Alternative Medicine/Alexander method

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Expert: - 12/18/2004


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I am interested to know about it. Thanks

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The Alexander Technique is a way of looking at how you use yourself, understanding whether you are using yourself well or badly and learning how to change or improve.  There is a vast amount of info on the net and you will find more than one book on the subject at your local book shop, I promise, but the best way to get a handle on the Technique is to go and have a lesson from a teacher.  I don't know where you live in the world, but if you go to www.stat.org.uk you will find plenty of leads to help you find a teacher anywhere in the world.  As an alternative, find a teacher who does group teaching and start with the Technique by joining an introductory class. Good luck, and if once you have explored a little bit more you have a more specific question, send it in and I will answer it.

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Stephen Cooper

Expertise

Alexander Technique - what it is, whether will it help you, how to find a teacher, how to train as a practitioner. The principles and theory of the technique, and how it works in practice. What happens in lessons. Origins of the Alexander Technique.

Experience

I am a teacher with 20 years teaching experience, and a teaching member of The Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (STAT). and I run a school training teachers of the Technique.I am a Director of the Bloomsbury Alexander Centre in central London, UK and Director of the Headington Alexander Training School in Oxford, UK (reconized by STAT).

Organizations
Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique

Education/Credentials
MSTAT (Member of the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique
GRSM (Graduate of the Royal Schools of Music, London)

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