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Trying To Shut Down Alexander Technique Historian Jeroen Staring
A few months ago, I did this interview with Jeroen Staring ([email protected]) via email: How has the Alexander community reacted to your work? Is there a certain type of mind that reacts with interest to your work and another type … Continue reading
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How The Alexander Technique Can Enhance Psycho-Therapy
Juliet Carter is a psycho-therapist and Alexander teacher in London. Britain has several psycho-therapists who are also Alexander teachers. I don’t know of any such combo in the States. The Alexander Technique is better known in Britain and in Israel … Continue reading
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Can You Teach Yourself Alexander Technique?
In Australia in 1891, the actor F.M. Alexander developed such severe voice trouble that his career was threatened. According to the Alexander myth, F.M. could find no help so he eventually sat himself down in a room filled with mirrors … Continue reading
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Is Running An Alexander Technique Training Course The Path To Riches?
F.M. Alexander began instructing teachers in his methods with great reluctance. He did not do it to further his technique as much as to make money. During the Great Depression, his private students dried up. So he realized he’d have … Continue reading
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Alexander Technique’s Dreadful Branding
Author Michael Gelb, the world’s most famous Alexander Technique teacher, says to Direction Journal: “Alexander Technique has had a dreadful exercise in branding itself over the last 30 years. The work is more valuable than ever.” “It’s hard for Alexander … Continue reading
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Jeroen Staring – Historian Of The Alexander Technique
I did this interview with Jeroen Staring ([email protected]) via email: How and when did you become interested in F.M. Alexander and the Alexander Technique? I first learned of the Alexander Technique in 1979 while on an investigation for my (anthropology) … Continue reading
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When You Feel Like You Must Get Something Done Right Away, What Does That Do To Your Physiology?
Most people respond to thinking they must accomplish a task quickly by shortening their stature, tensing and compressing their necks, taking shallower breaths, their heart racing, anxiety flying, and overall going into a version of the fight or flight reflex. … Continue reading
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