Preparing for a long-distance lesson of Conscious guidance and Control

Abstract This article explains how lessons of conscious guidance and control unfold and how to prepare for a first session. The first part explains the disciplinary framework as well as important concepts and principles. The second part describes the practical aspects, price, booking and setting up of the long-distance video application that is [...]

F.M. Alexander and the position of mechanical advantage

Introduction: It is easier to teach if you understand the words you are using Part 1 of the chapter "Notes and Instances" in Man's supreme inheritance, F.M. Alexander's first book, is dedicated to the chapter titled: "What is the correct standing position, and the position of mechanical advantage ?" [...]

Why are the orders of movements changing (all the time)?

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 [...]

Workshop Resume: Working to principle (ATI 2019)

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 [...]

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20191011_Q&A_the task of reasoning out the movements of the parts of the torso

------------------------ 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 [...]

20190705_Q&A_Is there a risk to end up with more tension in the experiments of conscious guidance of the initial Alexander Technique?

————————————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 [...]

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