Why are the orders of movements changing (all the times)? Recently, Student “I.” renewed her lessons after a year without contact with me. She found that I requested her to change a series of orders of movement I had given her to project previously in an activity of readjustment designated to assume [...]
The Model we Use Download the Pdf: The Model we Use Recently, on the private forum managed by my students, C. proposed to study statistically how badly F.M. Alexander was employing his technique on all the photographs that show him in the gestures of everyday life. I said that I was not [...]
Download to read the PDF 1. Working to principle when faced with the unusual and the unexpected This paper aims to show how "conscious control", that is, control by guiding our mind with a series of verbal & rational instructions makes it possible to meet the requirement of a [...]
This series of questions was asked via email, after a third lesson, by a new pupil who is not a teacher (nor a student of a training center) of the modern Alexander technique. You could say he is a "lay person", a person who does not have specialised or professional knowledge in the subject. [...]
------------------------ question 1. The method of learning by experiment and working on your own initiative/incentive: it seems to me that it's not only that we learn by doing, solving problems and figuring things out - but it's that this very act of reasoning out movements that is developing and strengthening the higher cognitive functions [...]
————————————question I’m trying to experiment in my everyday activities with the orders that I know so far but I’m afraid that there’s the possibility of over doing it some times and end up with more muscle tensions than before. And from what I knew so far, one main goal of AT is to [...]
Dynamic Poise: how directing the mind rationally can replace old somatic habits of guidance Conscious guidance and control of concerted movements: going back to basics This workshop is about working on oneselfThe participants will not be touched or manipulated as the workshop is about working on oneself with conscious (non-sensory) guidance. with [...]
A question of Conception in our practice of Leaning back or forward with the whole torso: Expanding the torso consciously to the best advantage in the general use of the mechanisms "Now the narrowing and arching of the back already referred to are exactly opposite to what is required by nature, and to [...]
A question of Conception: How to coordinate the movements of the different parts of the torso in Bending the Knees to the best advantage "Every moment you have to balance yourself. As you move, you have no hands on you. The only difference you can make is in how you organize yourself from [...]
Q1. Mh. You said "Self-speech is central to both self regulation and self preservation", I don't understand the link between these two. A1. Before explaining the link Alexander described between the two concepts, it is important to start by defining the first one, the less well known of the two [...]
