Body Learning: The Alexander Technique
A podcast devoted to all aspects of the Alexander Technique, a method of learning how to release harmful tension and perform all your activities with greater ease and freedom.
Episodes
551 episodes
Speaking and the power of the Pause
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A Powerful Alexander Technique Mind Bender
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8:26
No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project
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8:28
Trauma and Chronic Stress - How the Alexander Technique can Help
Robert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska, talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware about her work with people suffering from trauma and chronic stress. Imogen's website:
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Neuroscience and the Alexander Technique
Robert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska, interviews Tim Cacciatore, Phd, an Alexander Technique teacher and neuroscientist living in England, about what neuroscience can say about the effective use of Alexander Techni...
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44:54
Short Alexander Technique Description
Predrag Vlatkovic, Editorial Coordinator of MysticMag, interviews Robert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska, about the Technique for the MysticMag Blog. MysticMag website:
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14:27
Why do we need to use Alexander Technique Self-Directions to Improve our Functioning?
Imogen Ragone and Robert Rickover discuss this question and provide some possible explanations. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska. Website:
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A Simple Alexander Technique Self-Direction That Can Change Your Life - Part 2
nRobert Rickover and Imogen Ragone return to an earlier discussion about an Alexander Technique self-direction in order to address a question about it's usefulness when you want to let your mind be free. Imogen teaches in Wilmington, Delaware. ...
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16:24
A Useful Alexander Technique Constructive Rest Ad-On
Alexander Technique Constructive Rest is a useful process that anybody can use, as it requires no special training or skill. Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone discuss a simple ad-on that can help you improve the coordination between your legs. ...
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A simple Alexander Technique self-direction that can change your life
Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone discuss a simple and powerful new Alexander Technique self-direction with far-reaching implications for all facets of your life. Imogen teaches in Wilmington, Delaware. Imogen's website:
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A Little Bit of Nothing
Marjorie Barstow would often say, at the end of one of her four week long Alexander Technique workshops: When you get home, and people ask you what you learned in Nebraska, don't tell them 'a little bit of nothing.' In this conversation, Imogen...
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Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 6
Amanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and Barst...
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Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 5
Amanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and Barst...
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Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 4
Robert Rickover continues his discussion with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about F. Mathias Alexander's use of the term "psycho-physical." An earlier conversation was about why he used that phrase, and ...
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Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 3
Amanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and B...
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Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 2
Amanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and Barst...
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Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 1
Amanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and Barst...
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27:36
Your Body and your Mind: More Tightly Knit than you could ever have Imagined - Part 3
Robert Rickover continues his discussion with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about F. Mathias Alexander's use of the term "psycho-physical." Our previous conversation was about why he used that phrase, an...
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Your Body and your Mind: More Tightly Knit than you could ever have Imagined - Part 1
Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about F. Mathias Alexander's use of the term "psycho-physical" - why he used it, and the implications of the meaning he assigns to it....
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Your Mind and your Body - More tightly knit than you could have ever Imagined - Part 2
Robert Rickover continues his discussion with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about F. Mathias Alexander's use of the term "psycho-physical." Their previous conversation was about why he used that phrase, ...
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Guided Constructive Rest with Heather Gardner
This talk was given live during a session at the third annual ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2022, and is designed to be listened to while lying down in Constructive Rest. Heather is an Alexander Technique teacher in Philade...
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The implications of the Alexander Technique self-direction "I'm not doing" and it's variants
Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone about the effectiveness of the Alexander Technique self-direction "I'm not doing" and 2 variants: "I'm not doing anything" and "I'm not doing everything" and what what the implications are for the basic ...
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23:17
Can you achieve perfection with the Alexander Technique?
Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about perfection and the Alexander Technique. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert Rickover is an Alex...
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F. M. Alexander's 4 Book Titles: An interpretation of what they mean, and how they relate to each other.
(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers and students. Zoom was acting up during this recording and there are some audio glitches in Robert's side of the conversation.) Alexander wrote 4 books: "Man's Supreme Inheritance", "C...
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