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We will be updating this section of the Alexander Studio website with notes written by Anthony Kingsley. If you have any questions about the items below, please don't hesitate to contact us directly.
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We enable the pupil to recover a condition of harmony and ease. This can be applied to any position and any movement. ...
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We are not attempting to usurp nature. We don't teach people how to move or breathe. We have faith in the innate capacity of the individual. All an Alexander Teacher can do is to help liberate what al ...
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How can an Alexander Teacher define the Technique? Is the Alexander Technique an Education or a Therapy? Should Alexander Teachers sit on a register of complementary therapists such as the CNHC as we ...
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It's all very easy to talk about free hips, efficient movement and better posture. And it is important to know how to adopt good mechanical positions at work and play. In limited and partial Alexander ...
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The Primary Control that Alexander discovered is usually seen as the primacy of the relationship of the Neck, Head and Back in human functioning. In fact, Alexander does relate his discovery to the wo ...
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The idea of non-doing has frequently been misused in the Alexander world to advise a certain kind of passivity. We are encouraged "not to do anything", not to make plans, not to have ambitions and asp ...
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Inhibition is often confused with a kind of putting on the breaks, and coming to an emergency halt. This is not the case. Inhibition is like a muscle in the brain that needs practice in order to devel ...
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Can we really describe the experience of The Alexander Process? The dangers of our attempts to describe this process is that we end up reducing the Technique to a set of measurable and limited outcome ...
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The Alexander Teacher is not a mechanic. The role of the Teacher is not to fix this or that symptom or problem. It may appear like that to the casual observer. And indeed, in our increasingly regulato ...
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A common misunderstanding in the Alexander world is that pupils should spend time thinking about their necks and backs. There is a confusion about content and quality of thinking. The Alexander Techni ...
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You can't know a thing via an instrument that is faulty. That is the way most of us are. Our habits of tension and distortion feel right to us. Our sensory awareness is inaccurate, and does not offer ...
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At the beginning of lessons, pupils often feel that they are not making progress and sometimes even report feeling that they are getting worse. It is common for pupils to register patterns of distorti ...
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Even though most people see the Alexander Technique as a postural technique, it is in fact a mind-body technique. Alexander himself termed his work a reeducation of the psychophysical self. This is a ...
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It may be true that the Alexander Technique promotes a stillness and alertness of mind. The problem arises if the pupil attempts to achieve this quality directly. Any trying to achieve a specific resu ...
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It may look like the Alexander Teacher uses his or her hands to convey information. This is really only half of the story. The hands do of course make contact with the pupil. But the communication is ...
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There is a lot of confusion in the Alexander world about so-called different styles of teaching. Every Alexander Teacher should strive to be themselves, and not to imitate another teacher. It does not ...
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Gravity is a great friend in the Alexander Technique. In fact, the idea that gravity is an enemy to be fought against, causes all sorts of problems. A classic case of this is the mistaken sense that y ...
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We were all told that, 'if at first you don't succeed, try, try and try again'.
The Alexander Technique says:
'If at first you don't succeed, stop trying'.
In other wo ...
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The role of an Alexander Teacher is to move the pupil towards self-management and autonomy. Unlike treatments, the Alexander Technique is a process of education. Pupils progressively learn how to look ...
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"When people are wrong, the thing which is right is bound to be wrong to them."
- F M Alexander
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