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The Thread – Graduate Talk to German Alliance Graduates 2015
The Thread This graduation talk might strike you as egocentric, but it isn’t. It may sound as if it’s about me, but it’s not. It’s about you. If you want to know what I know, you must do what I did. –...
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Out On A Limb
Photo by: Anchan of Elisabeth Walker I’m going to go out on a limb here. Because I love Alexander’s work so much, and because over and over again I have seen people’s inner beauty unveiled through this...
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Shekinah – A Contemporary Midrash On Genesis
It just happened. I didn’t mean to do it. It seems I’ve written a children’s tale. In fact it seems in so doing I’ve recreated the world. Now that is quite the statement. But there you have it. For my...
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Moving Ideas – October 24-25, 2015 – Zürich
photo by Bruce Fertman An Introduction to the Alexander Technique By Bruce Fertman The Alexander Technique Whether we are dancing, hammering a nail, singing a song, working at a computer or walking to...
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The Dwelling Place – A Contemporary Midrash On Genesis For Children And Grown...
Photo: B. Fertman In Honor of Rebbe Zalman Schachter-Shalomi – (August 28, 1924 – July 3, 2014) There was once a little girl and she was terribly bored. There was nothing to do, and not only was there...
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The Binding Spell
Photo: B. Fertman There is so much to be seen when one reaches the point of being able to see. F.M. Alexander Because I often do my work in groups, my trainees get to watch me work with lots of...
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Enough Is Plenty
Sitting by Chimney Rock overlooking Pedernal Mesa. There have been years in my life when I have felt inspired, creative, exuberant; distressed, deflated, depressed; centered, sensible, devoted,...
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Calming Down – Waking Up
When I’m teaching well I see a lot, but there’s always a lot I don’t see. Having someone there for the sole purpose of seeing the moment, the moment when someone suddenly, all at once, calms down and...
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Quintessence – A Documentary On The Alexander Alliance Germany
In this heartfelt documentary, award winning videographer Renea Roberts captures what Alexander’s work is about as understood through The Alexander Alliance Germany, a school I founded in 1996.
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This Does Not Help
I’m not the sort of person who figures things out for myself. When I get lost, which is often, rather than look at a map, (I’ve no smartphone), I will usually ask someone. I enjoy the encounter. I...
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Post Graduate Training Program -Dorset, England – 2016/2017
The First Alexander Alliance Post Graduate Training Program Dorset, England July 8-15/October 5-11, 2016 Bruce Fertman Photo: Soomin Park One of the foremost representatives of Marjorie Barstow’s...
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Our Undivided Attention
Prell Concentrate I can’t remember. Was it me who coined the phrase, or F.M. Alexander, or Frank Pierce Jones? It seems many Alexander teachers use the phrase now, teachers who I have not trained. Did...
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Over Tokyo Bay
It got me fired. A man, a father to one of the young gymnasts at the Mann Recreation Center in Philadelphia, where I worked as a gymnastic coach for a girls gymnastic team, was complaining about how...
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Inside The Majesty
Photo: B. Fertman Monument Valley – The Three Sisters “Okay. What’s a Movement Meditation? What do you think, I ask my class?” It’s when you’re doing some kind of movement and you drop into the...
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Mirando Tokyo Bay – Translated by Mari Hodges
Me despidieron. Un hombre, padre de una de las jóvenes gimnastas en el Mann Recreation Center en Philadelphia, donde yo trabajaba como entrenador para un equipo de gimnasia femenino, se estaba...
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Equilibrio
Photo: B. Fertman (*Poise no tiene traducción precisa en español, pero tiene connotaciones de equilibrio dinámico y armónico, porte elegante, gracia y control. Aquí se traduce como “equilibrio”.) El...
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Genesis Revisited
Photo: B. Fertman There was once a little girl and she was terribly bored. There was nothing to do, and not only was there nothing to do, there was absolutely nothing at all. On The First Day Since...
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Prepared For Nothing/Ready For Anything – A Seriously Playful Introduction To...
Photo: B. Fertman Do what you can, with what you’ve got, from where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt The readiness is all. – William Shakespeare from Hamlet When asked for a one-word description of what...
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A Sneak Preview Into The Alexander Alliance Post Graduate Training Program –...
Teachers well versed in Alexander’s procedures, who have a clear understanding of what Alexander’s work is about have recently sought me out and begun studying with me. Some of them have been teaching...
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In Tune, In Tone, In Time An Introduction In The Alexander Technique For...
With Bruce Fertman Founding Director of The Alexander Alliance International We can’t play our music without our bodies. Our instruments are an extension of us, of who we are, and how we are. The...
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