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Tag Archives: alexander technique teachers
Here’s Where You’re Wrong!
Fewer than one percent of the world’s Alexander Technique teachers teach the Technique full-time (more than 25 hours a week). Almost all Alexander teachers have fewer pupils than they’d like. Alexander pupils are scarce and therefore particularly precious to the … Continue reading
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Alexander Teachers Spend Raucous Afternoon Validating Each Other
LOS ANGELES, CA—According to witnesses, a tight-knit group of twenty five Alexander Technique teachers spent a wild afternoon in Reseda Sunday, overindulging in emotionally supportive behavior and generally validating the living heck out of each other. Confirming the women get … Continue reading
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I’m Thinking About Moving To Taiwan
This thriving country of 23 million has no Alexander Technique teachers. I should clean up! Email me if you’d like an Alexander lesson in Taiwan for US$100. Maybe I’ll pay a visit. On the down side, there are only about … Continue reading
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Growing Old With Grace
Lifelong habits become more pronounced the older we are. I notice that many people I know in their 30s are already old. They’re stiff. They move awkwardly. They fall down too much. They’re locked into certain habits of thinking and … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander technique teachers, chronic tension, ear canals, excess tension, growing old with grace, robert rickover
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The Fierce Struggle For Purity
Today is the first day of Hanukkah, a minor eight-day Jewish holiday that gets a lot of press because it falls near the end of the Western calendar year and is thought of by the goyim as the Jews’ version … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander teachers, alexander technique teachers, christmas hanukkah, first day of hanukkah, Google, maccabbees
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Alexander Technique For Men
I think there are two female Alexander Technique teachers for every male teacher and the organized Alexander world (AMSAT, ATI) is disproportionately female led. I find myself often teaching differently to men than to women. With my more sensitive students, … Continue reading
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Interview With Paul Cook Of Direction Journal
Paul Cook is the most successful of the new breed of Australian Alexander Technique teachers. Paul lives on the Gold Coast and owns Direction Journal. Luke: “I remember working with someone from [this] Alexander school and she said they were … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander teacher, alexander teachers, alexander technique teachers, macdonald school, patrick macdonald, suburban melbourne
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Why Are So Many Alexander Technique Teachers Jewish?
Veteran Alexander teacher Frank Ottiwell made a stray remark about training with Judy Leibowitz in New York in 1958 with a “dozen Jews.” (Cited in this interview with Brooke Lieb.) That made me wonder why so many Alexander teachers are … Continue reading
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Jeroen Staring Should Be Essential Reading For All Alexander Technique Teachers
A practice student of mine says: The Jeroen Staring stuff seems like it should almost be compulsory Alexander Technique reading just because he does such an awesome entertaining study of the whole “physical culture” movement that F.M. Alexander emerged from, … Continue reading
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Back Pain Solutions – A Chat With Author Bruce Kodish
Physical therapist and Alexander Technique teacher Bruce Kodish is the author of the book Back Pain Solutions. Luke: What are the differences between physical therapists and Alexander Technique teachers? Bruce: “Physical therapists tend to be more cut and dried. They’re … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander technique teacher, alexander technique teachers, ed bouchard, f m alexander, kodish, veteran teacher
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