DEFINING THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE Tim Soar © 1999

DEFINING THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE

Alexander Technque London e-book

This started out as a series of hand-outs for my pupils. When it outgrew that format I published it (1999) as a loose-leaf manual. Now it's a pdf e-book.. 

 

The illustrations are by Aron Czerveny

 

(Reformatted and reprinted here with permission, original pdf files can be downloaded from Tim's Articles page)

 


Contents

 

List of Illustrations

1  Drawing: Semi-Supine Position

3   Photo: Working on the Table

5   Drawing: The Startle Pattern

7   Photo: Working on the Chair

8   Colour Plate: The Balance of the Head

10 Photo: Portrait of FM Alexander*

       AJ Busch, 1941

16 Drawing: Monkey

      Photo: Child Performing Monkey

      Linda Brassil, 1999

19 Colour Plate: The Pelvis

22 Calligraphy: Tada Ima “Only now is real”

23 Drawing: A Whole-body Spiralling Attitude

26 Photo: The Whispered Ah!

27 Drawing: Hands on the Back of the Chair


All drawings are by Aron Czerveny.

 

All photographs are by Siriol Jones,

except where otherwise credited.

 

Japanese calligraphy is by Hagino Hiroaki, 1999.

 

* Photographs of FM Alexander © 1999,

The Society of Teachers of the

Alexander Technique, London.

 

Published by the Author in the UK, 1999.

 

© Tim Soar and Aron Cserveny, 1999.

 

ISBN 0 9537393 0 9

 

 

© Copyright Tim Soar 2010