The Alexander Technique and Cost-benefit Analysis

I knew a businessman who was partly responsible for the demise of his company. As an executive, junior to the president, he proposed, and his president disposed, disposed, that is, of the young executive’s ideas. His answer was always an adamant and automatic...

International Year of the Spine?

Your way of life, your livelihood, and your lifestyle, depend upon your spinal health, central in every respect to your greater health. And so, dear reader, does mine. Our backs support us in every possible meaning of the word. As a new calendar year approaches, it...

Alexander Technique and The Cool

Many men and women have bent under oppression in order not to be broken. They are due endless homage. Many others have remained upright and been broken, knocked down, for their effort. They too are forever due our homage. In a Nazi concentration camp, an incredibly...

Breath, Creation, and Alexander Technique

I love the creation story where spirit, breath, moves upon the face of the waters.  What happens when your breath moves upon the face, the surface of, say, your coffee cup. Waves. What if all of creation were waves? That’s what some physicists are telling us...