http://www.alexander-technique-london.co.uk We will be updating this section of the site as regularly as possible with notes on the Alexander Technique, and related topics. If you have any questions about the notes below, please don't hesitate to contact us directly. You can't know a thing via an instrument that is faulty. That is the way most of us are. Our habits of tension and distortion feel right to us. Our sensory awareness is inaccurate, and does not offer http://www.alexander-technique-london.co.uk/alexander_technique_notes.php?note=106 At the beginning of lessons, pupils often feel that they are not making progress and sometimes even report feeling that they are getting worse. It is common for pupils to register patterns of distorti http://www.alexander-technique-london.co.uk/alexander_technique_notes.php?note=105 Even though most people see the Alexander Technique as a postural technique, it is in fact a mind-body technique. Alexander himself termed his work a reeducation of the psychophysical self. This is a http://www.alexander-technique-london.co.uk/alexander_technique_notes.php?note=104 It may be true that the Alexander Technique promotes a stillness and alertness of mind. The problem arises if the pupil attempts to achieve this quality directly. Any trying to achieve a specific resu http://www.alexander-technique-london.co.uk/alexander_technique_notes.php?note=103 It may look like the Alexander Teacher uses his or her hands to convey information. This is really only half of the story. The hands do of course make contact with the pupil. But the communication is http://www.alexander-technique-london.co.uk/alexander_technique_notes.php?note=102 There is a lot of confusion in the Alexander world about so-called different styles of teaching. Every Alexander Teacher should strive to be themselves, and not to imitate another teacher. It does not http://www.alexander-technique-london.co.uk/alexander_technique_notes.php?note=86 Gravity is a great friend in the Alexander Technique. In fact, the idea that gravity is an enemy to be fought against, causes all sorts of problems. A classic case of this is the mistaken sense that y http://www.alexander-technique-london.co.uk/alexander_technique_notes.php?note=75 We were all told that, 'if at first you don't succeed, try, try and try again'.
The Alexander Technique says:
'If at first you don't succeed, stop trying'.

In other wo http://www.alexander-technique-london.co.uk/alexander_technique_notes.php?note=74 The role of an Alexander Teacher is to move the pupil towards self-management and autonomy. Unlike treatments, the Alexander Technique is a process of education. Pupils progressively learn how to look http://www.alexander-technique-london.co.uk/alexander_technique_notes.php?note=73