
Body Learning: The Alexander Technique
A podcast devoted to all aspects of the Alexander Technique, a method of learning how to release harmful tension and perform all your activities with greater ease and freedom.
Latest episodes

Mar 19, 2015 • 23min
Gravity, Support and Freedom - and the Alexander Technique - 4
Send us a textRobert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto Canada, talks with Imogen Ragone about ways we can effectively utilize the external forces of nature that operate on us - gravity, support, and atmospheric pressure - using Alexander Technique directions. Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com Imogen teaches in Wilmington, Delaware. Website: ImogenRagone.com Up With GravitySM information: UpWithGravity.net More podcasts in this series: BodyLearningCast.com/GravitySupportFreedom More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexTechExpress.com/support

Mar 18, 2015 • 22min
Gravity, Support and Freedom - and the Alexander Technique - 3
Send us a textRobert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto Canada, talks with Imogen Ragone about the way we are supported by whatever surface we are on at the moment - and about the upward force exerted by the surface which operates on us with the exact strength of the gravitational pull, but in the opposite direction. Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com Robert's blog on this topic: BodyLearningBlog.com/life-on-earth-where-powerful-forces-collide Imogen teaches in Wilmington, Delaware. Website: ImogenRagone.com Up With GravitySM information: UpWithGravity.net More podcasts in this series: BodyLearningCast.com/GravitySupportFreedom More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexTechExpress.com/support

Mar 17, 2015 • 21min
Gravity, Support and Freedom and the Alexander Technique - 2
Send us a textRobert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto Canada, talks with Imogen Ragone about the ways the gravitational force affects our posture, our movement, and our breathing, and how an understanding of those effects relates to some basic Alexander Technique ideas. Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com Imogen teaches in Wilmington, Delaware. Website: ImogenRagone.com Up With GravitySM information: UpWithGravity.net More podcasts in this series: BodyLearningCast.com/GravitySupportFreedom More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexTechExpress.com/support

Mar 16, 2015 • 15min
Gravity, Support and Freedom - and the Alexander Technique - 1
Send us a textRobert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto Canada, talks with Imogen Ragone about the history of gravity, and about what we know, and do not know about it, and how it compares with the other fundamental forces of nature. Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com Imogen teaches in Wilmington, Delaware. Website: ImogenRagone.com More podcasts in this series: BodyLearningCast.com/GravitySupportFreedom More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexTechExpress.com/support

Mar 10, 2015 • 15min
A Student talks about her Experiences with Skype Posture and Movement Coaching
Send us a textMavis Curry, a retiree and volunteer teacher in Des Moines, Iowa, talks about her Skype Posture and Movement Coaching sessions - which include the use of Alexander Technique Directions as well as Up With GravitySM principles - with Robert Rickover. Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More about Up With GravitySM: Up With GravitySM More information about the
Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexTechExpress.com/support

Mar 4, 2015 • 24min
The Alexander Technique, Chakra's and Chakra Therapy
Send us a textEmily Jeffers, an Alexander Technique teacher and Chakra Therapist in London, England, talks with Robert Rickover about the ways in which these two methods can complement each other. Emily's website: EmilyJeffers.com Robert teahes in Lincoln, Nebraska. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com For more information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexTechExpress.com/support

Feb 25, 2015 • 22min
A first Alexander Technique lesson with Ariel Weiss
Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers and students, although others may find it useful.) Ariel Weiss, an Alexander Technique teacher in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, speaks with Imogen Ragone about her approach to teaching a first lesson. Ariel's website: AlexanderTechniquePhiladelphia.com Imogen teaches in Wilmington, Delaware. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com For more information about the Alexander Tecnique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexTechExpress.com/support

Feb 18, 2015 • 24min
How the Alexander Technique can help you Stretch more Effectively
Send us a textRachel Bernsen, an Alexander Technique teacher in New Haven, Connecticut and Rye, New York, talks with Robert Rickover about how Technique can help you get the benefits of stretching without working against yourself
by creating excess tension in other parts of your body. Rachel's website: RachelBernsenAT.com Robert teaches in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto, Canada. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexTechExpress.com/suppor

Feb 9, 2015 • 18min
Finding the Floor - A Constructive Rest Talk-Through
Send us a textMastaneh Nazarian, an Alexander Technique teacher in Melbourne, Australia provides a guided talk-through of this useful process. Mastaneh's website: rediscoverease.com More information about the Alexander Technique: alexandertechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexTechExpress.com/support

Feb 6, 2015 • 49min
A first Alexander Technique lesson with Tommy Thompson
Send us a text(This podcast is primarily for Alexander Technique teachers and students, although others may find it useful.) Tommy Thompson, an Alexander Technique teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, speaks with Imogen Ragone about his approach to teaching a first lesson. Tommy's website: EaseOfBeing.com Imogen teaches in Wilmington, Delaware. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com For more information about the Alexander Tecnique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexTechExpress.com/support