Explaining the Alexander Technique: The Writings of F. Matthias Alexander

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Walter Carrington

Seán Carey

Exercise & Fitness

The Sheildrake Press

Product Description: 
 Marjory Barlow (1915 - 2006) was the niece of the late FM Alexander, originator of the world-renowned Alexander Technique. She started having lessons with her uncle when she was 16 and joined the first Alexander Technique teacher training course a year later. With her husband, NHS rheumatologist and Alexander Technique teacher Dr Wilfred Barlow, she opened an Alexander Technique teacher training course at the London-based Alexander Institute in 1950. After retiring from teacher training in 1979, Marjory continued giving lessons in small classes for teachers and students at her flat in Primrose Hill. It was there that social anthropologist and Alexander Technique teacher, Sean Carey PhD, interviewed her for this much-praised text, which provides unique insights into FM Alexander and the procedures which he developed for his students, including 'monkey', squatting, hands over the back of a chair, going up on to the toes, the lunge, the whispered ah, and lying down in semi-supine. 
 
 Review: 
 To have an accurate record of how FM Alexander taught his pupils, presented here by his niece, is not only an invaluable resource for us now, but also a most enjoyable read. 
 Diana Devitt-Dawson, Director and Head of Training, Alexander Technique Institute and Teacher Training School, Sydney 
 
 The informative discussion of the ground rules, paired with Barlow's insights into Alexander's character and teaching methods, make this book a valuable addition to the literature on the Alexander Technique. 
 Susan Lehotsky, AmSAT teacher of the Alexander Technique, Carlisle, Massachusetts 
 
 A modern classic for all Alexander students

Alexander Technique: the Ground Rules: Marjory Barlow in Conversation with Sean Carey

HITE

Product Description Your long-term health and well-being are profoundly affected by how you use your body in everyday activities such as walking, sitting (at work or at leisure), bending, using and moving objects. This groundbreaking book analyses a sequence of basic human movements that all able-bodied people in any society perform. You will learn both how to better perform everyday activities including standing, walking, sitting, running, bending, breathing and lying down - and the reasons why most of us do these 'badly'. This book will be just as invaluable to those that are quite new to the technique as to experienced Alexander teachers. Review Alexander Technique in Everyday Activity is an excellent book. It's always difficult to write engagingly about something that has to be felt and lived for true understanding, but Séan Carey has managed it. I find myself regularly dipping into it for a refresher of everything I learned from him many years ago Dr Roger Neighbour OBE, Past President of the Royal College of General Physicians and author of The Inner Consultation and The Inner Apprentice. The well-organized index and...images throughout the book make it easy for teachers to use the book as a resource for themselves and their students. Whether you are a teacher or student, taking the time to understand and explore...this book will prove to be time well spent. Karen DeWig, Director of the Alexander Center of Albuquerque in the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT) Journal

Alexander Technique in Everyday Activity: Improve How You Sit, Stand, Walk, Work and Run

Think More, Do Less : Improving Your Teaching and Learning of the Alexander Technique with Marjory Barlow 2017

Exploring the Alexander Technique with Walter Carrington

HITE Ltd

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