useful links
AmSAT - The American Society for the Alexander Technique
- The USA's professional association of Alexander Technique teachers. Find a certified teacher in your area to work with you, hands-on. Remote learning is not of comparable value to hands-on teaching, despite the widespread availability of online lessons. Get the real thing.
Alexander Technique Science
- Peer-reviewed Research on Mind, Movement, and Posture. This site is devoted to improving scientific understanding of the Alexander Technique (AT)—its principles, practices, reported and demonstrated benefits, and terminology.
Walter Carrington's AT training legacy
- The Constructive Teaching Centre in London carries on Walter Carrington's training for teachers of Alexander Technique, a continuation of F.M. Alexander's own teacher training.
AT and The Study of the Self
- Visit the Dimon Institute, where AT is uniquely explored as a basis for The Study of the Self. This site provides extensive neuroscientific, philosophical, and educational context around Alexander Technique. Recommended: Ted Dimon's Anatomy of Directing.
AT's origins, history and more
- Visit The Complete Guide to the Alexander Technique for a full compendium on the Technique, its practice and the organizations devoted to its teaching. Also see Wikipedia for a synopsis of AT's origins with founder F.M. Alexander, as well as AT's further history and its many applications.
Basics
- Recommended Reading: Body, Breath and Being, by Carolyn Nicholls. Nicholls has done a terrific job describing the process of learning the Alexander Technique, step by step, with very helpful pictures. Particularly valuable is the book's first chapter, which describes how to assume a powerful posture and practice called semi-supine, which you can do daily, on your own. There is no adequate substitute for in-person lessons, but this is a great introduction and companion to lessons with a trained Alexander Technique teacher.