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House And Home
Rilke’s Letters To A Young Poet Letters To A Young Teacher Bruce, you write, “Aren’t there more direct, fun, practical, and effective ways to work with how we react to stimuli from within and without...
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En Route
It’s a bit embarrassing. But I will tell you anyway. It still thrills me when I post something and a few hundred people, dispersed around the world, read and appreciate what I have to say. Places...
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Meditations On The Sensory World
DaVinci’s Sensus Communis There are three senses most of us know little about. They’re rarely acknowledged or consciously cultivated. They’re vital to us and we could not live without them. They’re...
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The Gift Given
Photo: Holly Sweeny The Gift Given - In Memory of Marjorie Barstow Marj didn’t teach us what she did. She showed us what she did, over and over again. We experienced the results of what she did. We...
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Letters To A Young Teacher – Humility
I was wondering if you have any insight on the difference between ego and confidence. Confidence is the absence of fear. Nothing else. Being cocksure, or hubristic, rises from ego. It’s put on,...
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Letters To A Young Teacher – All That Goodness
Photo: Tada “Anchan” Akihiro Letters To A Young Teacher – Continued… Here’s a question: When there is an absence of fear, what opens up for you? What presents itself? Teach from there. Right now I...
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Homeland
Most people don’t know I’m “half Korean.” They don’t know I spent hours feeding and staring into my Korean babies faces. They grew up feeling they looked like me, and I grew up feeling I looked like...
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The Culmination Of Character
According to Aristotle, the psyche, (meaning soul, breath, animating spirit, mind), is the form of the body, in that it forms the body, is the origin of its movements, and is the body’s final aim and...
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Eva Ehrenberg
Eva with her Alexander Alliance Quilt. For Eva’s family and friends, and for the Alexander Alliance, As the years go by, it becomes ever clearer that the Alexander Alliance is more than a place where...
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The Physiology Of The Human Spirit
Last week, in Seoul, Korea, my workshop theme was, The Physiology Of The Human Spirit. Leonardo daVinci set out to discover the seat of the soul. No small task. He explored an area of the body known,...
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Striking Out In The Wrong Direction
To those who know me and love me, who have helped me over and over again to get to where I am trying to go. Ironically, I am likely to be remembered for my exquisite sense of direction within the...
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Letters To A Young Teacher – Starting Out.
Rilke’s Letter To A Young Poet I just recently graduated from an Alexander Technique Teacher Training Course.* The director spoke of you. During school we watched your video, The Top Ten Myths About...
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On Becoming A Person
Carl Rodgers There’s an advantage in not understanding a word people say. My students for the weekend, all Japanese psychologists, after a good amount of preparation the day before, were getting ready...
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The Way Of It
Prepare Yourself On this particular day, in Japan, in a hospital, I am with physical and speech therapists. I have two days, fourteen hours. Two professors of Physical Therapy invited me because it...
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Two Worlds
O mata se. Thank you so much for waiting. I’m really sorry I am so late. You say this, straight away, if you arrive late in Japan. Actually, you say it even if you arrive on time. Because if you...
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Making The Invisible Visible
Photo: B. Fertman “Anchan, I will pay for all your expenses, travel, room and board, training, film, everything, if you travel around with me and take photos.” That’s how it all began, the making of a...
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The Vow
Having taught Alexander’s work for all of five years, just shy of my thirtieth birthday, my workshop at Crosslands Retirement Community had finished. Putting on my coat, head down, feeling unsure of...
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Anchan Akihiro Tada – About The Touch
Photo: Bruce Fertman “Anchan, I will pay for all your expenses, travel, room and board, training, film, everything, if you travel around with me and take photos.” That’s how it all began, the making of...
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An Alexander Happening
Sometimes I really wonder about my voice. I don’t know why it’s so high, Atsuko says. Sitting together, eight of us at a Spanish restaurant in Temma, Osaka after a day of study, I notice when Atsuko...
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An Interview for Eye-Ai – Magazine for Japanese Entertainment And Culture
By Karen Riley This post is mainly for the Marketing The Alexander Technique Facebook folks. You never know. I was in Santa Fe, admiring an artist’s work that had a bit of a Japanese flair to it. I...
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