Open Study of the Books of F. M. Alexander
In order to facilitate in-depth understanding of the work of F. M. Alexander, during 2015, Wednesday nights of week-long training events, 7-9pm, beginning Wednesday, March 4th, will focus on study of his four books.
Wednesday nights March 4th, May 6th, June 10, will focus on the study of Alexander’s 2nd book, “Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual” (1923).
The remainder of the year, Sept 14 and Nov 9, will take up Alexander’s first and last books: Man’s Supreme Inheritance (1910) and “The Universal Constant in Living” (1941).
In “Freedom to Change” (p. 44), Frank Pierce Jones states: “Alexander always considered CCC his most important book.” Carrington states in his book “Explaining the Alexander Technique” (at the beginning of the chapter concerning this work), that FM “thought that CCC was the book”!
In the March 4 class we will take up Part Two of CCC, which includes the all-important chapter entitled ‘Illustration’ providing a description of ‘hands on the back of a chair’ ; about which Walter Carrington states in his introductory comments:
“Teachers of the Technique do need to learn a special way of using their hands and [Alexander] would explain to us that by following this procedure, we could gain all the experience necessary for the purpose.”
These classes are open to all Alexander Technique trainees, graduates and teachers without charge.
Classes are led by Studio teacher, rj fleck. rj has been an Alexander practitioner for over a decade and certified as a teacher in 2007. He has been leading study and discussions of primary and secondary Alexander Technique source materials for the Sinclair Studio training program for the past several years.
