The Fiction of Alexander Technique

June 15, 2010 in News

Yes folks, Alexander himself has appeared in two works of fiction:

FM Alexander teaching

the best known is Aldous Huxleys’ Eyeless in Gaza. You can read all about this and others at http://alexandertechnique.com/ats/fiction/

One day there will be a book or play all set around the work. But I haven’t finished it yet….

You can also see a short film excert of Alexander on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbeXjewVmME Very raunchy picture behind him!

Leonardo diCaprio: OCD and Alexander Technique

August 19, 2010 in News

Jeffrey M Schwartz in The Mind and the Brain writes of his studies on patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. He has successfully helped them by asking them to consiously inhbit the brain circuitry that creates the disorder and giving them the direction or instruction to do something else to create a new neural pathway. He claims this [...]
Teachers Workshop

July 25, 2010 in News

Just finished a fun and succesful week working withe 6 teachers/trainees on Alonnisos. Here’s what one of the participants wrote: I find it difficult to put into words what I feel about the week we have just spent with you. I will find the words, of course and I will write an article and feed [...]
Podcasts on the Alexander Technique

July 12, 2010 in News

There are some vey good audio interviews with practitioners of Ally Teck on different aspects of the Technique. www.bodylearningcast.com the latest one is by David Gorman, who trained me. Go listen!