From The Same Immaterial Fabric
Photo: B. Fertman/Seoul, Korea A student asks, “What is this inner body of which you so often speak?” The inner body is neither physical nor metaphysical. Not of the body and not beyond the body....
View ArticleTim Soar’s Review of Teaching By Hand/Learning By Heart for STAT News
It has been over 40 years since I first began studying with Marjorie Barstow, and this fact reminds me of a teaching story. Within the tradition of Chanoyu, Japanese tea ceremony, it is said that for...
View ArticleA Meeting Of Minds
Dear Bruce, My warmest congratulations for your inspiring book. Your view, as usual, honours the work of FM Alexander and its evolution in the most human and poetic way, but also places you in a...
View ArticleFalling Up/Touching Down – October 6, 2018 – Workshop in the Alexander...
Falling Up 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 Chi teachers would...
View ArticleTouching This World
No one seems to know the story behind Michelangelo’s choice. What I do know is that in the Torah the story goes God blew the breath of life into Adam through his nostrils. It was breath that was the...
View ArticlePerhaps the Most Important Question of All
Post-Congress Musings In Honor of All Those Doing Their Best to Train Future Generations of Alexander Teachers Part I It is no secret that many teacher training programs in the Alexander Technique have...
View ArticleThe Nine Peas of Progress
Post-Congress Musings In Honor of All Those Doing Their Best to Train Future Generations of Alexander Teachers Part II The Nine Peas of Progress As a little girl my daughter loved peas. But she would...
View ArticleThe Grandfather and His Four Grandchildren
Post-Congress Musings In Honor of All Those Doing Their Best to Train Future Generations of Alexander Teachers Part III Maybe I will figure this one out before I die. I hope so. I may be getting close....
View ArticleThis Graceful, Practical Generosity Toward The Possible
Post-Congress Musings In Honor of All Those Doing Their Best to Train Future Generations of Alexander Teachers Part IV Aszure Barton and Mikhail Baryshnikov – The Contemporary meets the Classical...
View ArticleThe Lost Procedure
“So we saunter toward the Holy Land, till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great...
View ArticleThinking Body, Moving Mind – An Introduction to the Work of FM Alexander –...
Alexander Work is the study of the quality of your life. It teaches you how to make profound, conscious, life-altering choices – beyond rules or expectations, beyond both habit and knowledge. Imagine...
View ArticleThe First Alexander Alliance Post Graduate Training Program in the Alexander...
Dear Fellow Alexander Technique Teachers, The purpose of this correspondence is to inform and invite you to a unique opportunity to undertake an internationally recognized and certified AT Post...
View ArticleLifeWork – Taking the Principles beyond the Procedures – Post Graduate...
This Post Graduate Alexander Workshop offers tools for teaching Alexander’s Principles inside the reality of people’s everyday lives. It is open to Teacher’s from all styles. Make the Work more...
View ArticleA Reading: The Lost Procedure – The Gift of Rotation and Spiraling In Walking
“So we saunter toward the Holy Land, till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great...
View ArticleA Reading By Jenny Quick – The End of the Road – Written by Bruce Fertman
Photo: B. Fertman We teach what we most need to learn. At least that is how it is with me. Have you noticed it’s relatively easy to make good use of Alexander’s work when we are doing well, but nearly...
View ArticleEtwas Leichtigkeit –Übersetzung: Matthias Liesenhoff
Herr Yamamoto hatte einen langen Tag. Endlich am Ende angelangt, steigt er auf sein Fahrrad und schlängelt sich durch enge Straßen, gesäumt von alten, staubigen Läden und verwitterten Holzhäusern. Es...
View ArticleBody and Being – Delving Into the Work of F.M. Alexander – April 12/13, 2019...
Navajo Woman – photo: B. Fertman Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of...
View ArticleCalming Down/Waking Up – A Workshop In The Alexander Technique With Bruce...
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 Chi teachers would tell me how...
View ArticleBody and Being – Delving Into the Work of F.M. Alexander – May 5, 2019 –...
A Sneak Preview into the Switzerland Alexander Alliance Post Graduate Training Program Beginning spring 2020 Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in...
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Kevin Saunders It’s difficult for me to grasp that Kevin has died. He was such a careful person who took such good care of himself. No matter how much we try to take control of our lives, there is only...
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