Alexander, "we use high tonus for effort, and medium tonus or low tonus for rest and sleep. In Eutony, we learn to use the best tonus for the action in question." In the development of Eutony, Gerda Alexander was deeply concerned with a pedagogical approach that could support the experience of tonus modulation by the person's own experience as a living body. Eutony is based in a student-centered learning process, where sensorial experience and critical reflection are the basis for learning. She postulated that "it is important, in treatment, not to give and do more than is necessary, so that the other can rely on himself. It is not that I am a great master who gives you help. Rather, I can introduce you to my work for your own self-discovery." The processes iniciated by her classes were reported by her students, recognizing benefits in their psychic well-being and in their daily life, and Gerda began to receive medical referrals and make partnerships with medical centers, treating patients that “specialists could not give any hope of improvement" as paraplegic, spastic, amputees, with psychosomatic cases, among others. Scientific theories came a posteriori to support her practices, specially with the discovery of Gama System, as she describes "from that time, new finding in neurophysiology have become an important support of our work, and our practical discoveries can be explained step by step". The Gerda Alexander School Gerda Alexander opened a school in Copenhagen in 1939 by the name of "Gerda Alexander Skolen". The professional training in Eutony includes subjects as: Eutony (practice and theory, pedagogy and therapy), speech training, psychology, anatomy, physiology, neurology, neurophysiology, neuropathology, psychiatry and visiting seminars form specialists about current development in neurophysiology and other relevant disciplines. In 1957, the school got state technical college recognition, with a three to four years training with diploma. The school was officially closed in 1985 by the name of "International Centre of Eutonia". Active schools of Eutony professional training Argentina: Asociación Argentina y Latinoamericana de Eutonía (AALE) Austria: Eutonie-Akademie Belgium: L’Ecole Belge d’Eutonie Gerda Alexander (EBEGA) Brazil: Instituto Brasileiro de Eutonia France: L’Ecole Française d’Eutonie Gerda Alexander (EFEGA) Germany: Eutonie-Akademi Bremen Germany: EUTONIE INSTITUT Barbara Franco Palacio Switzerland: Eutonie Zentrum Schweiz Gerda's book and translations - edited and supplemented by Karin Schaefer References Further reading External links Original photos: Gerda Alexander (Danish or German subtitles) Danish philosophers Danish schoolteachers People in alternative