Many thanks to Jen Elkeles of London who raised this question and then suggested my answer might form a helpful blog post. There are several strands to this story. It begins with a lesson I was having with Peggy Williams, … Continue reading →
In one of his lectures at the 2004 Alexander International Congress, Walter Carrington suggested we could all benefit from frequently asking ourselves these two questions: 1. Where am I? 2. Where am I going? The first question helps to ground … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →