Body Learning: The Alexander Technique

A podcast devoted to all aspects of the Alexander Technique, a method of learning how to release harmful tension and perform all your activities with greater ease and freedom.

How the Alexander Technique differs from other techniques

Send us a textInformation about the No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project: https://alexandertechnique.com/freeMore information about the Alexander Technique: https://alexandertechnique.comResources for Alexander Technique self study: https://alexandertechnique.com/selfstudyAlexander Technique Podcast: https://bodylearningcast.comAlexander Technique Blog: https:bodylearningblog.comIntroduction to the No Cost Alexander Technique Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrwHz4NgzSIEpi...

12-23
07:54

Speaking and the power of the Pause

Send us a textInformation about the No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project: https://alexandertechnique.com/freeMore information about the Alexander Technique: https://alexandertechnique.comResources for Alexander Technique self study: https://alexandertechnique.com/selfstudyAlexander Technique Podcast: https://bodylearningcast.comAlexander Technique Blog: https:bodylearningblog.comIntroduction to the No Cost Alexander Technique Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrwHz4NgzSIEpi...

12-19
24:07

A Powerful Alexander Technique Mind Bender

Send us a textInformation about the No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project: https://alexandertechnique.com/freeMore information about the Alexander Technique: https://alexandertechnique.comResources for Alexander Technique self study: https://alexandertechnique.com/selfstudyAlexander Technique Podcast: https://bodylearningcast.comAlexander Technique Blog: https:bodylearningblog.comIntroduction to the No Cost Alexander Technique Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrwHz4NgzSIEpi...

12-14
08:26

No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project

Send us a textInformation about the No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project: https://alexandertechnique.com/freeMore information about the Alexander Technique: https://alexandertechnique.comResources for Alexander Technique self study: https://alexandertechnique.com/selfstudyAlexander Technique Podcast: https://bodylearningcast.comAlexander Technique Blog: https:bodylearningblog.comIntroduction to the No Cost Alexander Technique Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrwHz4NgzSIEpi...

11-23
08:28

Trauma and Chronic Stress - How the Alexander Technique can Help

Send us a textRobert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska, talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware about her work with people suffering from trauma and chronic stress. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com Alexander Technique Teachers of Greater Philadelphia website: AlexTechGreaterPhila.com More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.comOriginal video version:&...

09-28
38:11

Neuroscience and the Alexander Technique

Send us a textRobert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska, interviews Tim Cacciatore, Phd, an Alexander Technique teacher and neuroscientist living in England, about what neuroscience can say about the effective use of Alexander Technique directions. Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about Tim's work, and online classes, can be found at AlexanderTechniqueScience.com More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique....

09-02
44:54

Short Alexander Technique Description

Send us a textPredrag Vlatkovic, Editorial Coordinator of MysticMag, interviews Robert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska, about the Technique for the MysticMag Blog. MysticMag website: MysticMag.com Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about the Technique: AlexanderTechnique.comShort article based on this video: mysticmag.com/psychic-reading/interview-robertrickover

06-28
14:27

Why do we need to use Alexander Technique Self-Directions to Improve our Functioning?

Send us a textImogen Ragone and Robert Rickover discuss this question and provide some possible explanations. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about Constructive Rest: AlexanderTechnique.com/ConstructiveRest More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com

06-13
22:36

A Simple Alexander Technique Self-Direction That Can Change Your Life - Part 2

Send us a textnRobert Rickover and Imogen Ragone return to an earlier discussion about an Alexander Technique self-direction in order to address a question about it's usefulness when you want to let your mind be free. Imogen teaches in Wilmington, Delaware. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com You can learn more about Alexander Technique directions in general here: BodyLearningCast.com/teachers/directions . More informat...

06-13
16:24

A Useful Alexander Technique Constructive Rest Ad-On

Send us a textAlexander Technique Constructive Rest is a useful process that anybody can use, as it requires no special training or skill. Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone discuss a simple ad-on that can help you improve the coordination between your legs. Imogen teaches in Wilmington, Delaware. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about Constructive Rest: AlexanderTechnique.com/ConstructiveRest More in...

06-12
08:31

A simple Alexander Technique self-direction that can change your life

Send us a textRobert Rickover and Imogen Ragone discuss a simple and powerful new Alexander Technique self-direction with far-reaching implications for all facets of your life. Imogen teaches in Wilmington, Delaware. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com You can learn more about Alexander Technique directions in general here: BodyLearningCast.com/teachers/directions . More information about the Alexander Technique: Alexan...

01-25
35:22

A Little Bit of Nothing

Send us a textMarjorie Barstow would often say, at the end of one of her four week long Alexander Technique workshops: When you get home, and people ask you what you learned in Nebraska, don't tell them 'a little bit of nothing.' In this conversation, Imogen Ragone and Robert Rickover discuss the implications of this admonition from several different points of view. Imogen teaches the Alexander Technique in Wilmington, Delaware. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebr...

11-10
14:41

Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 6

Send us a textAmanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and Barstow-inspired versions of the Technique. She draws on multiple sources, including a significant collection of written correspondence between F. M. Alexander, Marjorie Barstow, Frank Pierce Jones and Professor John Dewey that provides a ...

07-24
35:33

Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 5

Send us a textAmanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and Barstow-inspired versions of the Technique. She draws on multiple sources, including a significant collection of written correspondence between F. M. Alexander, Marjorie Barstow, Frank Pierce Jones and Professor John Dewey that provides a new, ...

07-24
38:01

Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 4

Send us a textRobert Rickover continues his discussion with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about F. Mathias Alexander's use of the term "psycho-physical." An earlier conversation was about why he used that phrase, and some of the implications of the meaning he assigns to it, and can be seen here: https://youtu.be/b9NxHqCLuX8 In this video, they explore the subtle physical manifestations of simply thinking about speaking as a way of experiencing just how...

07-24
33:54

Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 3

Send us a textAmanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and Barstow-inspired versions of the Technique. She draws on multiple sources, including a significant collection of written correspondence between F. M. Alexander, Marjorie Barstow, Frank Pierce Jones and Professor John Dewey that provides a new, ...

07-24
35:33

Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 2

Send us a textAmanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and Barstow-inspired versions of the Technique. She draws on multiple sources, including a significant collection of written correspondence between F. M. Alexander, Marjorie Barstow, Frank Pierce Jones and Professor John Dewey that provides a new, ...

07-24
21:42

Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 1

Send us a textAmanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and Barstow-inspired versions of the Technique. She draws on multiple sources, including a significant collection of written correspondence between F. M. Alexander, Marjorie Barstow, Frank Pierce Jones and Professor John Dewey that provides a new, ...

07-24
27:36

Your Body and your Mind: More Tightly Knit than you could ever have Imagined - Part 3

Send us a textRobert Rickover continues his discussion with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about F. Mathias Alexander's use of the term "psycho-physical." Our previous conversation was about why he used that phrase, and some of the implications of the meaning he assigns to it, and can be seen here: https://youtu.be/b9NxHqCLuX8 In this podcast, they discuss more implications that flow from Alexander's concept of mind/body unity - specifically how an unde...

02-22
22:43

Your Mind and your Body - More tightly knit than you could have ever Imagined - Part 2

Send us a textRobert Rickover continues his discussion with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about F. Mathias Alexander's use of the term "psycho-physical." Their previous conversation was about why he used that phrase, and some of the implications of the meaning he assigns to it and can be seen here: youtu.be/b9NxHqCLuX8 In this video, they discuss specific examples of processes and activities that illustrate those implications. (As one point I mention a...

01-24
37:43

Josh Montez

Fantastic podcast. Wish Robert would update it more frequently though

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