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... for anyone frustrated by the lack of spontaneity in daily life. An introduction to the Alexander Technique through activities.
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Curiosity Recaptured: Exploring Ways We Think and Move
Reviews
Curiosity Recaptured...goes a long way toward shedding some light on this mysterious but apparently effective way of dealing with the knots we tend to get ourselves into by the sheer fact of being alive. San Francisco Bay Guardian
The book provides a fascinating introduction to the Alexander Technique in daily life. - The Beaufort-Hyde News
Curiosity Recaptured is fascinating, insightful, challenging reading! - Midwest Book Review
This collection of 14 essays by Alexander teachers makes a captivating book...The themes are varied enough to suit anyone's tastes, running the gamut from giving birth to dealing with death and grieving along with activities such as walking, dancing, singing, cycling, acting, flute playing and playing tennis... - Direction Magazine
The essays look into the design of chairs, the practices of childbirth, the education of young musicians, as well as how we walk, play tennis, sing, dance, solve problems, and approach death. They explore the ways we think and move, toward the goal of greater freedom and joy. - Yoga Journal
The Alexander Technique is well-known for improving posture, breathing and bringing about a general release and freedom of movement. Ordinary introductory books to the Technique explain the general principles, but generalities often leave out the individual. The Alexander Technique teaches a better use (muscular use, for example) of the self. The Technique is applied by the self, the individual, and no other modern book better brings out the variety of application possible than Curiosity Recaptured Exploring Ways We Think and Move. This beautifully produced book contains 14 essays which have been written by experienced teachers of the Technique. Some of the subjects are dance, acting, playing the flute, childbirth, cycling, overcoming the fear of falling while walking, and meeting the unexpected. Many well-known teachers have contributed, including Edward Avak, Deborah Caplan, Walter Carrington, Mary Holland, Ron Murdock and Alex Murray. The beauty of the essays consists in showing not only how the Technique is applied by the individual, for the individual, but also how the Technique has helped people to observe and learn, discover and rediscover interests, skills, capacities and, above all, one¹s self (one¹s true nature in popular jargon). As Robertson Davies writes in the foreword: It [The Technique] is an enlargement of whatever life may be yours. As the Technique unlocks tension patterns, it brings out our sense of wonder and our delight in wondering. This particular characteristic of the Technique may be well-known among its practitioners but is not known generally, and it has certainly not been written about so extensively until now. Curiosity Recaptured allows you to share the authors¹ experiences of joy in learning and in being curious. Be curious about this book. It deserves your curiosity. - Jean M. O. Fischer, editor of Articles & Lectures: Articles, Published Letters and Lectures on the F.M. Alexander Technique and publisher at Mouritz Press