Mindfulness in 3D: Alexander Technique for the 21st Century

It seems that it has always been this way. When Frank Pierce Jones wrote Freedom to Change, the publishers insisted that he call it Body Awareness in Action. Why?

The Alexander Technique isn’t humanity’s next evolutionary step, but it really could make an enormous difference if more people applied its principles. The world doesn’t need better posture – as I said, poor posture is a very First World problem. The world needs more people who can inhibit, can pause and reconsider before acting. People who are fre

“The ideal of ‘effortless action’, or wu-wei, refers to the dynamic, unselfconscious state of mind of a person who is optimally active and effective. People in wu-wei feel as if they are doing nothing, while at the same time they might be creating a brilliant work of art, smoothly negotiating a complex social situation, or even bringing the entire

have to change how they related to each other. And there's yet another problem with changing what we do. The thing we already do feels right and the new thing feels unfamiliar, or ‘wrong’. It’s much easier to do the old, familiar thing than to choose to do something that feels wrong. As FM Alexander said: “This experience of passing from a ‘known’