Beware of Fake Alexander Technique Teachers

“But why in Heavens name do you go to M.S.I. for help in the practical side of the work when you have the actual statement of technique in the chapter “Illustration” in the later book C.C.C.?”

Alexander to a Student, Nov 11th, 1929
“Letters – Volume 1”, p. 30 (Mouritz, 2020).

The only teacher of the Alexander Technique alive today is dead.

That would be Alexander. He stated “the practical side of the work” in his book Conscious Constructive Control of the Individual (C.C.C.) in a detailed chapter called “Illustration.”

No-one teaches like that today. Everyone is a fake.

They are teaching something valuable for sure, but it is not Alexander’s Technique. Because the only person who can show that is dead.

Today “Alexander Technique” can represent so many different methods of teaching that the term is meaningless. Almost no-one I know looks anything like the description F.M. wrote in his book.

Only Alexander can teach that way. 

Even his brother A.R. didn’t teach that way!

Which is why I think “Alexander Technique” is a stupid name.

It means nothing to anyone new to the work. 

The best I can say is that it is uninformative, and the worst is that it is duplicitous, deceptive and dishonest.

No-one can teach the Alexander Technique except Alexander.

Which is why you will rarely catch Chancer using that description – instead I like to talk about Alexander’s discovery.

What discovery?

That all our systems – breathing, digestion, circulation, seeing, hearing, sensing etc. - are coordinated by the movements that occur between our head and spine. Before you attempt…

- to improve any skill
- diagnose any disease
- deal with an emotional issue

… you must analyse how you are using your head/spine as you do those things.

It’s a radical idea – it is the place where mind and body meet.

But you need tools for that. You need to know (for example):

– what is a head? 
(most people have a delusionary concept of where their ‘head’ is)

- what is a spine? 
(the most popular delusion is for it to be ‘straight’. Ughh!)

And so on. 

I could list more than a 100 delusionary concepts people entertain about their bodily design. These misconceptions need enlightenment which can be achieved by studying the actual design.

BodyChance’s BodyThinking course gives you a chance to come to know the design of you.

Throughout 66 videos, you will sort out the 100+ delusions you innocently hold and, in the process, start to experience more ease, freedom and accuracy in skill-based activities.

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