The Alexander Technique: A Complete Course in How to Hold and Use Your Body for Maximum Energy

by John Gray

Overview

The Alexander Technique is a proven process of mind and body reeducation that reduces stress and muscle tension, and revitalization those who practice it. Used by many actors, athletes, and dancers, the technique can help anyone increase his or her energy and achieve a more dynamic presence.

Written by a veteran instructor of the Alexander Technique, this authentic and easy-to-follow guide allows everyone to learn the increasingly popular program, with clear instructions for each exercise, and dozens of helpful photographs that show correct and incorrect positions to use for the exercises and throughout the day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312064945
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/15/1991
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	517,467
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

John Gray has taught the Alexander Technique for more than twenty years. He lives in England.

Hometown:

San Francisco, California

Date of Birth:

1951

Place of Birth:

Houston, Texas

Education:

B.A., M.A., Maharishi European Research University; Ph.D., Columbia Pacific University, 1982

Website:

http://www.marsvenus.com/

Editorial Reviews

Like other brilliant techniques, Alexander is tremendously simple but difficult to practice well. With John Gray one can enrich one's experience enormously. His teaching has been of great help to me.” —Kenneth Branagh, star and director of film Henry V

From the Publisher

After acknowledging that there already are numerous books on the Alexander Technique, Gray, a British former actor and current teacher of the technique, has written still another, designed to take the mystery out of the subject. Although wordy at times, his book is reasonably clear, with each chapter discussing the theory behind the technique and giving specific exercises the reader can do on his or her own. The content is very similar to Sarah Barker's The Alexander Technique: Learning to Use Your Body for Total Energy ( LJ 1/91) and Judith Leibowitz and Bill Connington's The Alexander Technique ( LJ 7/90). Libraries that already have these two titles, which are aimed at an American audience, do not need to consider Gray's, which is more British oriented. Recommended for libraries where there is an extensive demand for books on this subject or where copies disappear quickly.-- Natalie Kupferberg, Brooklyn Coll. Lib., New York

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