Body Learning: The Alexander Technique

Concentration: Powerful Skill or Harmful Habit? - Introduction

Body Learning: The Alexander Technique

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Send us Fan Mail Robert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware in which we introduce our four conversations about the two types of concentration, why it is important to distinguish one from the other, and what F. M. Alexander had to say about them in his second book, "Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual". We discuss how this topic brings out aspects of F. M. Alexander's thinkin...

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