Body Learning: The Alexander Technique
Episodes
Alexander Technique Teacher Describes Typical First Few Lessons With A New Student Episode
01 Dec 2025
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Send us a textAlexander Technique Rena Anya Deveza interviews Robert Rickover about how he typically teaches the first few online lessons with a new s...
Alexander Technique Conscious Control: Marjorie Barstow 1 Minute Clip
06 Nov 2025
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Send us a text(Audio begins in 15 seconds)Marjorie Barstow was the first graduate of F. Matthias Alexander's first training course in 1934. This ...
Concentration: Powerful Skill or Harmful Habit? - Part 1
12 Sep 2025
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Send us a textRobert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmingto...
Concentration: Powerful Skill or Harmful Habit? - Part 4
12 Sep 2025
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Send us a textRobert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmingto...
Concentration: Powerful Skill or Harmful Habit? - Part 3
12 Sep 2025
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Send us a textRobert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmingto...
Concentration: Powerful Skill or Harmful Habit - Part 2
12 Sep 2025
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Send us a textRobert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmingto...
Concentration: Powerful Skill or Harmful Habit? - Introduction
12 Sep 2025
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Send us a textRobert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmingto...
An Alexander Technique teacher talks about how the AT helps her with her ongoing long COVID recovery
08 Sep 2025
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Send us a textRena Deveza, an Alexander Technique teacher in New York City, talks with Robert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebra...
Short Introduction to the Alexander Technique
22 Aug 2025
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Send us a textBrief introduction to the Alexander Technique.More information: https://AlexanderTechnique.com
Metronome Therapy and the Alexander Technique
02 Jul 2025
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Send us a textRobert Rickover and Imogen Ragone talk about Metronome Therapy and how it can be useful to Alexander Technique students and teachers. Ro...
Alexander Technique Directions, Inhibition and a new way of thinking about Body Wisdom
19 Jun 2025
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Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers, trainees and students.) Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexan...
Breathing and the roles of the conscious and the unconscious brain
14 Jun 2025
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Send us a textMore information about the Alexander Technique: https://alexandertechnique.comResources for Alexander Technique self study: https://alex...
An incredibly simple way to move with greater ease and less tension
14 Jun 2025
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Send us a textRobert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about a simple and effective way to st...
Chakra Healing Therapy and the Alexander Technique
07 Jun 2025
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Send us a textGlen Park, an Alexander Technique teacher in England talks with Robert Rickover about how Chaka Healing and the Alexander Technique can ...
Exercise, Diet, Health and Longevity: What we Know and how the Alexander Technique can Help
30 May 2025
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Send us a textRobert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about studies measuring the health and...
Thinking like Leonardo da Vinci
22 May 2025
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Send us a textDr. Fred Moss, MD, creator of the Welcome to Humanity Podcast, Interviews Michael Gelb, an Alexander Technique teacher and the author of...
A simple Alexander Technique self-direction that can change your life
19 May 2025
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Send us a textRobert Rickover and Imogen Ragone discuss a simple and powerful new Alexander Technique self-direction with far-reaching implications fo...
An Alexander Technique Student's Experience with Constructive Rest
02 May 2025
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Send us a textCelese Ditter, an Alexander Technique student and middle school music teacher in Columbus, Nebraska talks with Robert Rickover about the...
An Alexander Technique Student's Experience with Constructive Rest - Part 2
23 Apr 2025
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Send us a textCelese Ditter, an Alexander Technique student and middle school music teacher in Columbus, Nebraska talks with Robert Rickover about the...
No Cost Alexander Technique Lessons - Check in after 6 Months
20 Apr 2025
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Send us a textMore information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.comResources for Alexander Technique self study: AlexanderTechnique.c...
How the Alexander Technique differs from other techniques
23 Dec 2024
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Speaking and the power of the Pause
19 Dec 2024
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A Powerful Alexander Technique Mind Bender
14 Dec 2024
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Send us a textInformation about the No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project: https://alexandertechnique.com/freeMore information about the Alexande...
No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project
23 Nov 2024
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Send us a textInformation about the No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project: https://alexandertechnique.com/freeMore information about the Alexande...
Trauma and Chronic Stress - How the Alexander Technique can Help
28 Sep 2024
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Send us a textRobert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska, talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmingt...
Neuroscience and the Alexander Technique
02 Sep 2024
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Send us a textRobert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska, interviews Tim Cacciatore, Phd, an Alexander Technique teacher and n...
Short Alexander Technique Description
28 Jun 2024
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Send us a textPredrag Vlatkovic, Editorial Coordinator of MysticMag, interviews Robert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska, ab...
Why do we need to use Alexander Technique Self-Directions to Improve our Functioning?
13 Jun 2024
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Send us a textImogen Ragone and Robert Rickover discuss this question and provide some possible explanations. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com ...
A Simple Alexander Technique Self-Direction That Can Change Your Life - Part 2
13 Jun 2024
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Send us a textnRobert Rickover and Imogen Ragone return to an earlier discussion about an Alexander Technique self-direction in order to address a que...
A Useful Alexander Technique Constructive Rest Ad-On
12 Jun 2024
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Send us a textAlexander Technique Constructive Rest is a useful process that anybody can use, as it requires no special training or skill. Robert Rick...
A simple Alexander Technique self-direction that can change your life
25 Jan 2024
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Send us a textRobert Rickover and Imogen Ragone discuss a simple and powerful new Alexander Technique self-direction with far-reaching implications fo...
A Little Bit of Nothing
10 Nov 2023
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Send us a textMarjorie Barstow would often say, at the end of one of her four week long Alexander Technique workshops: When you get home, and people a...
Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 6
24 Jul 2023
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Send us a textAmanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Techniqu...
Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 5
24 Jul 2023
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Send us a textAmanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Techniqu...
Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 4
24 Jul 2023
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Send us a textRobert Rickover continues his discussion with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about F. Mathias Al...
Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 3
24 Jul 2023
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Send us a textAmanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Techniqu...
Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 2
24 Jul 2023
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Send us a textAmanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Techniqu...
Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 1
24 Jul 2023
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Send us a textAmanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Techniqu...
Your Body and your Mind: More Tightly Knit than you could ever have Imagined - Part 3
22 Feb 2023
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Send us a textRobert Rickover continues his discussion with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about F. Mathias Al...
Your Body and your Mind: More Tightly Knit than you could ever have Imagined - Part 1
24 Jan 2023
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Send us a textRobert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about F. Mathias Alexander's use ...
Your Mind and your Body - More tightly knit than you could have ever Imagined - Part 2
24 Jan 2023
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Send us a textRobert Rickover continues his discussion with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about F. Mathias Al...
Guided Constructive Rest with Heather Gardner
02 Dec 2022
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Send us a textThis talk was given live during a session at the third annual ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2022, and is designed t...
The implications of the Alexander Technique self-direction "I'm not doing" and it's variants
18 Nov 2022
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Send us a textRobert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone about the effectiveness of the Alexander Technique self-direction "I'm not doing"...
Can you achieve perfection with the Alexander Technique?
18 Nov 2022
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Send us a textRobert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about perfection and the Alexander Tec...
F. M. Alexander's 4 Book Titles: An interpretation of what they mean, and how they relate to each other.
10 Nov 2022
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Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers and students. Zoom was acting up during this recording and there are some au...
The Alexander Technique and Power Poses
10 Nov 2022
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Send us a text(Zoom was acting up during the recording and there some audio glitches in Robert's side of the conversation.) Power Poses, develope...
Guided Constructive Rest with Imogen Ragone
08 Nov 2022
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Send us a textThis talk was given live during a session at the third annual ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2022, and is designed t...
Guided Constructive Rest with Meade Andrews
08 Nov 2022
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Send us a textThis talk was given live during a session at the third annual ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2022, and is designed t...
Guided Constructive Rest with Mary McCann
08 Nov 2022
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Send us a textThis talk was given live during a session at the third annual ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2022, and is designed t...
Guided Constructive Rest with Ariel Weiss
08 Nov 2022
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Send us a textThis talk was given live during a session at the third annual ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2022, and is designed t...
Guided Constructive Rest with Anne Johnson
08 Nov 2022
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Send us a textThis talk was given live during a session at the third annual ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2022, and is designed t...
Can Self Awareness be a Hindrance to effective Self Directing?
26 Aug 2022
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Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers and students.) Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Techni...
How to Easily Enhance the Power and Longevity of Power Poses - Part 2
23 Jul 2022
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Send us a textPower Poses, developed by Amy Cuddy and others, are postures associated with being powerful that help you feel and behave more assertive...
An Alexander Technique Lesson in Sitting Down and Standing Up - Part 2
23 Jul 2022
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Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers and students.) Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Techni...
General Eisenhower, D-Day, and a basic principle of the Alexander Technique
23 Jul 2022
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Send us a textRobert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about an crucial event in World War 2 ...
The Value of Alexander Technique Quotations Part 2: Examining a Quote by F. Matthias Alexander
23 Jul 2022
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Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers and students) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone discuss this quote by F. Mat...
An Alexander Technique Lesson in Sitting Down and Standing Up
13 Jul 2022
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Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers and students.) Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Techni...
How the Alexander Technique can Help You Regulate Your Nervous System
05 Jul 2022
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Send us a textRobert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about her work with regulation of the ...
An Alexander Technique Lesson in Sitting Down and Standing Up
05 Jul 2022
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Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers and students.) Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Techni...
The Value of Alexander Technique Quotations Part 1: Examining a Quote by Margaret Goldie
25 Jun 2022
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Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers and students) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone discuss this quote by Margar...
The Value of Alexander Technique Quotations
25 Jun 2022
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Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers and students) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone discuss the usefulness of sh...
How Self-Compassion Relates to the Alexander Technique
16 Jun 2022
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Send us a textImogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, talks with Robert Rickover about her thoughts on self-compassion ...
How to Easily Enhance the Power and Longevity of Power Poses
16 Jun 2022
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Send us a textPower Poses, developed by Amy Cuddy and others, are postures associated with being powerful that help you feel and behave more assertive...
Alexander Technique Inhibition: An Efficient and Practical Form of Outsourcing
16 Jun 2022
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Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers, trainees and students.) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Tec...
Alexander Technique: How can we learn to inhibit? - Part 3
04 Apr 2022
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Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers, trainees and students.) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Tec...
The power of the word "notice" for Alexander Technique teaching and self-direction
04 Apr 2022
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Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers, trainees and students.) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Tec...
The Alexander Technique origin story and how it affects Alexander teachers and students Today
25 Feb 2022
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Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers, trainees and students.) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Tec...
Alexander Technique: How Can We Learn To Inhibit? Part 2
25 Feb 2022
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Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers, trainees and students.) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Tec...
Alexander Technique and Choice - A Simple and Powerful Demonstration
31 Jan 2022
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Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers, trainees and students.) Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexan...
Alexander Technique: How Can We Learn To Inhibit?
31 Jan 2022
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Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers, trainees and students.) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Tec...
F. M. Alexander: The "Breathing Man" - and perhaps also The "Torso Man"
31 Jan 2022
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Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers, trainees and students.) Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexan...
Alexander Technique Directions, Inhibition and a new way of thinking about Body Wisdom
03 Dec 2021
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Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers, trainees and students.) Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexan...
Exercise, Diet, Health and Longevity: What we Know and how the Alexander Technique can Help
03 Dec 2021
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Send us a textRobert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about studies measuring the health and...
An incredibly simple way to move with greater ease and less tension
03 Dec 2021
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Send us a textRobert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about a simple and effective way to st...
A Simple and Practical way to Explore and Use Alexander Technique Inhibition
03 Dec 2021
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Send us a textImogen Ragone explores with Robert Rickover Margaret Goldie's approach to Inhibition using a simple Alexander Technique direction. ...
Guided Constructive Rest with Jano Cohen
14 Nov 2021
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Send us a textThis talk was given live during a session at the second annual ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2021, and is designed ...
Guided Constructive Rest with Anne Johnson
14 Nov 2021
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Send us a textThis talk was given live during a session at the second annual ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2021, and is designed ...
Guided Constructive Rest with Mary McCann
14 Nov 2021
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Send us a textThis talk was given live during a session at the fith annual ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in 2024, and is designed to be list...
Guided Constructive Rest with Imogen Ragone
14 Nov 2021
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Send us a textThis talk was given live during a session at the second annual ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2021, and is designed ...
An Alexander Technique teacher and teacher-trainer talks about his lessons with Margaret Goldie
21 May 2021
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Send us a textAnthony Kingsley, an Alexander Technique teacher and teacher trainer in London, England, talks with Robert Rickover about his lessons wi...
Margaret Goldie's approach to Alexander Technique Inhibition
19 May 2021
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Send us a textPenelope Easten, an Alexander Technique teacher in County Clare, Ireland, talks with Robert Rickover about why Miss Goldie viewed inhibi...
Chakra Healing Therapy and the Alexander Technique
14 Apr 2021
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Send us a textGlen Park, an Alexander Technique teacher in England talks with Robert Rickover about how Chaka Healing and the Alexander Technique can ...
Margaret Goldie’s teaching, and how F M Alexander developed the Alexander Technique - Part 7
14 Apr 2021
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Send us a textPenelope Easten, an Alexander Technique teacher in County Clare, Ireland, talks with Robert Rickover about the key differences between w...
Margaret Goldie’s teaching, and how F M Alexander developed the Alexander Technique - Part 6
14 Apr 2021
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Send us a textPenelope Easten, an Alexander Technique teacher in County Clare, Ireland, talks with Robert Rickover about why Miss Goldie emphasised al...
Margaret Goldie’s teaching, and how F M Alexander developed the Alexander Technique - Part 5
14 Apr 2021
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Send us a text This podcast is taken from the original video: https://youtu.be/spQ1uQLkZto Penelope Easten, an Alexander Technique teacher in County C...
Margaret Goldie’s teaching, and how F M Alexander developed the Alexander Technique - Part 4
14 Apr 2021
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Send us a textPenelope Easten, an Alexander Technique teacher in County Clare, Ireland, talks with Robert Rickover about working without hands or onli...
Margaret Goldie’s teaching and how F M Alexander developed the Alexander Technique - Part 3
14 Apr 2021
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Send us a textPenelope Easten, an Alexander Technique teacher in County Clare, Ireland, talks with Robert Rickover about how the Alexander technique b...
Margaret Goldie’s teaching and how F M Alexander developed the Alexander Technique - Part 2
14 Apr 2021
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Send us a textPenelope Easten, an Alexander Technique teacher in County Clare, Ireland, talks with Robert Rickover about why Miss Goldie was so angry,...
Margaret Goldie’s teaching and how F M Alexander developed the Alexander Technique - Part 1
14 Apr 2021
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Send us a textPenelope Easten, an Alexander Technique teacher in County Clare, Ireland, talks with Robert Rickover about how she came to have lessons ...
A Singer and Singing Teacher describes her experiences with the Alexander Technique
01 Mar 2021
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Send us a textJacqueline Navikov, a singer, singing teacher, and Alexander Technique teacher trainee in the Boston area talks with Robert Rickover abo...
The Power of Paradoxical Alexander Technique Directions
22 Feb 2021
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Send us a textRobert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about the effectiveness of Paradoxical...
The Alexander Technique Approach to Efficient Breathing
16 Feb 2021
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Send us a textRobert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about the the Alexander Technique appr...
An Eye/Head Movement Mystery in Search of an Explanation
06 Feb 2021
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Send us a textRobert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about a puzzling relation between eye ...
Rabbi Shefa Gold talks about her experience with the Alexander Technique
31 Jan 2021
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Send us a textRabbi Shefa Gold talks with Robert Rickover about the ways in which the Alexander Technique has helped her spiritual practice and her te...
Guided Constructive Rest with Mary McCann
26 Nov 2020
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Send us a textThis talk was given live during a session at the ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2020, and is designed to be listened...
Guided Constructive Rest with Andrea Bruno
20 Nov 2020
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Send us a textThis talk was given live during a session at the ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2020, and is designed to be listened...
Guided Constructive Rest with Meade Andrews
15 Nov 2020
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Send us a textThis talk was given live during a session at the ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2020, and is designed to be listened...
It Really IS the Use of the Whole Self!
09 Nov 2020
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Send us a textDebi Adams, an Alexander Technique teacher in the Boston area talks with Robert Rickover about the power of her self-discovery and the n...
360 Degrees of Awareness with the Alexander Technique
02 Nov 2020
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Send us a textRobert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Lincoln, Nebraska talks with Eileen Troberman about the usefulness of a wide field of...
How the Alexander Technique has influenced Centered Riding
29 Oct 2020
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Send us a textMargreet Bouwmeester, a Dutch Alexander Technique Teacher and Level 4 Centered Riding Clinician, talks with Robert Rickover about the pr...