Writings
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Personal Harmony Now I A Burning Question at the recent 13th. Annual Alexander Congress in Dublin (August 3-9th. 2025): What is the future of the Alexander Technique? https://www.alexandertechniqueinternational.org/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=790&Itemid=115&year=2025&month=08&day=03&title=13th-international-alexander-technique-congress-in-dublin-ireland&uid=0b0b52e259e6b5b3b8a0a113b0539025 There seems to be a declining interest in AT for aspiring Alexander teachers, with less young people overall and less interest in training programmes. There are now…
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When we meet and accept a challenge, our higher and lower natures bang together. If we embrace them, something happens. In practical terms, the friction generates a fine/high quality of energy which then becomes available. In time, with experience and persistence, this fine energy begins to coalesce with other energies within us, and a body…
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Dear Crafty, Engaging with the House Rules, as engaging with any undertaking, is a process.(If of interest, scroll down to VI… https://guitarcraft.com/alexander-keynote/). A process has three stages: the beginning, the middle, the end.Conventionally exoteric, mesoteric, and esoteric stages. In the beginning, the HR are presented as an injunction: do this.Here, they are a code of conduct,…
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(Revised: September 12th. 2025) Honour necessity; honour sufficiency. Nothing is compulsory, but some things are necessary. No judgements are made: we accept each other as we arrive. There is no mistake, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake. Freedom from like and dislike is our first major freedom.Some people here you will like, others…
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On August 6th, 2025, at the 13th Alexander Technique Congress in Dublin, a theologian from New York asked RF a question: Q: Where does the Benevolent Creative Impulse come from?A: The Benevolent Creative Impulse comes from Love. Q: Are Love and the Creative Impulse the same?A: No. The Creative Impulse moves from Love, as Music…
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by Sandra Bain Cushman, featuring reports from Alexander Technique Teachers with experience in the context of Guitar Craft & The Guitar Circle.Published on the AMSAT Journal (May/June 2025 issue). Click to enlarge and navigate through pages…
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Accompanying Notes IComing Into The Space… ia Here we are.We’ve moved from the outside to the inside. b The outside world is outside.It has no hold on us, no demand upon our attention, no purchase on our feelings.It is outside. c This is inside. This is our world. d To move from the outside to…