A technique of being mindful of, and pursuing naturalness in posture.
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aka The Alexander Regeneration
Intro ∞
The Alexander Technique, is, at its heart, about posture. The idea is that when mindfulness is applied to one's posture this improvement snowballs into a broad range of health and well-being benefits.
A supplement to this is a mindfulness of breathing, relaxation and one's outlook in general.
The Alexander Technique was developed by Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869 - 1955).
Notes ∞
- The Alexander Technique has a concept of "conscious de-control", performed through "central control". Basically, focusing on a general balance so as to stop bad habits and allow good ones to come. Focus, to allow instinct to come to the foreground.
- Aldous Huxley preached it.
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George E. Coghill, of the Wistar Institute in the USA
Reading ∞
- /tag/the-alexander-technique+writing
- TODO - Coghill also wrote an (unpublished) essay on the teaching of Alexander in which he said that Alexander established reintegration of the organism-as-a-whole by teaching civilized man to let the total pattern of each reaction to a stimulus precede the faulty partial pattern reaction.
- Chairs, Posture, Ergonomics and the Alexander Technique, by Robert Rickover
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The Effects of Posture on Learning: Insights from the Alexander Technique
Books ∞
TODO - research
- The Creative Advance of the Individual, by G. C. Bowden
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The Universal Constant In Living, 1946
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120401054407/http://www.mouritz.co.uk/0.0.Books.Summary.html
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Personally Speaking by Walter Carrington
- (on the F. M. Alexander Technique in discussion with Seán Carey)
- ISBN-10 095255741X
- https://web.archive.org/web/20121008011912/http://www.mouritz.co.uk:80/1.08.PersonallySpeaking.html
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The Philosopher's Stone Edited and introduced by Jean M. O. Fischer
- (Diaries of Lessons with F. Matthias Alexander)
- ISBN-10 0952557487
- https://web.archive.org/web/20121008011857/http://www.mouritz.co.uk:80/1.05.PhilsopherStone.html
Resources ∞
- https://ergonomics.org/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20130918162330/http://www.nopain-gain.com/
- Google Directory: Alexander Technique
- https://web.archive.org/web/20171010170856/http://www.alexandertechniquecentre.be:80/
- https://alexandertechnique.com/
- https://alexandertechnique.com.au/
- http://www.connactivity.com/~jill/
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Direction - A Journal on the Alexander Technique
Organizations:
- AUSTAT - Australia
- AEFMAT - Belgium
- CANSTAT - Canada
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APTA - France (French)
- ATTSNZ - New Zealand
- SASTAT - South Africa
- STAT - United Kingdom
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AmSAT - United States of America - (formerly known as NASTAT, North American Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique)
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