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Articles: alexander technique
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A Balanced Life
by Dorothy Rowe
Regular contributor Dorothy Rowe describes her experience of the Alexander Technique, having received her first Alexander lesson from her friend, Jeannie MacLean, an experienced teacher.
Alexander Self-Help
by Nicholas Brockbank
FM Alexander, who developed the Alexander Technique, was self-taught and, although it is easier to learn the technique with a teacher, there are self-help steps that can be taken to achieve a change in poor postural habits.
Alexander Technique and Swimming
by Steven Shaw
From my lessons in the Alexander Technique I learned that the biggest obstacle to change is that habitual patterns of behaviour normally feel right to us and changing them often feels wrong. For me, swimming with tension felt comfortable and swimming with less effort felt uncomfortable and wrong.
Alexander Technique Teacher Training
by Jonathan Dean MSTAT
"How long does it take to become an Alexander teacher?" is a question people often ask, and when I reply that it's a three-year, full-time training, it usually meets with some degree of surprise. Perhaps because people tend to associate the Technique with posture, and assume that this is something that can be 'corrected' fairly quickly, there is an expectation that one should be able to train to teach the Technique in a comparatively short space of time. So: why does it take so long? What goes on in a training? What exactly is the Alexander Technique about?
Arm Rest
by Joel Carbonnel
The attainment of uprightness was a decisive factor in the evolution of the hominids, the family to which we belong. Walking upright freed the hands and the arms from their former locomotor functions. The 'emancipation of the upper limb' was great progress. But have you ever wondered how you assume this freedom?
Morphology and the Alexander Technique
by Joel Carbonnel
In Body Awareness, F Pierce Jones remarks that "...use determines functioning" might be considered "Alexander's law". The problem with the law thus stated is that it is incomplete insofar as it leaves out an essential part of the equation.
The Alexander Technique
by Lucy Grant
In this article I would like to go over the main themes that form the foundation of the Alexander Technique, and explain them to you in a way that I hope will make them clear, and demonstrate their pertinence for all of us today.
The Alexander Technique: Indispensable for Optimum Health
by Annie Kaszina with Madelene Webb
If you were given the option of acquiring an indispensable strategy for optimum health, what would stop you from doing so? ..."You can have anything you want in life, but you do have to pay… attention"...
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