Category Archives: Personal

How Tiring Are Alexander Lessons?

I felt great leaving my first Alexander Technique lessons. I felt free and light and happy. Then I noticed myself getting very tired a few hours later. This is normal. You’re relearning how to do everything. You’re relearning how to … Continue reading

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Men And Women From Broken Homes

I’ve never forgotten when pick-up artist Neil Strauss told me he wouldn’t date women from broken homes. They had too much psychological baggage. I was struck by that and thought back over my relationships and I remembered all the turbulence … Continue reading

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My New Pad

I moved in last Saturday night. Most of my room is clear space for studying the sacred text, entertaining women, and teaching Alexander Technique! I have my bedding against one side of the room and my desks and computer against … Continue reading

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My Separate But Equal Approach To Teaching Alexander Technique

“Separate but equal” got a bad rap for its use in American law to defend segregation but there’s nothing wrong with this theory when it is applied outside matters of race. Men and women, for instance, tend to use separate … Continue reading

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That’s End-Gaining!

In some ways, Alexander Technique seems cultish. The way some Alexandroids talk about F.M. Alexander, for example, is indistinguishable from the way Scientologists talk about L. Ron Hubbard. There’s a lot of closed-loop thinking in the Alexander world where the … Continue reading

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