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Health Warning for Mobile Phone Users

Dangerous New Symptom

Red Alert!

Half of the planet’s people are at risk of a new epidemic called ‘Cell Phone Elbow’ This is not a joke! We are talking about 3 billi ...



Discover Your Body

The human body is a complex system, interconnected in ways that most of us barely even notice. Hundreds of stimuli from the outside world and within the body are received, processed and responded to a ...



How to Turn Back your Age Clock

None of us is getting any younger. But follow a few simple rules and we really can look and feel more youthful. Jane Feinmann explains how to stop the hands of ...



The Alexander Technique and Emotional Health

I was interested to see an article on the TimesOnline website about the emotional and mental benefits of the Alexander Technique. I am reprinting this article b ...



Self-Help or Self Responsibility?

Alan Yentob cleverly parodies the current trend for quick-fix self-help.

You can’t always get what you want.

By Stuart Mcgurk.



The Alexander Technique is Perfect for our Times

The following article tells us the problem. The Alexander Technique offers us a solution:

How speeding through life could land us in meltdown.
...



On Getting a Pupil's Head to go Forward and Up

By Patrick Macdonald

This essay is not meant to be a comprehensive treatise on how to teach the Alexander Technique. Indeed, the subtle interp ...



An Unrecognised Principle in Human Behaviour

by F M Alexander

…. had been done by those who really believed that in its activity the human organism could be divided into these three separa ...



The Sun and Moon

by Tommy Thompson

Birds ceased to fly, the wind ceased to blow and the temperature dropped; the planet appeared stilled in the non-ordinary. In ...



The Development of the Alexander Technique and its Effects

by Christopher Stevens

The Development of the Alexander Technique and Evidence for its Effects

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The 5 Alexander Principles

by Avi Granit

Concentrating on the lunge, toes, heels, and walking.

Within this workshop I would like to demonstrate the way t ...



The 3 'Ups"

by Avi Granit

During a meeting of Alexander teachers in Tel Aviv, I worked with another teacher. I took the role of the teacher and used my ha ...



Thought and Awareness

By Richard Forrest

Mostly, our thinking – our purposeful, energised thinking, that is - tends to centre on particular things. This manner of th ...



Mindful Eating and the Alexander Technique

by Shirley Wade-Linton

I am currently a 3rd year student at the Alexander Teacher Training School and have become quite fascinated with how the ...



Baylen goes holistic.

by Baylen Leonard

BBC broadcaster and writer, Baylen Leonard, describes his Alexander lessons with Anthony Kingsley:

I'm a hyp ...



On Giving Directions, Doing and Non-Doing

by Patrick I. Macdonald

"The way that can be told is not the real way,
The name that can be spoken - is not the real name."
< ...



Means to Means: The Role of the Alexander Technique in Music

by Malcolm Williamson

In lessons my aim is to create a situation in which music students can make reliable choices regarding their own manner ...



Finding Meaning in one's Work

by Shmuel Nelkin

To renew one's understanding of the truths which Alexander discovered is a recurring need fo ...



The Teaching of F. Mathias Alexander

by Marjory Barlow

These annual lectures were instituted as a memorial to F.M. Alexander. A decade has passed since his death on October 10th 19 ...



Various Quotations on the Alexander Technique

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“Alexander's work is of first class importance and investigation by the medical profession is imperative.”
British Medical Journal
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The Alexander Technique

By Frank Pierce Jones

It may not seem logical to go to an Alexander teacher who can't sing or play an instrument and expect to learn something ...



Three Musicians Conclude their Discussion

by Bill Benham (violin), Melbon Mackie (bassoon) & Joseph Sanders (oboe)

Three Musicians Conclude their Discussion of the Alexander Techni ...



Moving from the Still Point of Support

by Tommy Thompson

Moving from the Still Point of Support. An Interpretation of the Alexander Technique

"At the still point ...



A Musician Exposed - The Alexander Technique and Music

By Cat Jary

As a young girl, music and performing were an absolute joy. Life was full, with as many music related activities as I could possibl ...



Somatic Emotional Therapy - The Work of Stanley Keleman

By Anthony Kingsley

Introduction

Stanley Keleman has developed and is still developing ...



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