News and Views
Growing Awareness
Perhaps it is unhelpful to think in terms of the mechanical perfection of our human form which is a living and intelligent structure in a complex environment, to which we respond either efficiently or not.
5 January 2012
Zen Koan
This zen koan succinctly expresses what is so necessary for change and growth it is verified endlessly in teaching the Alexander Technique
5 January 2012
From T.S. Eliot
These extracts from T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets express so poignantly what, for Sara, the Alexander Technique reveals
4 January 2012
Poetry in motion
The sight of thousands of knot birds flying over Walberswick reed beds in winter filled Sara with awe. Not only is their shape-shifting movement like a work of art, it also reminds her that there is an intelligence in the movement of the whole which is greater than the sum of its parts.
22 December 2011
From the sublime to the ridiculous
These two samples of film show that balance, wherever and however it manifests in our lives can be recognised and appreciated as an aesthetic act of extraordinary beauty
22 December 2011