Hello friends, family, students, and anyone curious about the Alexander Technique! I am launching this blog to create a space for communal discourse about the joys and frustrations of learning the Alexander Technique. My hope is that many of you will visit regularly to post your own questions, tips, requests for clarification, and success stories. Let’s make this THE place to go on the web for discussion of the Alexander Technique!
This is the place to brag about how the AT helped you nail your last audition….or to wash the dishes last night without bringing on your sciatica. It’s the place to admit that you don’t fully understand Alexander’s terminology of “head forward and up”--OK, I admit it!--and to ask your fellow AT pilgrims for help in sorting it all out. It’s the place to ask how the AT could help you with some problem you’ve been experiencing...and to respond to such questions out of your own experience.
You can help to create a body of anecdotal data about learning the AT: Post an entry about what you learned in today’s lesson. Post an observation about yourself--a habit you recognized, a weird pain that developed temporarily between your shoulders, a belief that changed. Post a story about your experience in doing your homework. Post a follow-up question for further exploration. After a number of lessons--2? 10? 50?--post a description of how your life has changed. Post your original reasons for taking AT lessons. Post your goals for your upcoming 2, 10, or 50 lessons.
I intend to post responses to all questions within 48 hours, unless the number of postings grows beyond my ability to respond that quickly. (Please make this happen!) I hope that many others of you will feel moved to chime in with your own opinions, wisdom, and experience, making this blog a true community project.
I will review all postings before they are uploaded to weed out inappropriate material from spammers or crackpots. (If you register and create an account, you can post without review.) All legitimately AT-related postings will be uploaded exactly as you submit them, as long as you conform to these basic standards:
1. Write--at least indirectly--about the Alexander Technique.
2. Respect your fellow posters.
Thank you for visiting--please come back soon! In a day or so I will post instructions, including a video, for an Alexander procedure you can do at home.
