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... gives the reader an inside view of the thinking process behind the Alexander Technique. A must read for anyone seriously interested in exploring this educational method.
About the Book . Excerpt . The Author
The Act of Living: Talks on The Alexander Technique
The Author
Walter Carrington was born in 1915, the only child of the Rev. W.M. and Hannah Carrington. He was educated in the Choir School of All Saints, Margaret St., London and St. Paul's School. He first had lessons with Mr. Alexander in 1935 and joined his Training Course in 1936, qualifying as a teacher of the Technique in 1939. From 1941 to 1946 he served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force, after which he returned to work as an Assistant Teacher, and then carried on the Training Course after Mr. Alexander's death in 1955. He and his wife, Dilys, are Directors of the Constructive Teaching Centre Ltd. in London and he is a past Chairman of the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (S.T.A.T.).
Mistakenly selected, when young, for specialization in mathematics, Tris Roberts (Foreword) found himself, before the war, working in a Life Assurance Office and training, unsuccessfully, to become an actuary. The war brought a sharp change in direction, as he worked for a time in the accounts office of a hospital and studying at Chelsea Polytechnic in the evenings for a combined honours degree in Zoology, Physiology and Chemistry. During a first year (1946/7) as a graduate student in the Zoology Department at Edinburgh, he was invited to join Otto Lowenstein in the Glasgow Zoology Department to work on the neurophysiology of the otolith organs in the skate. In 1950, he was asked to set up experimental neurophysiology in the Physiology Department also at Glasgow. Thereafter, his lifetime study became the role of the labyrinth and other proprioceptors in balance, posture and locomotion in man and other animals. Dr. Tris Roberts is the author of three books: Neurophysiology of Postural Mechanisms, London: Butterworth. (1967, 2nd Ed. 1978); Understanding Balance, London: Chapman & Hall, 1995 (A completely revised assessment of the evidence presented in NPM above); and Equestrian Technique, London: J.A. Allen, 1992 (a textbook based on a distillation of the writings of the classical masters of equitation, with explanatory appendices, reflecting a lifetime extramural interest). He has written numerous papers and three teaching films. His hobbies, in historical order, include: gliding (pre-war only), dinghy sailing, swimming, squash (all now more or less discontinued), horse riding, and scientific writing (both still active).
Glynn Macdonald (Introduction) has taught the Alexander Technique for twenty-five years. She is a past Secretary and Chairman of The Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (S.T.A.T.). She has taught in the major English drama and music schools and has lectured throughout the world. Her television and radio appearances include Back to Work for the BBC, Does He Take Sugar, Woman's Hour and The Time, The Place and Saturday Morning for CBS. She works at Shakespeare's Globe in London, and has written The Complete Illustrated Guide to Alexander Technique, published by Element Books and Barnes and Noble.
Jerry Sontag
(Editor) is publisher and editor of Mornum Time
Press. Jerry is also a teacher of the Alexander Technique,
having trained at the Center for the Alexander Technique
in Menlo Park, California from 1982 through 1985. He has
a teaching practice in Berkeley & San Francisco.