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The Alexander Technique
from Wellspring Media
starring Jane Kosminsky, Deborah Caplan

Features:

• Color
• DVD-Video
• NTSC

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Back pain? get this now! AT lessons? Go to a certified AmSAT/STAT teacher first, THEN get this!
  The second segment with Deborah Caplan is laudable: pragmatic and practical, plus demonstrating with people who have real back pain how they can achieve functionality again and get their life back. One reviewer here was amused that Caplan shows how to eat soup, so obviously that reviewer is an ignoramus who does not have severe lower back pain: the eating the soup does not cause the pain, but there are people who cannot lean over to eat soup because of the excruciating pain that it leads to. Anyone who has... more info

• Pretty good.
  I tried reading a few books about the Alexander Technique but I couldn't grasp it from the books. The DVD allowed me to understand what the Technique was about. But even with the DVD, there are still a lot of aspects of the Technique that are not that clear. I suspect a live teacher would be better than the books and this DVD. The DVD is a good introduction. I liked the hosts.

• Breathe, Move, Be: "The Balance of Well Being"
  "The aim of this technique is not to teach you to do what is right, but to help you stop doing what is wrong, through a series of practical procedures which awaken your awareness and allow you to develop your innate potential."
  If I wanted to introduce the initiate to the Alexander Technique, I would suggest that they:
  1. Locate a qualified teacher and begin working with that teacher (see end of this DVD for information & see below **);
  2. Watch this DVD and begin doing the exercises of... more info

• well meaning but not terribly useful
  I bought this to supplement my Alexander Technique lessons, which I was doing once per week in a private one on one session. While this video does a nice job of explaining the nebulous technique, I was unimpressed. I did get some use out of the "constructive rest" segment, with her talking me through it, but I was hoping for something a bit more concrete and usable. Even as a seasoned student I felt a little unguided in this, for lack of a better word. I would imagine someone who has never taken a class or... more info

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