Touching Presence (Alexander Technique) by Tommy Thompson Rachel Prabhakar

Author:Tommy Thompson, Rachel Prabhakar [Tommy Thompson, Rachel Prabhakar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781733400503
Amazon: 1733400508
Publisher: Easeofbeing Publications
Published: 2019-09-27T21:00:00+00:00

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What do I teach?

Practical consciousness — applied.

Alexander taught the Alexander Technique. Perhaps he was the last to do so.

I teach my vision of a better world. I think Alexander had the same notion in mind.

I have been greatly influenced by the lessons I learned from Frank Pierce Jones, among them his views about teaching Alexander’s discoveries without necessarily following exactly in his footsteps. In his book Body Awareness in Action Jones wrote:

"The aim of teaching, as I conceive it, is to bring a pupil to the point of self-discovery that F. M. reached when he was able to translate what he saw in the mirrors into kinesthetic terms and to apply his new knowledge to the solution of his own problems and become in effect his own expert in the use of himself. To accomplish this result I do not believe it is necessary, or desirable, or for that matter possible to follow the same steps that F. M. followed in making his discovery or that I followed when I began studying the technique. My aim is to give my pupil as quickly and surely as possible the benefit of my present knowledge and understanding and help him avoid the false starts and misconceptions that slowed my own progress."5

5 Body Awareness in Action, Schocken Books, New York, 1979, p. 153. The book was reprinted in 1997 under the title Freedom to Change.

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