Core support and breathing How we breathe plays a crucial role in all this. I recall Walter Carrington telling us we should always remember this work began with a man with a breathing problem, and although we no longer refer to our work as respiratory re-education (FM’s early term for it) Walter would say: “If…
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Explaining the AT 5
True Core Support When the concept of core support was first popularized by Pilates teachers, many of us Alexander teachers (myself included) were very skeptical about it and tended to say things like: “Well, surely it’s obvious that the back supports the front rather than front musculature (in particular abdominal muscules) supporting the back. Look at…
Explaining the AT 4
A “pre” technique When I was first around the Alexander world, in the early to mid 1970s, a description I sometimes heard was that the Alexander Technique is a “pre-technique.” In a way that relates to what I wrote in the first post of this series on Explaining the AT.” There I was talking about…