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“My goal, and my only one, is to help you adjust your inner tempo, so that you do not lose pace with time.”

Marjory Barlow

About the Book . From the Author . Review . The Authors

An Examined Life

Marjory Barlow and The Alexander Technique
in conversation with Trevor Allan Davies

The Authors

Marjory Barlow (b.1915) is the niece of F.M. Alexander, the founder of the Alexander Technique. She began studying with her uncle in 1931, and began her teacher training with him in 1932. She spent her formative professional years working with him and his brother A.R. Alexander.

In 1950, with her husband Dr. Wilfred Barlow, she began the first training course for Alexander teachers after F.M. Alexander's own. In recent years Marjory has become more openly active and influential in the international Alexander community. She continues to live and work in London, and to give master classes to Alexander teachers from all over the world.

Trevor Allan Davies, born in Canada in 1952, trained as an Alexander teacher at the Centre for the Alexander Technique. He first met Marjory Barlow in 1991 for private lessons, and they began this book in 1993. For the F. Matthias Alexander Trust they recently made audio recordings of Alexander's four books, for release on CD-ROM.

After 20 years in the United Kingdom working in theatre, radio, and television, he returned to Western Canada in 1997, and now lives in Alberta, Canada teaching and performing there and in British Columbia, Ontario, Newfoundland, the United States, and the U.K.