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Tag Archives: alexander technique teachers
Common Mistakes Alexander Technique Teachers Make With Their Websites
I was listening to Robert Rickover list off mistakes: * Putting skeletons on your website. * Using jargon such as “inhibition” or “primary control” or “constructive conscious control” and the like. * Putting up photos of the teacher with his … Continue reading
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The Ambivalent Relationship Between Alexander Technique And Mainstream Healthcare
Alexander Technique does not claim to cure disease. It does not pretend to be a therapy. Instead, it is an educational technique for learning to move the way the body likes to move. I’m reading an interesting British study of … Continue reading
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How To Sit Comfortably
Ann Rodiger is an Alexander Technique teacher in New York City and the author of How to Sit Your Body at Work: A guide to sitting at your workstation based on the Alexander Technique. Robert Rickover interviews her. Robert: “A … Continue reading
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John F. Kennedy’s Bad Back
The new miniseries “The Kennedys” (available on instant streaming at Netflix) shows President John F. Kennedy struggling with a bad back. In episode four (10:36 in), he does a classic Alexander Technique exercise — semi supine aka active rest. He … Continue reading
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My Online Alexander Technique Kingdom
If you Google “Alexander Technique,” you’re going to quickly run into numerous essays, websites and videos of mine. Is this because I am one of the world’s great Alexander Technique teachers? No. It’s because my work shows up well in … Continue reading
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I Want To Move To Hawaii
There are no Alexander Technique teachers in Hawaii. I’ll have the market all to myself. My mentors warn me against the move. They say there’s not a sufficient market there to support me in the style to which I have … Continue reading
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Alexander Technique Brings Me Tranquility At The Shabbos Table
I have Shabbos lunch with friends. I’ve known them for about a decade but haven’t been to their home in a year. “What’s the matter, Luke?” asks the hostess at the end of the meal. “You haven’t said anything inappropriate … Continue reading
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Why Are Alexander Technique Teachers So Insecure?
Robert Rickover writes in vol 2 issue 1 of Direction Journal (I’m highlighting parts of his essay below): London teacher Kri Ackers said: "The thing to remember about Alexander teachers is that we’re all insecure as hell." Why is this? … Continue reading
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His Kids Said No
Walter Carrington was one of the great Alexander Technique teachers along with his recently deceased wife Dilys. The couple pushed Alexander Technique so hard on their kids that all three of them turned against it.
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The Racism Of F. Matthias Alexander
Aussie F.M. Alexander invented the Alexander Technique, which I study for three hours a day. I was reading through his book "Man’s Supreme Inheritance" (initially published in 1910) because I heard there were some naughty bits. What a motherlode I … Continue reading
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