“You get away from all your old preconceived ideas because you are getting away from your old habits.”   – F.M. Alexander We come to the end of this six part series, having touched on various aspects of cello technique, bringing the ...

“The body is like an instrument; it depends who is playing it.” – F.M. Alexander In the Alexander work I do, I consider there are five stages in learning to let go of the left hand fingers in cello playing so they can be free to race around ...

The whole organism is responsible for specific trouble. Proof of this is that we eradicate specific defects in process. – F.M. Alexander To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. – Lao Tzu We now come to the bow, the most challenging ...

Trying is only emphasizing the thing we already know. – F.M. Alexander Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop. – Early Zen scripture (anonymous) Once a reasonable base of understanding is established and a student is able to stop, wait ...

“You translate everything, whether physical, mental or spiritual, into muscular tension.” 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’ ...