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Articles and other writings on the Technique
by Tim Soar
This page allows you to download a few things I’ve written about the Alexander Technique as pdf files which you can read on screen or print.
They are free for private and educational use, but let me know if you want to use any of this material commercially.
Semi-supine hand-out sheet
One illustrated A4 sheet with guidelines for practising semi-supine (lying with your head on books)
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Essay: Creative Attention
Primarily aimed at other Alexander teachers, this essay presents some of my personal thoughts on Alexander Technique hands on work.
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Article: An Introduction to the Principles of the Alexander Technique
Three A4 sheets
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Manual: Defining the Alexander Technique
This started out as a series of hand-outs for my pupils.
When it outgrew that format I published it (1999) as a loose-leaf manual.
Now it’s an e-book.
The illustrations are by Aron Czerveny
31 A4 sheets as separate A4-sized .pdf files, including a contents list and two colour plates.
- Contents page
- 1. The Lying Down Procedure
- 2. Use Affects Function
- 3. Non-Doing and Working on the Table
- 4. Pulling Down, Going Up and Appropriate Tension
- 5. The Startle Pattern and the Relationship Between the Head, Neck and Back
- 6. Giving Directions
- 7. Working on the Chair
- 8. The Balance of the Head
- Colour Plate: The Balance of the Head
- 9. Lengthening and Widening
- 10. Frederick Matthias Alexander
- 11. Breathing
- 12. Inhibition
- 13. The Kinaesthetic Sense
- 14. The Primary Control
- 15. The Process of Change
- 16. Monkey
- 17. The Legs and Feet
- 18. Antagonistic Pulls, Gravity and Positions of Mechanical Advantage
- 19. The Pelvis
- Colour Plate: The Pelvis
- 20. Emotional Issues
- 21. The Shoulders, Arms and Hands
- 22. Philosophy
- 23. Spirals in Muscles and Movement
- 24. A New Science
- 25. Secondary and Tertiary Directions
- 26. The Whispered Ah!
- 27. Hands on the Back of the Chair
- 28. Where to Go from Here