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Letters To A Young Teacher – A Heavenly Host
Rilke’s Letter To A Young Poet When you first started teaching, did you trust that your hands were directing in the way that they should or could? I am finding myself wondering if my hands are giving...
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The Lay Of The Land
Photo: Anchan Akihiro Tada In Japan people work late, often at jobs that have little to do with who they are. They finish work and desperately want to do something for themselves, something they care...
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The Decision
Pottery by Dorothea Chabert I. While Eva prepares dinner, I am in the living room holding a ceramic pot in my hands. “Eva, tell me about the large brown pot by the window. It looks like it wasn’t made....
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Aha!
Sometimes it’s a matter of how you frame it, how you pare it down, where you make the connections, what you deem significant. It took me a while to come up with a framework for my life that made sense,...
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Eleven Days
For eleven days, Rusty was nowhere to be found. Of course, we notified the local animal shelter, put up posters everywhere that made sense, notified people via Facebook. But it was disheartening...
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In That Deep Place
Member of Jeong Ga Ak Hoe, Traditional Korean Music Ensemble Erika Whittaker, the person who holds the record for studying Alexander’s work longer than anyone, almost 90 years, was one bright, honest,...
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Part I The Libyan Sybil – The Critical Moment
If you look closely at some of the large figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, you may notice something peculiar. A good number of them have books in their hands. It seems they want to read....
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PART II The Libyan Sybil – Revealing That Which Is Hidden
I am going to compare our Libyan Sybil to another figure, one of the Ignudo figures, one of the twenty naked, muscular figures on the Sistine Chapel. Let’s take a look. What do you see? Another...
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Your True Face
Ninety percent of the time I work with people with their eyes open. I want them to see the world, and be in the world. At the same time, when people first experience deep kinesthetic lightness, often...
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Leaving Myself In Your Hands
Bill Coco “Show me how to do that?” And I would. I would stop my own workout and teach someone how to do what I had somehow figured out how to do, like a front somersault, or a reverse kip up on the...
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Nothing Else To Say
Words. They’re important. They’re worth thinking about. It’s worth taking the time and finding the precise word or words that express your truth. It’s worth visiting those words over and over again,...
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My Letter Of Resignation
At the ripe age of 64, I hereby announce my retirement. Below, you will find my letter of resignation. June 15, 2015 To Whom It May Concern, I have quit. I’ve quit being overly ambitious. What I have...
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Not Yours. Not Mine.
Photo: B. Fertman Not in a place, not in a space, Not a person, not a thing, Not a ping or a pong, Not the soundless sounding of a gong. Not a word, surely not absurd. Don’t look. You’ll not come...
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Without Apology
Photo: Tada Anchan Akihiro 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 make a...
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Protected: The Art Of Introducing The Work Of F.M. Alexander
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Something To Consider
Richard M. Gummere, Jr. Once I asked a man what he did for a living and he said, “I’m an anesthesiologist. And what’s your job,” he asked? “I’m a esthesiologist. You say to people, ‘You’re not going to...
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Naturalness And The Alexander Technique
photo by Bruce Fertman When an investigation comes to be made, it will be found that every single thing we are doing in the work is exactly what is being done in nature where the conditions are...
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The Space Within, Around And Between
photo: B. Fertman Within but not enclosed, without but not excluded. Hildegard von Bingen • The world is our consciousness, and it surrounds us. Gary Snyder • Our souls dwell where our inner world and...
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Just Shy Of Infinity
Photo: B. Fertman Who would have thought? I mean, who would have thought that when I was 25 years old and utterly convinced that Marjorie Barstow’s approach to teaching Alexander’s work was superior in...
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The End Of The Road
Photo: B. Fertman I think I’m getting it. The more we, as Alexander teachers go about waking ourselves and our students up to the true and primary movement, the primary control, inherent control, the...
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