F. Matthias Alexander and the Alexander Technique

One of the strengths of the Alexander Technique training at ACAT that I’m going through at the moment is the level of immersion. I’m used to more structured ways of learning, either the lecture format or more directly occupational instruction: “this is how you do this, now try it yourself.” There is a little bit…

We’ve had two books assigned to us to read before the Alexander training begins. One is The Use of the Self by F. M. Alexander. It’s a concise little primer on how he developed his ideas and their application. One of the things that I am beginning to enjoy about this work is the way…

Radiolab is an excellent program produced for NPR that features lively and entertaining explorations of scientific and philosophical topics. In 2006, they aired a show about the mind/body connection, and included a fascinating segment on a man who suddenly and permanently lost his kinesthetic/proprioceptive sense. You can hear the entire fascinating program here: Radiolab: Where…

It is really extraordinarily interesting to watch the operation of one’s own thinking, just to observe how one thinks, where that reaction we call thinking, springs from. Obviously from memory. Is there a beginning to thought at all? If there is, can we find out its beginning—that is, the beginning of memory, because if we…