NEW ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE NEWS :
AT ON NPR "Baby Steps To Better Breathing" 6/30/09 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105931606
AT ARTICLE IN THE NY TIMES
http://consults.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/relieving-back-pain-without-drugs-or-surgery/?hp
Alexander Technique and dance in the May issue of Dance Magazine: http://www.dancemagazine.com/issues/May-2009/Head-First
The April, 2009 issue of O, the Oprah Magazine, has a very nice article
on the Alexander Technique, about the study on back pain and Alexander
Technique that was published in the
British Medical Journal in August, 2008: http://www.oprah.com/article/omagazine/200904-omag-back-pain
The BMJ posted an article discussing the economic value of Alexander
lessons, and there is a link to a video posted on
youtube.com: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/dec11_2/a2656?view=long&pmid=19074232
The Chicago tribune published the following article, which was picked
up by Newsday:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-tc-health-sitting-0408-0405apr05,0,7476922.column
From the Financial Times, November 2008:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/79e20e74-b1db-11dd-b97a-0000779fd18c.html
COMPLETE RESEARCH RESULTS ON BACK PAIN AND AT STUDY:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/aug19_2/a884)
Other articles on the back pain study:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/aug/20/health.healthandwellbeing
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7568948.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2585404/Alexander-posture-technique-most-effective-at-reducing-back-pain.html
General AT LINKS:
www.ATNYC.us
The finest Alexander
Technique training program.
American Society for the Alexander
Technique (AmSAT)
The American Society for the Alexander Technique.
Useful information and links.
Society of
Teachers of the Alexander Technique (STAT)
The oldest Alexander society,
UK based.
Useful information and links.
The
Constructive Teaching Centre
Large collection of articles and other
information.
The Complete
Guide to the Alexander Technique
Musician Specific Links and Articles :
http://www.alexandertechnique.com/musicians.htm
Articles on musicians
(instrument specific)
http://www.alexandercenter.com/pa/
Articles on musicians
and the technique
http://www.pedrodealcantara.com/blog/category/tips-for-musicians
http://www.performancescience.org/cache/fl0003646.pdf
Article on pianist
FMRI scan results with the Alexander Technique
Various Quotations on the Alexander Technique
1.
“Alexander's work is of first class importance and investigation by the medical profession is imperative.”
British Medical Journal
2.
“The Alexander Technique helped a long standing back problem, and to
get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.”
Paul Newman, Actor
3.
"The Alexander Technique removed a long standing back problem and
improved my riding ability. Riders who take up the technique always
make a very significant improvement in their riding."
Daniel Pevsner, Fellow of the British Horse Society.
4.
“The Alexander Technique really works.”
Roald Dahl, Author
5.
“This story of perceptiveness, of intelligence and persistence shown by
a man without medical training, is one of the true epics of medical
research and practice.”
Nikolaas Tinbergen, Nobel Prize-winner for Medicine and Physiology, 1973
6.
I noticed with growing amazement, very striking improvements in
such diverse things as high blood pressure, breathing, depth of sleep,
overall cheerfulness, mental alertness, resilience against outside
pressures, and also in such refined skills as the playing of a stringed
musical instrument.”
Nikolaas Tinbergen, Nobel Prize-winner for Medicine and Physiology, 1973
7.
“It is by now a plain brute fact that the Alexander Principle
works. It is also a plain brute fact that most of the population need
it but know nothing of it.”
Dr Wilfred Barlow, 1990
8.
“The Alexander Technique transformed my life. It is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone.”
Tony Buzan, author of ‘Use Your Head, The Evolving Brain’
9.
“I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things
happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must
get an Alexander Teacher to show it to you.”
John Cleese, Comedian and Actor
10.
“I was dubious about the effects of the Alexander Technique when I
first went in to experience it, but I found out almost immediately that
the benefits were total - both physically and mentally - and, happily,
have also been long-lasting.”
Joanne Woodward, Actress
11.
“The Alexander Technique gives us all things we have been looking for
in a system of physical education: relief from strain due to
maladjustment, and constant improvement in physical and mental health.
We cannot ask for more from any system; nor, if we seriously desire to
alter human beings in a desirable direction, can we ask for any less.”
Aldous Huxley, Writer
12.
“Alexander established not only the beginnings of a far reaching
science of the apparently involuntary movements we call reflexes, but a
technique of correction and self control which forms a substantial
addition to our very slender resources in personal education.”
George Bernard Shaw, Playwright and Alexander’s pupil
13.
“It is one thing to teach the need of a return to the individual
man as the ultimate agency in whatever mankind and society collectively
can accomplish. It is another thing to discover the concrete procedure
by which this greatest of all tasks can be executed. And this
indispensable thing is exactly what Mr. Alexander has accomplished.”
Professor John Dewey, Philosopher and Educationalist
14.
“Mr. Alexander's method lays hold of the individual as a whole, as a
self-vitalising agent. He reconditions and re-educates the reflex
mechanisms and brings their habits into normal relation with the
functioning of the organism as a whole. I regard this method as
thoroughly scientific and educationally sound.”
Professor George E Coghill, Nobel Prize Winning Anatomist and Physiologist
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