Neutrality: The Actor and The Alexander Technique

Inside the atom subatomic particles – lepton, boson, hadron, neutrino, and quark – partner and dance in eternal opposition. Attraction and repulsion meet in the atom so perfectly that outside it the net result is atomic neutrality. Neutrality is a state of...

Inhibition and the Alexander Technique: A secular sacrament

F. M. Alexander’s concept of inhibition — so unfortunately named — is the ne plus ultra of the Alexander Technique, that without which the technique would not be. When deeply explored, it can become a powerful tool for understanding the self, a secular sacrament. The...

Take the Stage with Alexander Technique

­ In the theater, taking the stage, defining the space that you occupy, is an artful necessity. Lacking that art, your performance and the work you perform is riddled with holes. I once had the opportunity to see two performances within a week of each other of the...

Reinventing our pasts

I imagine our past laid out behind us like a great oriental carpet-runner rolling out from its spool toward infinity. On it sits the edifices of our memory — houses and huts — habitations fixed in time and sequence. Moreover, I imagine that when we become quiet, wait...