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Doing on a non-doing foundation

John Nicholls Alexander Training Posted on June 24, 2021 by JohnMarch 20, 2023

Doing on a Non-Doing Foundation Extract from a work in progress about Alexander teacher training to be published eventually by Mouritz. In FM Alexander’s final book, The Universal Constant in Living, there is an important section headed Withholding Action or … Continue reading →

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Re-educating feeling via thinking

John Nicholls Alexander Training Posted on June 24, 2021 by JohnJune 25, 2021

Short extract from a work in progress about Alexander teacher training to be published eventually by Mouritz. When talking to Walter Carrington about training people to use their hands as Alexander teachers, he emphasised to me that you are learning … Continue reading →

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FM’s descriptions of teaching 5

John Nicholls Alexander Training Posted on November 4, 2020 by JohnMarch 8, 2021

Think, Don’t Do? Back in my early years of teaching at the Constructive Teaching Centre in London, I had a phone call from a young man who wanted to begin having lessons. During the call he said something that might … Continue reading →

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FM’s descriptions of teaching 4

John Nicholls Alexander Training Posted on October 29, 2020 by JohnOctober 29, 2020

Sensory education and going wrong If we go back now to the early part of Chapter III of CCCI, Imperfect Sensory Appreciation, there are two paragraphs in the middle of the second page of the chapter (page 99) which I … Continue reading →

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FM’s descriptions of teaching 3

John Nicholls Alexander Training Posted on October 29, 2020 by JohnOctober 29, 2020

Category Errors Moving on a little in CCCI to the next chapter titled Illustration, we read on page 115 that the orders to the neck to relax to order the head forward and up to lengthen the spine are preventive … Continue reading →

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FM’s descriptions of teaching 2

John Nicholls Alexander Training Posted on October 29, 2020 by JohnOctober 29, 2020

Preventive or Positive Descriptions of giving lessons in FM’s books include some potentially confusing references to guiding orders or directions and whether they are to be treated as inhibitory, or to be kept in mind (“projected”), or to be carried … Continue reading →

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FM’s descriptions of teaching 1

John Nicholls Alexander Training Posted on October 21, 2020 by JohnOctober 21, 2020

This is the first part of several posts stimulated by questions from AT teacher Regina Stratil of Graz, Austria. Some of her questions revolved around the ways in which FM describes giving lessons in his books. This reminded me of … Continue reading →

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Hands on Back of Chair Revisited

John Nicholls Alexander Training Posted on September 24, 2020 by JohnSeptember 24, 2020

This is a way of practicing HoBoC which I find very useful for myself as it can be very energising, and experienced AT people I’ve shown it to have usually also found it quite dynamic and helpful. Describing an experiential … Continue reading →

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Postural support and breathing – an Alexander koan

John Nicholls Alexander Training Posted on June 19, 2020 by JohnJune 20, 2021

Head, neck, back relationship: when your spine supports your head and your rib cage you no longer need to grip your head and your ribs to support your spine. The above insight crystallised in my brain several years ago and … Continue reading →

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Training procedures

John Nicholls Alexander Training Posted on June 19, 2020 by JohnJune 19, 2020

Regarding training procedures for hands on work, I was of course around the Carringtons as one of their everyday assistants for many years and so observed the development of their training procedures. When I began directing a training course myself … Continue reading →

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