Send us a text Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about studies measuring the health and longevity benefits of diet and exercise, and their implications for the Alexander Technique. A summary of those studies can be found here: nytimes.com/2021/09/29/well/move/exercise-weight-loss-longe…

Send us a text Dr. Fred Moss, MD, creator of the Welcome to Humanity Podcast, Interviews Michael Gelb, an Alexander Technique teacher and the author of many books, including How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci. Michael explains why the principles of the Alexander Technique lie at the core of his many projects and interests. Welcome to Humanity Podca…

Send us a text Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone discuss a simple and powerful new Alexander Technique self-direction with far-reaching implications for all facets of your life. Imogen teaches in Wilmington, Delaware. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com You can learn more abo…

Send us a text Celese Ditter, an Alexander Technique student and middle school music teacher in Columbus, Nebraska talks with Robert Rickover about the ways in which Constructive has helped her and her students Celeste is also the star of the No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project: AlexanderTechnique.com/free Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqu…

Send us a text Celese Ditter, an Alexander Technique student and middle school music teacher in Columbus, Nebraska talks with Robert Rickover about the ways in which Constructive has helped her and her students. Celeste is also the star of the No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project: AlexanderTechnique.com/free Robert's website: AlexanderTechniq…

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Send us a text Information about the No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project: https://alexandertechnique.com/free More information about the Alexander Technique: https://alexandertechnique.com Resources for Alexander Technique self study: https://alexandertechnique.com/selfstudy Alexander Technique Podcast: https://bodylearningcast.com Alexander…

Send us a text Information about the No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project: https://alexandertechnique.com/free More information about the Alexander Technique: https://alexandertechnique.com Resources for Alexander Technique self study: https://alexandertechnique.com/selfstudy Alexander Technique Podcast: https://bodylearningcast.com Alexander…

Send us a text Information about the No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project: https://alexandertechnique.com/free More information about the Alexander Technique: https://alexandertechnique.com Resources for Alexander Technique self study: https://alexandertechnique.com/selfstudy Alexander Technique Podcast: https://bodylearningcast.com Alexander…

Send us a text Information about the No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project: https://alexandertechnique.com/free More information about the Alexander Technique: https://alexandertechnique.com Resources for Alexander Technique self study: https://alexandertechnique.com/selfstudy Alexander Technique Podcast: https://bodylearningcast.com Alexander…

Send us a text Robert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska, talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware about her work with people suffering from trauma and chronic stress. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com Alexander Technique Teachers of G…

Send us a text Robert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska, interviews Tim Cacciatore, Phd, an Alexander Technique teacher and neuroscientist living in England, about what neuroscience can say about the effective use of Alexander Technique directions. Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about Tim…

Send us a text Predrag Vlatkovic, Editorial Coordinator of MysticMag, interviews Robert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska, about the Technique for the MysticMag Blog. MysticMag website: MysticMag.com Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about the Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com Short article …

Send us a text Imogen Ragone and Robert Rickover discuss this question and provide some possible explanations. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about Constructive Rest: AlexanderTechnique.com/ConstructiveRest More information about the Alexander Technique:…

Send us a text nRobert Rickover and Imogen Ragone return to an earlier discussion about an Alexander Technique self-direction in order to address a question about it's usefulness when you want to let your mind be free. Imogen teaches in Wilmington, Delaware. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska. Website: AlexanderTec…

Send us a text Alexander Technique Constructive Rest is a useful process that anybody can use, as it requires no special training or skill. Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone discuss a simple ad-on that can help you improve the coordination between your legs. Imogen teaches in Wilmington, Delaware. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches i…

Send us a text Marjorie Barstow would often say, at the end of one of her four week long Alexander Technique workshops: When you get home, and people ask you what you learned in Nebraska, don't tell them 'a little bit of nothing.' In this conversation, Imogen Ragone and Robert Rickover discuss the implications of this admonition from several differ…

Send us a text Amanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and Barstow-inspired versions of the Technique. She draws on multiple sources, including a significa…

Send us a text Amanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and Barstow-inspired versions of the Technique. She draws on multiple sources, including a significa…

Send us a text Amanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and Barstow-inspired versions of the Technique. She draws on multiple sources, including a significa…

Send us a text Amanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and Barstow-inspired versions of the Technique. She draws on multiple sources, including a significa…

Send us a text Robert Rickover continues his discussion with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about F. Mathias Alexander's use of the term "psycho-physical." An earlier conversation was about why he used that phrase, and some of the implications of the meaning he assigns to it, and can be seen here: https://you…

Send us a text Amanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and Barstow-inspired versions of the Technique. She draws on multiple sources, including a significa…

Send us a text Robert Rickover continues his discussion with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about F. Mathias Alexander's use of the term "psycho-physical." Our previous conversation was about why he used that phrase, and some of the implications of the meaning he assigns to it, and can be seen here: https://y…

Send us a text Robert Rickover continues his discussion with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about F. Mathias Alexander's use of the term "psycho-physical." Their previous conversation was about why he used that phrase, and some of the implications of the meaning he assigns to it and can be seen here: youtu.be…

Send us a text Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about F. Mathias Alexander's use of the term "psycho-physical" - why he used it, and the implications of the meaning he assigns to it. This is the podcast that inspired our conversation: bodylearning.buzzsprout.com/382/313810-mind-body-u…

Send us a text This talk was given live during a session at the third annual ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2022, and is designed to be listened to while lying down in Constructive Rest. Heather is an Alexander Technique teacher in Philadelphia, PA. ATTGP (Alexander Technique Teachers of Greater Philadelphia) website: alextechgr…

Send us a text Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone about the effectiveness of the Alexander Technique self-direction "I'm not doing" and 2 variants: "I'm not doing anything" and "I'm not doing everything" and what what the implications are for the basic Alexander Technique principle that every aspect of us is connected to every other aspect, a…

Send us a text Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about perfection and the Alexander Technique. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert Rickover is an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska. Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com Their conversation centers on the fol…

Send us a text (This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers and students. Zoom was acting up during this recording and there are some audio glitches in Robert's side of the conversation.) Alexander wrote 4 books: "Man's Supreme Inheritance", "Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual", "The Use of the Self', and "The Universal…

Send us a text (Zoom was acting up during the recording and there some audio glitches in Robert's side of the conversation.) Power Poses, developed by Amy Cuddy and others, are postures associated with being powerful that help you feel and behave more assertively. Cuddy's TED talk, which helped popularized Power Poses: tinyurl.com/2p8ck4a3 Robert R…

Send us a text This talk was given live during a session at the third annual ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2022, and is designed to be listened to while lying down in Constructive Rest. Anne is an Alexander Technique teacher in Mt Airy, Philadelphia, PA. ATTGP (Alexander Technique Teachers of Greater Philadelphia) website: alex…

Send us a text This talk was given live during a session at the third annual ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2022, and is designed to be listened to while lying down in Constructive Rest. Mary is an Alexander Technique teacher in Philadelphia and Montgomery County, PA. ATTGP (Alexander Technique Teachers of Greater Philadelphia) …

Send us a text This talk was given live during a session at the third annual ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2022, and is designed to be listened to while lying down in Constructive Rest. Ariel is an Alexander Technique teacher in Philadelphia and Wallingford, PA. ATTGP (Alexander Technique Teachers of Greater Philadelphia) websi…

Send us a text This talk was given live during a session at the third annual ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2022, and is designed to be listened to while lying down in Constructive Rest. Meade is an Alexander Technique teacher in Lawrenceville and Princeton, NJ. ATTGP (Alexander Technique Teachers of Greater Philadelphia) websit…

Send us a text This talk was given live during a session at the third annual ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2022, and is designed to be listened to while lying down in Constructive Rest. Imogen is an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, DE. ATTGP (Alexander Technique Teachers of Greater Philadelphia) website: alextechgreat…

Send us a text (This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers and students.) Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about the possibility that self awareness can, paradoxically, actually get in the way of effective self-direction. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teach…

Send us a text Power Poses, developed by Amy Cuddy and others, are postures associated with being powerful that help you feel and behave more assertively. This podcast - an extension of a previous conversation on the topic to what you can do while sitting - shows how you can modify the the basic power poses to make them far more powerful and longer…

Send us a text (This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers and students) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone discuss this quote by F. Matthias Alexander, the developer of the Alexander Technique: You want to know if you're right. When you get further on you will be right, but you won't know it and won't want to know if you're right. I…

Send us a text Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about an crucial event in World War 2 and how it illustrates a fundamental Alexander Technique principle. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska and Toronto Canada. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com Bo…

Send us a text (This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers and students.) Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about an additional approach to Alexander Technique "Chair Work" that can be used for Online and In Person Teaching. (The original conversation can be seen here: …

Send us a text (This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers and students.) Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about an approach to Alexander Technique "Chair Work" that can be used for Online and In Person Teaching. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Oma…

Send us a text Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about her work with regulation of the nervous system, and how it is influenced by the principles of the Alexander Technique. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska and Toronto Canada. Website: AlexanderTechn…

Send us a text (This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers and students) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone discuss the usefulness of short, illustrated Alexander Technique Quotes. Imogen is an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert is an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Ne…

Send us a text (This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers and students) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone discuss this quote by Margaret Goldie, one of the first teachers trained by F. Matthias Alexander: If I ask you not to do something, there is no way you can do it right. Margaret Goldie website: AlexanderTechnique.com/MargaretG…

Send us a text Power Poses, developed by Amy Cuddy and others, are postures associated with being powerful that help you feel and behave more assertively. This podcast shows how you can modify the the basic power poses to make them far more powerful and longer lasting by using basic bio-mechanical and Alexander Technique principles. (You may find i…

Send us a text Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, talks with Robert Rickover about her thoughts on self-compassion and how it relates to, can be enhanced by, and is even integral to the Alexander Technique. Imogen's ideas on self-compassion are inspired especially by the latest book by Kristin Neff, Fierce Self-C…

Send us a text (This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers, trainees and students.) Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, talk about Alexander Technique Inhibition and how it can be thought of as "inner outsourcing." The importance of this was recognized by F. M. Alexander and man…