Jeff Hall's Alexander Technique Blog

A personal insight into the meaning of the "Alexander Technique" by a STAT-trained AT teacher. The Alexander Technique is a philosophy as well as a great means to acquire body knowledge. It's great fun and life-enhancing. If you ever achieve perfection, you will only hold on to it for the briefest moment of time. See my web site at http://www.useoftheself.org or follow me on Twitter

Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Botox and Emotions

Just in case you have been considering paralysing your face muscles for reasons of vanity, perhaps after reading this post you will think t...

Thursday, 4 April 2013

Integrating the Alexander Technique into your life

On December 13th 2012, I had retinal surgery on my left eye. The operation was called an "epiretinal membrane peel" (EMP) and invo...

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Being in the "Now"

" The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. T...

Thursday, 22 September 2011

The Power of Attention

About a year ago I was sent a book " Faith and the Placebo Effect " by its author, Lolette Kuby. She had taken an interest in some...

Saturday, 10 September 2011

You really should read this

I have the privilege of calling Ian Robb a friend. You would go a long way to meet a nicer gentleman. I met Ian through my AT work when he...

Monday, 20 June 2011

AT in the Modern World

Oh dear! One of my worst fears about the Internet's effect on AT is coming true! I have today followed a link tweeted by Robert Rickover...

Thursday, 13 January 2011

Coping With Pain

December 2010 is going to be one of those months that I won't wish to remember. I was in hospital twice. The first time was for an eye o...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Choose Your Restaurant Table Carefully

Last week, Cas and I spent a week on the River Thames on our boat "Ten Forward" named after the recreation area on the USS Enterpr...

Wednesday, 4 August 2010

Love, Relationships and The Alexander Technique

A question that doesn't seem to be addressed very often in Alexander Technique blogs is how the practice of AT affects your love life an...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Heading in the Right Direction

You guessed it. It had to happen next. Now it's time to look at direction . It took Mr. Alexander 8 years to develop the "golden ...

Thursday, 11 February 2010

More About Inhibition

My previous article on inhibition was recently cited in a paper on inhibition posted on www.mindplusbody.co.uk . That article equated inhib...

Thursday, 21 January 2010

Can we define "inhibition"?

(I've re-posted this article to add dark blue colour to "hover links" for words that may be unfamiliar to you) In my 2007 po...

Monday, 7 December 2009

Which way is "Up"?

I cried the day my brother died. I had the rare privilege of having my "Alexander hands" on him as he took his last breath. I felt...

Thursday, 16 April 2009

What are the "AT Basics"?

I've been pondering this question for a number of years and I now find myself in a position where I must decide which aspects of AT that...

Sunday, 1 February 2009

It's time to protect our market

I've been thinking for a long time about how I can do justice to the subject of marketing AT services. My views on this subject have not...

Tuesday, 2 September 2008

The ATEAM Study

Last week, the British Medical Journal published the long-awaited results of an NHS-funded study into the effectiveness of AT in helping pe...

Saturday, 29 December 2007

Demystifying AT

Alexander's philosophy of " the Self" led me to believe that developing a more sophisticated use of my physical Self through ...

Thursday, 20 December 2007

The Right Way of Pulling

Last week I went to an AT workshop run by Ron Colyer, director of the Alexander Re-Education Centre . It was part 2 of a duet of classes ent...

Thursday, 6 December 2007

Changing the habits of a lifetime

Last week, I read an article in the 01 December issue of New Scientist about the subconscious mind. The article described a four-part model...

Tuesday, 16 October 2007

Let's Get Straight to the Point About End-Gaining

In teaching the Aexander Technique (AT), we talk about the principle of "end gaining". We almost accuse people of end gaining as i...

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