“Sensory appreciation conditions conception – you can’t know a thing by an instrument that is wrong.” F. M. Alexander (1869–1955) The self – body and mind – is the instrument we use in living. The Alexander Technique teaches us how to consciously use the self in everyday life. These teaching aphorisms from Alexander’s lessons provide succinct insights into the working of the Technique. In this book readers familiar with the Technique will discover much of interest – especially concerning the influence which habit and feeling have on human behaviour. These concise and sharp observations capture the spirit of the Alexander Technique: the appeal to awareness and reason as a way of life. The beautiful, meditative illustrations were created by the artist Birgit Meyer-Woycke, who has studied the Alexander Technique for many years. The first edition was published in hardback in 2000.
