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Comment from Rex Alexander

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:10:08 +0000

Rex Alexander's comments on the fact that the AT works even when we apply it wrongly raises some interesting issues.

Broken links to Libet talks repaired

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:53:17 +0000

Tim K kindly pointed out that the links from the Talks and Topics page to my talks on Benjamin Libet were broken - I hope they are now fixed. Libet was a cause of considerable excitement in AT circles at one stage but his later work, in my more considered view as expressed in Talk No 30 does not withstand serious scrutiny.

Marilyn Monroe and the Alexander Technique

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:46:47 +0000

This is surprising connection which Bryan Niblett has pointed out to me. I have put a link to the relevant page on the Marilyn Monroe website on the News and Reviews page.

The relevance of Rudolph Magnus

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:14:56 +0000

A new page entitled The relevance of Rudolph Magnus has been added. This pulls together the various references to Rudolph Magnus on the website and summarises his relevance to the AT.

Revised versions of Talks 19 and 20 on George Ellett Coghill added

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:29:38 +0000

George Ellett Coghill is a somewhat neglected figure in the AT despite the fact that he wrote the Appreciation included in The Universal Constant in Living. His work can be difficult to understand and difficult to relate to the AT. These two talks are an attempt to grapple with his ideas, especially those in his later work.

Updated versions of talks 16, 17 and 18 on Rudolph Magnus added

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:23:10 +0000

Rudolph Magnus' work had a major influence on Alexander's thinking even if Alexander did not always get him completely right. Magnus' work, especially his little known paper on The physiological a priori, remains a fertile source of insights into the neurophysiology of the AT.

Updated version of Talk No 15

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:43:49 +0100

The updated versions of Talks No 14 and 15 on Sir Charles Sherrington have now been posted. Sherrington was by far the greatest scientist to endorse Alexander publicly and his work on reflexes and the interaction between reflex and voluntary goes to the heart of what we do in the AT.

Updated versions of Talks 13 and 14; link to Conrdad and Karins website

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:10:47 +0100

I have updated the talks on Reflexes and the first of the two on Sir Charles Sherrington. The more I study Sherrington, the more relevant to our work I think he is.

Comment from Uri bar Zeev on the primary control paper

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:17:05 +0100

Uri is bothered by the fact that the primary control argument dates from the middle of the last century. Where is the new neurological research into the AT?

Comment from Malcolm Williamson

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:36:19 +0100

Malcolm Williamson comments on the Lund University paper.

The troublesome primary control

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:15:10 +0100

I have been bothered by the "primary control" since I first started reading seriously about the AT. I have at last done something about it. My paper and a compilation of Alexander's sayings about the primary control are now on my website at the link above.

Review of Judith Liebwitz book on the AT

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:43:41 +0100

Phil Evans has been confined to a wheelchair since he had a major car accident over thirty years ago. He has written an interesting, and inspiring, review of Judith Leibowitz's book on the AT. It is on the News-Reviews page at the link above.

Lund University research on head-neck relationship

Tue, 25 May 2010 16:36:46 +0100

Lund University has a research programme into various aspects of the head-neck relationship. This work is of obvious relevance to the AT. A brief description of the work and a link to PDF version of a longer paper summarising it are now available on the website - see the "Towards a neuroscience" page.

Comment on yoga and muscle stretching

Sun, 16 May 2010 17:02:44 +0100

Daniel Trumbull comments on stretching before exercise and wonders how this fits with yoga.

Comment on end-gaining

Sun, 09 May 2010 19:14:27 +0100

A reader of the website has raised the question of end-gaining. We all know its perils but seeing through the end-gaining tricks we use to stop ourselves end-gaining is no simple task.

Comment from Daniel Trumbull on stretching

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:44:39 +0100

Daniel Trumbull is a harpsichordist. He uses yoga to counteract the stiffening caused by the amount of sitting he has to do. Given that some yoga requires quite vigorous stretching, he wonders how this fits into the discussion on stretching.

Repairs to links on Talks and Topics page

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:15:39 +0100

Some broken links from the Talks and Topics page, reported by Uri, should now be working properly. Any news of problems is always welcome.

Welcome

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:58:43 +0100

Welcome to the new RSS/XML feed for my website.
Getting this set up and working has proved to be far more difficult that I ever anticipated. I am very grateful to Andy Howell for all the help he gave me.
I list all the changes on the site in the right sidebar on the first page with
the appropriate links. The date of the latest change is at the bottom of the sidebar.