Arrogant AT Teacher Gets His Own

One long-time reader wrote me a polite letter, explaining why he was unsubscribing.

It seemed my email yesterday - "The Alexander Technique is a Nonsense Concept" went a little too far in his opinion.

Too far how?

Ah, that's the puzzling part for me.

I was rude about ligaments, Bonnie AND Alexander Technique. And that came across as arrogant to my - as of yesterday - devoted reader (who, BTW, is not reading this).

I can see why it sounds arrogant - as though I am dismissing the work of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, of the need to know about ligaments etc. If that was all I was dismissing - and in my second breath praising Alexander Technique - I'd agree.

That's arrogant.

But I wasn't doing that.

I also dismissed - as I often do - the process of Alexander Technique as something unique. That's arrogant, I agree. It is a spurious representative of what FM discovered. Sure, it's a great process, and it delivers results, but it is scientific method applied to human behaviour - there is nothing momentous or new about it.

It's what the process is applied to that makes it different.

And what is that?

It's what Alexander's discovered: that head movements govern vertebral co-ordination, and this co-ordination calibrates the functioning of other systems. When Bonnie does her thing - she is also revealing this truth.

It is not "Alexander's truth" any more than the relationship between time, matter and energy is "Einstein's truth". What both men have in common is articulating a supreme governing set of principles from which all manner of results flow; an idea that makes sense of overwhelming mountains of data and organises our reality into something resembling the truth, with 100% predictability.

I wonder if my reader got that point?

Is Chancer is successful at communicating this at all?

BodyThinking is a course where I try to show how this truth manifests in the simple everyday Use of the Self. It takes movements and looks at how this discovery of Alexander makes sense of the complex and often bewildering subset of actions that our moving Self is capable of doing.

BodyThinking is a modest course, not an arrogant one. I don't even call it an anatomy course. I think of it more as a way of digging deeper into understanding how the head/spinal relationship influences every way we move.

It's a very isolated sub-set, and Bonnie has gone way further in her way. Hats off to her. I should be so ambitious.

Come along to my free session on BodyThinking, where I will lay it out as best I can. I will also make an offer on that call that I won't do in these emails - register below.

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