My book A Skill for Life first came out in 1999. In the beginning of 2020 my friendly editors at Crowood Press invited me to revise it for a second edition, ...

The Alexander Technique: A Skill for Life

The challenges of modern life are best met with poise, alertness, and nimbleness of mind and body. These attributes are our birthright, as demonstrated by every child at play. As adults, however, we tend instead to be hurried, inattentive, and stiff of mind and body. The Alexander Technique is an effective way of re-discovering our natural freedom and its resulting health and well-being.

In The Alexander Technique: A Skill for Life, I explain the principles of the Technique and illustrate its applications to medicine, personal relationships, sports and exercise, and the performing arts. You can read Chapter 2, The Use of the Self, including a short section on that most important of psychophysical activities, kissing. The book's section on music-making is titled Working to Principle.

A Skill for Life was published by The Crowood Press in England in 1999. A few years earlier I wrote its French version, which was published by Editions Dangles under the title La Technique Alexander: Principes et Pratique. When preparing A Skill for Life I made many changes to my original French project. The two books are therefore very different from each other. Subsequently I revised it again before the book was published in Japanese and then in Estonian.

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Playful Self-Awareness

Self-awareness is the most serious of all games. Over the years I wrote several blog series around this theme. Here they're categorized and indexed.

The Alexander Technique: A Skill for Life

Playful Self-Awareness

Reacting

Assumptions, Perceptions, Judgments

The meaning of "talent"

Deeply held cultural habits

Working on yourself