Julie Rothschild is an Alexander Technique teacher in Boulder, Colorado. She is also a passionate dancer for whom everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. And some things went right – this is her (unfinished) story about the life of a dancer as she first encounters and learns…

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Alexander Technique… My Technique

This is the second in my series of stories this month by Alexander Technique teachers in my paid coaching program. Shawn Copeland is an Alexander Technique teacher and Adjunct Professor of Clarinet at the Department of Music in High Point University, North Carolina. And this is his story, told from the perspective of a musician seeking excellence…

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Think! Move! Perform!

Missy Vineyard, in a open post on Facebook's AT Global Group, threw in a focused point about the tablework "is it therapy?" question that I raised yesterday. Let me quote:

I am not a guy in a coffee shop going "Blah, blah, blah" about things he doesn't really know about, because a few people are willing to listen.

This business with a few rouge teachers in AmSAT – who BTW are doing AmSAT no favours – has got me thinking about BodyChance's service: how radical it must appear to some people who have yet to read my two position papers from the International Congress in Oxford (2004) and Lugano (2008) which are available here as a free download.

Giora Pinkas has just sent a letter to the besieged AmSAT SoCal teachers – as I suspected in my previous blog on this topic, John Baron's first letter was just an opening shot in a sustained campaign to defame BodyChance and my own reputation.

In the morning at 2am - yes, sometimes I start the day early - I was searching my email database for something, and came across an email from a teacher about chairwork. No need to mention who here, but I was taken by how lightly the idea of working outside of chairwork was treated, almost as though one only did that if one didn't have sufficient abilities to do chairwork. All said in a nice way, but still overtones of...