As the Nobel Prizes have been handed out in these last few weeks I’m reminded of Dr. Nikolaas Tinbergen, who in his Nobel acceptance speech in 1973 for Physiology or Medicine, devoted much of it to discussing F.M. Alexander’s remarkable…
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Yearly Archives: 2013
The story of a corporate lawyer debilitated by pain who found the Alexander Technique…
Karen Krueger, now a fellow Alexander Teacher, was a corporate lawyer who became so debilitated by back and neck pain that she had to take a leave from her job. Around that time she began taking lessons in the Alexander…
Alexander as a Tool for Injury Recovery and Prevention
“I honestly believe my injury wouldn’t have happened if I had known Alexander before.” -Kristie Simson, dancer and professor of dance at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne (From Head First by Jen Peters, Dance Magazine). A recent article in Dance Magazine…
Alexander in the News – January 2013
This came out today in the Huffington Post Healthy Living section: Beyond The Pill: Physicians’ Trend for 2013 In it, Dr. Loren Fishman offers a thoughtful discourse on how western medical approaches can work in tandem with alternative therapies to…
Rachel Bernsen is a nationally certified teacher, M.AmSAT. She received her certification from the American Center for the Alexander Technique (ACAT) in New York City, the oldest and most established training program in the US. She has a private practice in New Haven, CT. LEARN MORE →