Category: Pete’s Blog

It was at the International Congress of the Alexander Technique in Freiburg, Germany that I rather abruptly stopped using the term “faulty sensory appreciation”.  I had walked out of a rather tedious workshop and found myself sitting on a bench outside with Kevan Martin who describes himself as an Alexander Groupy.  I was soon to…

Oh dear!  It’s been over a year……. Here goes with another of my musings on the subject of how one should teach the Alexander Technique. It’s on the general theme of doing and non-doing. Firstly, let me say that I’m defining the undesirable thing that one needs to not do as any distortion of good…

I suppose the time has come to comment on the use of the internet for teaching and propagating the Alexander Technique.  There are many versions of this, videos, Skype sessions, online courses.  Let me say one thing.  Good teaching is good teaching whether you agree with the content or not.  Thus, finding the right words…

It has been fashionable over the years to pose the question, “What is the Alexander Technique?” in the hope of providing a definitive answer.  It was always clear to me that if it took Alexander four books (and some) to answer the question, I was unlikely to  be successful in creating a simple and succinct…

EDIT I’ve been reflecting on a couple of ideas recently.  The reflections are brought about partly by working with students and pupils with particular difficulties, partly from reading the latest STATnews (January 2017) on Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, in particular the articles by Laura Tuthall and Melissa Kelly and partly by memories of the ATI Conference last October.…