The Alexander Technique was invented far before any of us were born. It was created in an age of few freedoms, where science and society crushed individuality. It was in such an age that the discoverer of the Alexander Technique—a radical in a proper Victorian suit—counseled us to wait.
Wait we did, and while waiting, science changed though managing to stay the same in its effect. Today, physics openly suggests that human choice is a myth, that we are images, holograms of some universe that mirrors ours.
If the new physics calls into question the very idea of choice, we can turn that on its ear. If we are but images, we may also be the stuff of our own highly individual imagining. Our highest expression of choice may be waiting. F. M. Alexander, the discoverer of the Alexander Technique would love that.
The Alexander Technique fosters change, our moment-to-moment thinking about ourselves. You are called on by the new physics to be a tool, an unwitting reflection of some unknown universe.
To hell with that.
You are called by Alexander Technique to be a chooser, to claim your birthright as a new kind of individual, independent, redeeming the old and claiming the new: There is nothing either bad or good but thinking makes it so.
Claim it.
That’s why you, like musicians Joyce di Donato, Lupita Nyong’o, and Sir Colin Davis, study Alexander Technique. Imagine that.
Come, and have a lesson via Zoom or in person.
Choose–advocate–for yourself.
