These teaching aphorisms from Alexander's lessons provide succinct insights into the working of the Alexander Technique. Readers familiar with the Technique will discover much of interest – especially concerning the influence which habit and feeling have on human behaviour. The beautiful, meditative illustrations were created by the artist Birgit Meyer-Woycke, who has studied the Alexander Technique for many years. £5.00

Hardback, 96 pages, 48 ink illustrations

More details: Aphorisms

"Sensory appreciation conditions conception – you can't know a thing by an instrument that is wrong."

"You are not here to do exercises or to learn to do something right, but to get able to meet a stimulus that always puts you wrong and to learn to deal with it."
F. M. Alexander

The above are two of 121 quotations from Alexander's lessons collected in the 1930s. These concise and sharp observations capture the spirit of the Alexander Technique: the appeal to awareness and reason as a way of life.

The book is pocket size.

Contents

Foreword by Mary Holland.
121 aphorism with 48 illustrations.
Detailed index.

"It's not getting in and out of chairs even under the best of conditions that is of any value: that is simply physical culture. It is what you have been doing in preperaton that counts when it comes to making movements."	Two of the 48 ink illustrations accompanying the aphorisms.

Book production notes

First published by Mouritz June 2000.

Hardback, 96 pages, 158 x 108 mm, 48 illustrations. Printed on 90 gsm acid-free paper. ISBN 0-9525574-9-5.

Errata

None reported.