The Alexander Technique

Jeff Hall's Alexander Technique Blog

Taken from http://useoftheself.blogspot.com

Here is a list of the AT blogs I've posted on blogspot.com. I always welcome comments to my blogs both complementary and critical.

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Choose Your Restaurant Table Carefully
A potentially bad experience at a restaurant can be avoided of you make sure you are sitting comfortably. Choosing a table that does not allow you to put your feet flat on the floor would therfore be a mistake. The post concluses with the AT guide to getting in and out of a dining chair at the table.

24/08/2010

Love, Relationships and the Alexander Technique
AT affects your whole psycho-physical self. This, in turn, affects the way you appear to others and their reaction to you. As you perceive changes in the way people relate to you, you in turn relate more positively to them. The post concludes with an AT teachers guide to kissing!

04/08/2010

Heading in the Right Direction
Just like inhibition, directions eventually become subconscious, but that doesn't mean we no longer have to apply constructive conscious control.

23/02/2010

More about Inhibition
A response to an article on www.mindplusbody.co.uk. The effect of inhibition on the emotions is discussed. Is inhibition merely "a state you find yourself in" as they claimed?

11/02/2010

Can we define "Inhibition"?
In trying to understand how to apply inhibition, we have to face up to the fact that we aren't really aware what's happening in what we think of as "now".

21/01/2010

Which way is "Up"?
An exploration of the meaning of "upness" and how to experience it

17/12/2009

What are the "AT Basics"?
Should a new pupil be taught the basics of AT in the first 10 weeks and if so, just what are the basics?

16/04/2009

It's time to protect our market
Should we be setting up new AT teacher training schools to supply an already saturated market - with a recession looming?

01/02/2009

The ATEAM Study
The results of a government-funded study of the comparative effectiveness of AT in treating chronic lower back pain.

02/09/2008

Demystifying AT
AT can have profound positive psychological benefits for those who practise it, but does it also have a spiritual dimension?

29/12/2007

The Right Way of Pulling
The way that an AT teachers hands create change is very subtle. Could it be that we are communicating with a pupil via the proprioceptive sense?

20/12/2007

Changing the habits of a lifetime
A re-evaluation of the force of habit using a new 4-part model of brain processing mechanisms. Four bullet points are used to define the Alexander Technique.

06/12/2007

Let's Get Straight to the Point About End-Gaining
It's OK to be an end-gainer, despite what some teachers might have you believe. It's the means whereby you gain your end that is important.

16/10/2007

Psychophysical Unity
Psycophyical unity is very real. In fact, teaching AT would not be possible without it.

12/10/2007

It's a matter of opinion
There is no one-world explanation of AT.

11/10/2007

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