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Horse Sense and Sensibility
Waiting for an Alexander Technique lesson Many years ago I showed a copy of the Equitation issue of Direction Journal to Marjorie Barstow, the first person to graduate from the first Alexander...
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When will you finally get it?
Picture this Alexander Technique workshop scene: About 30 people of widely varying ages and experience with the Technique are seated in a circle in a basement classroom of a university music...
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Change Your Tune
I once assisted the late Marjorie Barstow on a teaching trip to a large mid-western university where she gave classes in the Alexander Technique to Music Department faculty and students. In one class,...
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What is the Alexander Technique? – Part 2
This is a question Alexander Technique teachers get all the time, and one I wrote about last January in What is the Alexander Technique? It’s something I keep coming back to. Teachers’ replies to this...
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The F. Matthias Alexander Story – It Ain’t Necessarily So: Part 2
F. Matthias Alexander and Student In my last blog, The F. Mathias Alexander Story – It Ain’t Necessarily So, I wrote that I consider F. Matthias Alexander to have been a genius – but a very different...
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Kami and Marj
Kami and Marj on Marj’s front porch. Marjorie Barstow (Marj) did some of her very best Alexander Technique teaching during the last 25 years of her life. Starting at around 70 years of age, she became...
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Beware of Body Bullies Behaving Badly!
A recent article in the New York Times, When the Bully is the Boss, explores the effects that a bullying leader has on organizations. Not surprisingly, it turns out bullying doesn’t really lead to...
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Smile!
OK, I’m going to confess. I was seduced by a clever bit of click bait titled: Neuroscience Says Doing This 1 Thing Makes You Just as Happy as Eating 2,000 Chocolate Bars. 2000 chocolate bars! I do...
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A Simple Hack That Brings A New Ease Into Your Walking
The late Alexander Technique teacher Marjorie Barstow would sometimes say to a student who was about to walk: “Your legs are just tagging along.” She also had figured out a very simple and effective...
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Is A Picture Worth A Thousand Slurs?
The use of imagery to teach or learn the Alexander Technique is, to put it mildly, a controversial topic. The diverse views were on full display in recent exchanges on the Alexander Technique Forum...
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