Inside Yourself

– A New Way to Health Based on the Alexander Technique

by Louise Morgan

Inside Yourself is a fascinating account of how to teach yourself the Alexander Technique. Louise Morgan did not have lessons in the Technique but developed her own approach based on Alexander's books. Foreword by Aldous Huxley.  £12.95

New and reset edition. Paperback, 230 pages. October 2010.

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Louise Morgan was a remarkable and unique woman. She did not have lessons, instead she decided to discover the Technique for herself, following in Alexander’s footsteps. In this book she provides an account of her discoveries.

Louise Morgan describes the key principles of the Technique through examples of everyday activities, such as how to sit, how to bend, lifting, walking, achieving sound sleep, and speaking clearly and without fear. She is concerend with the fundamentals of the practice: how not to waste your energy, and how to move with less effort.

The fundamentals of the Alexander Technique – the ‘forward and up’ of the primary control, conscious control, the principle of ‘stopping’ as the basis for changing any habit – are described in straightforward and jargon-free language

As mind–body is a unity, posture and movement are not isolated from psychological factors, and Louise Morgan asks the reader to examine his or her attitude in different situations.

As Louise Morgan met and interviewed Alexander she had the opportunity to put on record some extraordinary stories from his experience of living and teaching the Technique. Alexander read her manuscript for the book shortly before his death in 1955.

The book also contains the inspiring case history of Miss ‘G.R.’ whose lessons in the Technique turned her life around.

Publication notes

First published 1954. Second edition published 13th October 2010 by Mouritz.

Paperback, 230 pages, 205 x 134 mm. ISBN 978-0-9543522-0-2.

Errata

None reported.