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A Birthday Present To Myself
Photo: B. Fertman Though not completely finished, I decided to get my reconstructed blog back up and running. My apologies for anyone who tried to enter and couldn’t get in. I have yet to organize my...
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On A Good Day
Joanna Macy, a Buddhist scholar and deep ecologist, and I were teaching at Omega Institute on the same week. Unbeknownst to me she peeked into one of my classes. Just before the end of our time there...
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Request And Contest
photo: B. Fertman Now that I’ve signed a contract and placed my book in the good and capable hands of Jean Fischer and Mouritz Publishers, my mind begins searching for fragments of future writings. My...
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Salmon Rising/Water Falling – Understanding Alexandrian Directionality – For...
Alexander’s sequence of verbal directions, let the neck be free, etc., I see as a shorthand that, when deeply understood, triggers a directional weave of inherent support that pervades and frees...
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Calming Down/Waking Up – A Workshop In The Alexander Technique With Bruce...
Navajo Woman – photo: B. Fertman The way up and the way down are one and the same. Heraclitus Forty-five years ago, when I first began studying both Tai Chi Chu’an and the Alexander Technique, my Tai...
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Calming Down/Waking Up – An AT Retreat in the Philippines – February 21-25, 2018
We’ve got the dates. We’ve got Alexander teachers from the Philippines, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan planning to join us. We’ve got Filipinos, many whom are educators, excited to learn about...
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The First Satellite Alexander Alliance Teacher Training Program In The...
This summer two people who live in Switzerland visited our school in Germany. They were moved not only by what we taught and how we taught it, but by our entire community/school; the senior teachers,...
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A Place Where Any Alexander Teacher Can…
Photo: B. Fertman – Wheeler Peak, NM. A place where any alexander teacher can post an announcement or flyer promoting themselves as an AT teacher, their work, their website, their blog, their studio,...
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Alexander Games – Led by Robyn Avalon – Sunday, September 24, 2017 in Zurich
What do these experiences have in common? Being a dinosaur with a ponytail and long wings walking on the beach. Finding support on a crowded Tokyo subway. Asking a chauffeur to drive you to a new...
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Alexander Work in Everyday Life Situations – Led by Robyn Avalon – Saturday,...
It is one thing to notice yourself and the quality of your ease when you are meditating, having an Alexander lesson, enjoying a sunset, or when taking ‘time out’ to slow down and pay attention to your...
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A Workshop For Alexander Teachers and Trainees – From Here To Really Here –...
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...
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Why Not?
Gate House at Gaunts House, Dorset, England Why not? Why not allow Alexander Alliance Post Graduate teachers in England to study for free inside of our Alexander Alliance Post Graduate Program in...
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Towards A Free Future
Photo: B. Fertman “Structure is the record of past function. Function is the source of future structures.” Ludwig von Bertalanffy. Joyful Neutrality It’s Wednesday afternoon. Every Wednesday at 3pm...
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The Voice Of The World (A revision of Singing In the Rain)
I remember a class I took with Marjory Barlow in 1988. She was explaining how at first you give these words, these phrases to your student knowing they will have little or no idea of what you are...
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Robyn Avalon is, no doubt, one of the most remarkable teachers I’ve had the pleasure to know and learn from. Though once a student of mine, some 30 years ago, Robyn now serves as the co-director of the...
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Available Now. Bruce’s Book!
What People Are Saying About Bruce’s Book This is a book that we have needed for a long time — the only AT book I’ve come across that fully expresses the potential for human richness, depth, and...
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AUSTRIA – High Touch – hohe Berührungskompetenz – eine zertifizierte...
HIGH TOUCH – hohe Berührungskompetenz Zum Glück gibt es auf der Welt viele Menschen, die anderen Sorge tragen. Viele von uns unterstützen, bewegen, nähren, unterrichten oder rehabilitieren andere...
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May Nothing Stand Between Us
In the first half of my life I built walls; in the second half of my life I am doing my best to take those walls down. By believing that the teachers I had chosen to study under were the most...
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Eradicating Blocks – A Workshop In The Alexander Technique For Performing...
You are not here to acquire skills but to eradicate blocks. – Jerzy Grotowski It is your music, dance, or theatre teacher’s job to help you acquire the skills you need to be a fine artist. My job is...
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The Working World – Knowing How we are Being as we Do What we are Doing –...
AS we do what we are doing. That little work as is the challenge. We usually notice how we were being after we did what we did. “I was so afraid of being late to work this morning that I ran around...
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