How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live: Learning the Alexander Technique to Explore Your Mind-Body Connection and Achieve Self-Mastery @ richardeward.com

How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live: Learning the Alexander Technique to Explore Your Mind-Body Connection and Achieve Self-Mastery
by Missy Vineyard
from Da Capo Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Best book on Alexander that I've read
  This book clarified key concepts like Inhibition and Direction in a way that no other book (and to some degree, my Alexander teacher) ever could.
  In addition, there's a lot of practical advice on applying AT to sports, music and other performing arts, and daily life. It's already helped my guitar playing.
  Buy it - you won't be sorry.
  

• A must read for all who care about their ability to function optimally, physically and mentally
  I have had back issues since I was 17 (now I know it was due to one short leg)and when I was about 30 I tried Alexander Technique. Now 30 yrs later I finally have in this book an explanation why this helped and a revelation about how far reaching this technique can be in confronting normal and abnormal body usage. Beautifully written with a deep understanding of much that Neuroscience has learned in the last few years.

• Life changing because the explainations align age old concepts with current research on brain chemistry and anatomy
  Alexander Technique is often difficult to understand without a teacher and many lessons. Missy Vineyard takes the reader a step closer by correlating current research with Alexander's discoveries about how to make optimum use of ourselves. She suggests ways of organizing what we are thinking with what our bodies are doing in order to achieve radically better results.

• The best book on the technique I have read
  I was introduced to the Alexander technique by a friend about 15 years ago following a car injury in which I suffered a herniated disc, severe pain in the arm and significant loss of muscle strength. I contemplated surgery which most of the doctors were recommending but decided to opt for less intrusive approaches including physical therapy and lessons in the Alexander technique.
  Over the last 15 years I have had numerous lessons and profited immensely from the wisdom of two highly talented... more info

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