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Wilfred Barlow wrote something of  this in his book The Alexander Principle (used copies available at www.amazon.co.uk)  My colleague Chloe did a study some years ago, asking teachers and trainees how they felt the Alexander Technique had affected their sexual experience. The results, if I remember correctly, were that the women found they were able to articulate more confidently what …

There are a lot of Alexander tweets going on. Is it tweets? Surely not twits…?Tweets on Twitter. Not Twits on Tweeter…..anyway, Alexander Technique is entering the new milennium with gusto…well… a beginning trickle about to become a flood. So just Twitter Alexander Technique and you’ll get lots of info and tweets on it. Great way to …

‘ In the eveining the sky was  clear and completely star-studded- an absolutely amazing sight.’ (He’s in South Africa) ‘And one night I lay outside in semi-supine…and something about being underneath the stars, one couldn;t help but feel spiritual when the whole universe is in your face. And I noticed everything seemed perfect in my …

‘I’m tired almost  all the time….so in the holiday on some nights when I wasn’t going out I lay down in semi-supine shortly before bed….and this seemed to really help me shut down and get to sleep more easily…..I’m going to carry on doing some semi-supine and see if it helps my sleeping.’  Paddy, 18, theatre …

In  the Chrstmas holidays I asked my theatre students to lie down everyday in the balanced resting state and write a two page report on their experiences. As usual there were great realisations and discoveries. This is what Rita wrote: ‘I did it this morning and I was really bored and quite stiff too. I …

New year resolution to change your life? Come to my next set of workshops. Wednesday evenings for 4 weeks from January 13th 8 – 9pm at the Bunhill Meeting House near Old Street London EC1, £60 for the whole course. Only 4 places available. email me on alexpen@onetel.com to book your place.

Every Christmas hols, I set the assignment for all my theatre students: lie down in semi-supine in the balanced resting state everyday during the hols and write a short report on this.  Ido it myself. The first lesson back we share our experience by reading aloud our reports and in a 12-step manner, without judgement or comment. Because …

Wonderfully Victoria Beckham has ‘come out’  as a user of Alexander Technique to help her posture possibly ruined by wearing so many high heels. Brilliant! It’s international. This is probably more publicity than last year when the BMJ article gave the thumbs up to Alexander Technique on extraordinary results for back pain.   You can read …

Don’t you think Advent Calendars are a brilliant way of  not end-gaining? You just have to be in the means whereby and NOT endgain by opening the windows before the date written, otherwise it spoils all the fun. Not so easy when I was younger – I was dying to get to 24 and see the …

Just had a great weekend in Thessaloniki 5/6th December…….Thank you Irini and Angelikki for your hospitality at Studio BodySoul this last weekend and your lovely yoga and pilates students who wanted to find something out about Alexander Technique –     and thanks to Maria  and Sophia from EEME for their hospitality at Kroustofono for a …