Individual Lessons in London at Studio One – October 3rd and 4th, 2016
Thanks to Selma Gokcen, I’ll be giving individual lessons on October 3rd and 4th. Location: 1 Wolseley Road, Crouch End, London, N8 8RR Fee: £50 for a 5o minute lesson. To save yourself a space simply...
View ArticleJoining Hands – L´Estudi Centre Tècnica Alexander Barcelona and The Alexander...
Only a few spaces remain for guest Alexander trainees and teachers to join our inquiry into the interface between the Carrington and Barstow traditions. Nica’s trainees and our trainees will be...
View ArticleTouching Down
In my front yard the rufous and ruby throated hummingbirds are heading south. Intelligently so, off to where it is warmer, without crossing time lines. No jet lag. I, on the other hand, am a migrant...
View ArticlePorto Workshop In The Alexander Technique For Performing Artists October 29th...
Durante mas de 100 años, la Técnica Alexander viene siendo estudiada por los artistas con la finalidad de aprender a “utilizarse” a si propios correctamente para alcanzar así los mejores resultados en...
View ArticleLanguage And Movement by Keith Hjortshoj
Keith Hjortshoj “Writers may not be special, sensitive or talented in any usual sense. They are simply engaged in sustained use of a language skill we all have. Their ‘creations’ come about through...
View ArticleProtected: When The Child Was A Child
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View ArticleProtected: Our Reaction To Stimuli From Within And Without
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View ArticleFrom Within And All Around
F. M. Alexander Boiled down, it all comes to inhibiting a particular reaction to a given stimulus. But no one will see it that way. They will see it as getting in and out of a chair the right way. It...
View ArticleWhen The Child Was A Child
Messengers In Wings Over Berlin, two angels, invisible to humans, softly, silently offer comfort, sometimes, but not always, lifting the spell of isolation and despair from suffering human souls. They...
View ArticleLetters To A Young Teacher
The thing is I feel alone, in terms of doing the AT work, when I live in Taiwan. I have heard about this feeling of loneliness and isolation from other Alexander teachers.You spend three years inside a...
View ArticleTeaching By Hand/Learning By Heart – London Workshops and Individual Lessons...
Saturday, April 22, 2017 The Physics and Metaphysics of Touch Photo: Tada Akihiro For Alexander trainees and teachers, as well as for other movement educators and somatic therapists who use their...
View ArticleStill Life
Pare it down and you’ve got two things left: ground and space. Ground is any object in the universe that has mass. Any object that has mass exerts a gravitational pull, or force, on every other mass....
View ArticleJust A Hunch
photo: Bruce Fertman Just A Hunch Through the pressure generated between the growing head and the growing heart, the face is sculpted. Three ridges. One will become the brow, one the nose, one the...
View ArticlePatterns
My eyes can dimly see the pattern of my life and the puzzle that is me. Patterns by Simon and Garfunkel We often use the word ‘habit’ in our work. We are usually referring to unconscious habits that...
View ArticleFrom Here To Really Here – A Workshop For Alexander Teachers and Trainees –...
Inhibition and Direction go together like Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, like Abbott and Costello, like Batman and Robin, like Tonto and the Lone Ranger. Like Yin and Yang. Actually a lot like yin...
View ArticleRedirecting Unnecessary Tension Into Useful Energy – Directly Experiencing...
Photo: B. Fertman Given By Bruce Fertman Dorset, England July 8th and 9th, 2017 We know it’s true. Einstein proved it. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Rather, it transforms from one form...
View ArticleAnnual Alexander Alliance Summer Retreat Germany Einbecker Sonnenberg 15. –...
Annual Alexander Alliance Summer Retreat Germany Einbecker Sonnenberg 15. – 19. July 2017 Photo: B. Fertman Our yearly summer retreat offers 5 days of concentrated studying in a relaxed atmosphere....
View ArticleLetter To The Editor
Teaching By Hand/Learning By Heart Delving Into The Work Of F.M. Alexander By Bruce Fertman Letter to the Editor: Jean, This makes me nervous, but I now send you my finished manuscript. It is...
View ArticleUPDATING BLOG OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS!!!
Dear Blog Followers, Bear with me as I improve my blog for you. If you’d like to contact me for any reason you can do so at bf@brucefertman.com or via facebook. Should resurface soon, Yours, Bruce
View ArticleArchives
There’s a good bit of writing I’ve shared here with my readers over the last few years, some of it dating back 30 years, some of it written last week. The best way to read my writings is to look to...
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