READING ABOUT THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE |
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Just as such skills as riding a bicycle are learned through direct experience, so is the Alexander Technique. Its history and principles can be described in words but the learning occurs through having the experience to associate with them. That's what happens in lessons. |
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Books by F. M. Alexander Alexander wrote four books in which he detailed how his work evolved, the concepts that grew from it, and their import and applications: Man's
Supreme Inheritance: Conscious
Guidance and Control
in Relation to Human Evolution in Civilization (1910, 1918) Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual (1923) The Use of The Self (1932) The Universal Constant in Living (1941) Over the years since Alexander wrote these books, many others have been published introducing and describing his work. |
Recommended
introductory books
There are dozens of books introducing the Alexander
Technique. Freedom to Change Jones relates the story and development of the Technique and explains some of the underlying mechanisms that govern human functioning, including how the conscious mind activates anti-gravity reflexes. |
| BOOK ORDERING Books about the Alexander Technique are widely available in libraries, bookstores and online. Other sources include the following. |
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AmSAT Books The book division of the American Society for the Alexander Technique which maintains a comprehensive catalog of books, published nationally and internationally, as well as video and audiotapes on the Alexander Technique. |
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Mornum Time Press A small press publishing high-quality books exploring various aspects of the Alexander Technique. Founded by Jerry Sontag, a teacher of the Alexander Technique and the director of a teacher-training course, this press has published: Curiosity Recaptured: Exploring Ways We Think and Move
Thinking Aloud and The Act of Living An Examined Life Voice and the Alexander Technique |
Mouritz A specialist publisher of high-quality books on the Alexander Technique. Among those published to date are new editions of three of Alexander's four books, each of which includes information previously unpublished and: Articles and Lectures: first published compilation of all of Alexander's known lectures and writings not included in his books as well as early articles on the AT The Philosopher's Stone: a unique collection of diaries and notes from pupils' lessons with F. M. Alexander from c.1918 - 1953 F. Matthias Alexander - The Man and his Work: memoirs of training in the Alexander Technique from 1931-34 by Lulie Westfeldt: the only teacher from Alexander's first teacher training course to write about her experiences both as a student and then as a teacher for 26 years Personally Speaking: the revised and enlarged
edition of interviews with Walter Carrington in which he shares
insights into the history and teaching of the AT More
Talk of Alexander: 36 articles selected by Dr. Wilfred
Barlow on various facets of the AT including education, psychology,
theology, art, science and medicine by such contributors
as: Aldous Huxley, John Dewey and Nobel-prize winner Nikolaas Tinbergen. First published in 1978.
The Mouritz
website includes a
library section containing:
a short biography of Alexander, a
bibliography of his books,
archival literature and selected quotations
from his writings on key concepts.
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| Journal for the Alexander Technique Direction Journal is published in Australia and is a forum for the exchange of ideas and research discoveries related to the Alexander Technique. Editor: direction@optusnet.com.au |
Comprehensive
selections of books, CDs, DVDs, audio and videotapes sold in
association with AT teaching centers.
Alexander Books associated with London's Bloomsbury Alexander Centre Einstein's Moon Bookshop associated with Melbourne's School for F.M. Alexander Studies |
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Jill Geiger, AmSAT, STAT certified teacher of the Alexander Technique Newton, MA 617-527-7373 jill@ATinstruction.com |