what is the best way forward for you, and how best to be of help.
If you would like to find out more about how Modern Meditation can help you, please contact me to discuss further.
What is Systemic Constellation?
Systemic Constellation is a process that inquires into the origin of our discomfort. This work is more verbal and dynamically engaged with our emotions and conditioning. Often repeated patterns of behaviour or illnesses belong to the history of our ancestral family, our social, cultural and/or geographical field.
By engaging with all the characters of our dramas, giving them a voice and a space in the system, we can see the full picture of what the situation requires in order to be released. We witness transactions enacted in our dynamic physical relationships, while allowing the quiet space necessary for every voice to be heard, seen and honoured. We give directions to the system to change, to move forwards and leave behind what no longer serves us, allowing growth and transformation to happen.
How I can help
Systemic Constellation is a means of revealing your personal story to gain access to irrefutable truths such as: “I am my mother and father’s daughter” in order to untangle our own experiences from the familial stories and stories of our ancestors and the family we married into so we gain understanding of the effect on our present conditions.
Once everything and everyone is acknowledged in the scenario, the experience of synthesis and sense of unquestionable belonging is established and healing happens organically.
The process begins with an initial consultation (either online or in person) to determine what is the best way forward for you and how best I can assist you. Please contact me if you would like to find out more about how Systemic Constellation work can be of service to you.
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Healing
When we fall and the veil of composure drops away, grace can help us meet life as it comes with ease, equanimity and courage.
My aim is to help individuals achieve a state of being from which their body is able to heal itself, returning to a natural balance as quickly as possible: For minor aches and pains to disappear; to resolve the cause of persistent headaches; to become aware of habits leading to muscular pain and injury; to alleviate pain or distress from illness and disease.
Supportive
Grace conveys the meaning of a mood without words, we establish silent communication using the minimum of movement and expression.
In addition to the physical aspects of our body-use, we must consider the balance and well-being of our mind. My work helps individuals to achieve an inner stillness, from which we learn to breathe and apply movement. This results in an overall harmony, unifying mind and body, giving us space to deal with the challenges life sets before us. We develop an openness to our inner voices, our feelings and movements in relationship to others, requiring only the willingness to listen and to experiment.
Ethical
Allowing the other to be a legitimate other is the only emotion that expands intelligence.
Being ethical matters to me. Fairness and neutrality of one’s thoughts and feelings are the most important elements. It does not matter who we are or where we come from or have been. We think about our planet as we think about our own bodies, our dreams, our families and our groups or community.
Retreats
I hold intensive retreats during the summer from May to August, in private locations in UK and in Italy at the Joy centre in the val Pellice, north of Turin city. I create a programme that meet the needs of your organisation or your own persona.
You choose your dates and together we will create a stimulating and rejuvenating retreat where you will be invited to set an intention for transformation as you: immerse yourself, with time allowing space to think with clarity, nourish your body, mind and spirit with new experiences. Integrate hands-on Alexander Technique and Modern Meditation, clear patterns of behaviour that don’t serve you through observation of feelings with systemic constellation. Transform your stress, fatigue and pain into a balanced, healthy lifestyle.
We will awaken sensations through set forms of movements. The forms will encourage the physical body to open, connecting our inner feelings to our outer relationship with the environment, realigning our intentions and our actions: the thinking mind will respond to these forms of movement according to ingrained habitual patterns of reaction. This will bring attention to the present moment and allow our awareness to develop the use of directed orientation of movement. In this way we will challenge those habitual patterns and allow a new experience of freedom in movement to develop, freeing ourselves from patterns causing aches, pains and stress. When necessary we will observe responses to strong emotions and use Systemic Constellation to clear while honouring what no longer serve us. Our aim is to invite awareness, as the mind lets go of preconceived ideas of how to be, the body reawakens to the present moment.
The mental health benefits from developing inner and outer integrity changes how we functions as new neural pathways are created and a sense of harmony is experienced and the healing we seek naturally occurs. Our work deepens in substance as we connect to a greater sense of present stillness.Whether you are new or experienced in the world of Alexander’s principle, movement Shiatsu and Meditation, no matter where you are in your life, this process will be “meeting you where you are at,” and naturally guiding you to your full potential for expression. Your only need is to be open to time and to welcoming of the unknown. We will meet in a group, for a minimum of 4 to 6 hours each day, morning and late afternoon for a long week-end from Friday evening to Sunday or a full week starting on Thursday afternoon to Wednesday evening.
Testimonials
Events
I regularly run group workshops incorporating Alexander Technique, Meditation and Systemic Constellation, both in person at my Twickenham Studio and online. All of my workshops are priced to accommodate all needs, and vary from low to moderate to generous.
