I’ve been thinking a lot recently about postural or muscle tone. As a practitioner who uses her hands to guide people toward moving with greater ease, I started thinking more succinctly about how, through my hands, I assess the quality…
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On Postural Tone
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Whole Body Awareness for Dancers, For Everyone
Last week I had the great pleasure of teaching Alexander Technique as a guest artist in the dance department at Texas Woman’s University. The students, a mix of undergrads and graduate students, were wonderfully engaged and receptive. Thank you TWU…
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A Nobel Prize Winner Pays Tribute To Alexander Technique
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…
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…
From My Student’s Point Of View
It’s the best thing I’ve ever done for myself. I’m not tensing up or overworking certain muscles when I work. It used to be that only regular massage and chiropractic adjustments would release that tension and now I don’t feel…
Alexander In The News – November 2012
‘Alexander In The News’ is a recurring post on my blog. Whenever I come across news coverage that I think is well done, doing a good job of explaining the Technique, I put it up here. The latest comes from…
New video about the Alexander Technique from AmSAT
This new animated video offers a wonderfully simple and straight forward explanation of the Alexander Technique. Produced by The American Society for the Alexander Technique(AmSAT)* *AmSAT is the largest professional organization of teachers of the Alexander Technique in the United…
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 →