An introduction to the Alexander Technique DVD

- The Head Leads and the Body Follows

This DVD is an ideal introduction for health professionals and new or intending pupils. It features several well-known teachers of the Technique. £11.95

DVD-R, PAL (not NTSC which is used in the USA). Approx. 21 minutes. Produced by In Such A Way, Australia.

Note that a slight distortion of the picture quality has been reported in a few parts of this DVD production. It has not be possible to rectify this.

More details: An Introduction to the Alexander Technique

This introductory video to the Technique featues Marjory Barlow, Andrea Beesley, Rosemary Brenner, Peter Fisher, Misha Migadov, Jeremy Chance and others. Case histories are provided by a singer, a bricklayer, a draftsman and a clarinet soloist (Deborah de Graaf). The physiologist Archie MacIntyre talks on inhibition, and G. E. Coghill’s discoveries of the universal principle of all vertebral movement are explained. Schematic drawings of spine and head-neck positions and amusing cartoons are used to illustrate basic principles of the Technique. It also contains some good footage of young children moving.

This DVD was produced in Australia by Alexander teacher Rafaele Joudry and filmmaker Christine Eade in collaboration with the Alexander Technique community between 1993 and 1996.

NOTE: This is not a Mouritz production. However, Mouritz is the exclusive wholesaler of this DVD in the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe.

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