“Under the ordinary teaching methods, the pupil gets nineteen wrong to one right experience. It ought to be the other way round.” -FM Alexander A young instrumentalist aiming for a professional life onstage puts in a staggering number of practice ...

“Doing in your case is so ‘overdoing’ that you are practically paralysing the parts you want to work.” — FM Alexander As an Alexander Technique teacher, I work with many cellists who are in distress —the kind of distress that means ...

“It is not the degree of ‘willing’ or ‘trying’, but the way in which the energy is directed, that is going to make the ‘willing’ or ‘trying’ effective –F.M. Alexander As musicians, most of us have a deeply trained muscle memory system, a ...

“You translate everything, whether physical, mental or spiritual, into muscular tension.” “We can throw away the habit of a lifetime in a few minutes if we use our brains.” –F.M. Alexander My Alexander teacher is always speaking about the force ...