The Alexander Technique & Spirituality
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Kingsley demonstrates an Alexander Technique First Session with Tommy. This first session relates the Alexander Technique to states of Being like Mindfulness and Embodied Presence. Tommy shares how he often distracts himself away from a quality of softness and stillness with his usual habits. And he reports how powerful his first Alexander experience is for him. This session was filmed at Anthony's Alexander Teacher Training School in Golders Green, London on July 6th, 2023.
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In his Alexander sessions, Anthony can help you retune yourselves, experience an uplifting of the body and mind, and deal much more effectively with the demands and stress of daily life.
Anthony is also a trained psychotherapist, and offers somatic psychotherapy sessions and a safe space for emotional learning and processing.
For those who can not reach him in person, Anthony Kingsley has pioneered a unique way of offering Alexander Technique sessions Online. Of course, the essential beauty and power of the Technique resides in direct communication via the hands of a highly skilled Alexander Teacher. But during this challenging time, we may need a space to quieten our nervous systems, and recover a sense of balance and harmony.
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I do not fully understand the ins and outs if the Alexander technique. Having said that, your voice, tone, and nice manners are extremely appealing to me. I feel totally relaxed when I listen to you and watch your videos.
Thank you! 😃
"finds itself navigating back home." This! Exactly why I come here to participate in the lessons as much as one can from far away.
Thanks for sharing. I am happy to hear!
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this gentle collaboration Anthony. I felt a good shift in this young man, as you do what you do so effortlessly. Much gratitude
Much appreciated!
A great demonstration Anthony! Although only briefly mentioned, it’s very interesting to hear the relationship between something like the Alexander technique, association and the rise in such attention disorders such as ADHD. Would love a deeper dive on subjects like this, especially with diagnoses being so prevalent in today’s society. Props to Tommy in this video too, he felt like the perfect student and really thought about his answers on how he felt. Thanks for sharing!
Many thanks for your comments. Good points.
I love table work when it comes to the Alexander Technique. From someone who suffers from lower back pain, iv taken tips from your videos to get in the most relaxed state as possible. It’s hard to find Alexander Teachers here in the US.
Thanks for sharing. I hope you find a good teacher near you.
Extremely interesting, equally relaxing to watch 🙏🏻 happy new year and thanks for uploading again Anthony
With pleasure
Thank you very much for sharing those videos Anthony :-)
I’d like to make a remark on this video too :-/. I hoop you don’t mind. It did not feel natural to separate the audio tracks of the pupil and of the teachers on two different channels left and right as from the viewing angle of the video both should come from the same place.
I thought it was merged, but maybe not. I will always try and keep the tierces merged in the future. Thanks for sharing.
Watch more Alexander Technique Videos:
Richard and Elisabeth Walker's Training School, 1989:
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Alexander Technique, Muscle Pain & Computer Work:
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Alexander Technique & Relaxation, March 2019:
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Welcome
Great video as always, thank you. Please stop mid film ads 🙏
Hi, enjoyed the video but you might have to change your settings to stop ads interrupting. They ruin the calm of the video.
Noted!
HOW HIGH IS THAT STOOL?
Normal height
What is this for and how do i get my own technique training??
If you send me a pm, I can make suggestions.
It seems to me that when someone identifies a problem that has not been satisfactorily fulfilled medically, they are primed and motivated to seek resolution through other means.
While there are documented benefits of alternate care, they are primarily gained through protracted, attentive concern, repetitive touch, soothing voice and the relative confidence of the practitioner - which primary medical services may lack due to high volume throughput. I would suggest the Alexander technique falls into this grey area of therapy, and has no verified, double blind control evidence to support any specific health problems, but may very well make the patient 'feel' better for mundane or non specified, placebo reasons.
If I could bottle the benefits of placebo, I would be very wealthy. Of course Alexander makes people feel better and get healthier. And we may not know the true mechanisms of this effect. Same with Yoga and meditation.Unfortunately we in the Alexander world do not have millions of pounds to do rigorous controlled trials. We are not Big Pharma. But we have a number of scientific data on the efficacy of the AT for back pain as well as Parkinsons, that is in the public domain and published. But of course you are quite right: The care, attention, safety, kindness, time and non-threatening touch are all part of the healing process. And it takes a minimum of 3 years to begin to develop these qualities, They are by no means easy to acquire!!
Thanks for responding. I'll offer a final note and retire the conversation.
The amount of money required for extensive testing is generally for drugs or other direct treatments because that's simply good risk management that most governments demand and pharmaceutical companies foot the bill for - some tests last 5 or more years with no return on that expenditure.
I would suggest you could test for the efficacy of the Alexander by isolating or modifying the techniques to determine which ones, (or combinations) are effective. For example. Have the client in a dark room. Do not speak during the treatment. Use an instrument for touch instead of hands. Introduce offensive sounds or odors during treatment. If the results are found with one or more, you can then isolate your focus into those areas for further examination. If they are not, then we should expect the cause of the client's issues to be chemically, genetically, biologically or psychologically based. If so, professionals in those areas should be sought out.
It seems to me, attributing a technique to teasing a placebo is doing something with a couched explanation (Dumbo's magic feather), and as such may cause further harm to clients by suggesting medical care is no longer required. Case in point: AA is renowned for it's 12 steps that have nothing to do with the chemistry or causes of addiction, yet pretends it does through diversion. For some, it offers a distraction to cover the problem without addressing it, and the rate of recidivism is actually higher than other therapies. If a client is noticing improvement through a placebo, they should be told so and then supported with their accomplishments and not by an unrelated treatment.
Not many humans relish the torment of others and health practitioners are especially susceptible to confusing sympathy with empathy, so they need to remain objective with their care even if they are dealing with subjective cases. Honesty, and the Hippocratic oath are cornerstones for this. @@AlexanderTechnique33
You know Diana?
Yes!
Oh man. I took a semester-long course on the AT and found it to be of ZERO value. Not everyone in my class felt that way…but many did. Perhaps we just had a terrible teacher.
Yes, try another Teacher! Good luck.