Newsweek is running a fascinating article on Abraham Lincolnthis week. Lincoln was a gutsy politician who’s attained almost saint like status in the world today - but the point of the Newsweek article is to bring people back to earth about the means whereby he effected the changes he wanted - and Alexander Technique teachers would do well to study his approach.

Don Burton, a wonderful English Alexander Technique teacher who passed away many years ago in mysterious circumstances, built on Alexander’s principle of Use affects Function – he added the concept of structure.