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The First Book Ever Written About The Alexander Technique
Ironically the first and best book on Alexander’s work may have been written 2400 years before Alexander was born, and may still be the best guide for pointing us in the “right direction.” I’ve spent...
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Putting Your Foot In Your Mouth
Passage 55 from Where This Path Begins… Babies don’t interfere with themselves. Babies don’t judge, correct, or evaluate themselves. They can’t make a mistake, Because they don’t know what it means to...
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Only Two Kinds Of People
Photo: B. Fertman Passage Fifty-Three From Where This Path Begins There are two kinds of people. Foxes and Hedgehogs. Foxes dig lots of shallow holes, spreading out all over the place. Their coats are...
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Elisabeth Walker
with love from the Fertman Family and from The Alexander Alliance Video
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The World In A Dewdrop
Photo: B. Fertman It’s uncanny. You start working with a person doing some simple activity, like eating an apple. You slow it all down. You give someone a chance to sense how they’re doing what...
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Don’t Believe A Word I Say
Photo: B. Fertman Three Where Do They All Come From Arrogance leads to loneliness. Greediness to loss. Give to others and you will not be poor. Serve the people who serve you. Work under those who work...
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Most Inner Of Rooms
Photo: B. Fertman Daitoku-ji Revisited Twenty-five years ago I first entered the gates of Daitoku-ji, one of the most beautiful Zen Temple in Japan, known for its rock gardens. Today I returned, and...
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Remembering What I Frequently Forget
From a new student at the Alexander Alliance Germany upon finishing her first Retreat…When I read letters like this I suddenly remember what I frequently forget. I remember why I first began studying,...
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A Definition Of The Alexander Technique For Emerging Alexander Teachers
Our Essential Task (From a graduation speech given to the Alexander Alliance graduating class of 1991, written in the long, infamous style of F. Matthias Alexander. Revealing footnotes included.) Our...
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The Theology Of Touch
Photo: B. Fertman Going Blind Only the blind can see. Only the deaf can hear. Only the hungry are fed. Touch this world. Only the blind can see. Listen to yourself not thinking. Only the deaf can...
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Death And The Alexander Technique
Death Warmed Over When we’re born, we’re soft and supple. In youth, we’re firm and strong. We age. We lose some flexibility. We lose some strength. When we’re very old, we get creaky and stiff. The...
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The Letter
Yuki’s a quiet, young woman. She’s larger than most Japanese women, but manages to move through the world unseen. Her eyes look almost hot, as if they’re burning inside. Sitting there in class,...
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Fluid Life
Photo: B. Fertman Twenty-One • Drenched To The Bone Sponge-like. The more it receives, The softer and larger it becomes. Soaking, Seeping, Saturating. Permeable. Permeating. Gray, Dark, Dim. Vital....
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Bummed Out
Photo: B. Fertman Holidays do not always bring joy and good cheer. Visiting relatives we can’t relate to, whose values conflict with ours. Not having relatives to visit. Missing people who were once in...
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Visceral Love
Photo: B. Fertman Gravity. George Clooney was still Up In The Air, but this time he was way, way up in the air, and dressed in a space costume. Saundra Bullock was good, for sure. But it doesn’t matter...
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Masters of Gravity – Kan Sensei and Michael Sensei
Rabbi Abraham Heschel said, “You cannot know one religion unless you know two.” I’d say the same when it comes to somatically-based practices as well. I forged a career as an Alexander Technique...
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Understanding Human Directionality: Advanced Training for Alexander Trainees...
Alexander said, “Prevent the things you’ve been doing, and you are half way home.” This implies that Alexandrian inhibition takes you half way home, and that a deep understanding of directionality...
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Give Me Two Good Reasons Why…
…I Should Go To Coyote, New Mexico. Okay. Here they are. First Good Reason There’s an old man living in Coyote, New Mexico who’s been teaching human movement for over 50 years, studying the Alexander...
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Autobiography Of A Renegade Alexander Teacher
Bruce Fertman 1971 My mind rains down memories thought long forgotten. There was this kid, Fred, in my junior high school. I can’t remember his last name. There was something I liked about him. He was...
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