AT Promotion at a Worksafe Expo
Hobart November 2022by Craig Penney On Thursday the 3rd November 2022 Penny McDonald, Craig Penney and Leo Canales represented the Alexander Technique by having exhibition booths at the Safe Bodies, Safe Minds Expo held at the MyState Bank Arena in Hobart Tasmania. Penny and Leo are on the mailing list for Business Tasmania, this is…
Remembering Margaret Goldie
Recollections of a grateful pupil, by John Hunter (originally published in STATnews) (Some parts of this essay were previously published in my blog upward-thought.com) It is now, at the time of writing this, some twenty-five years since Margaret Goldie died on 25th January 1997. There is a continuing interest in her and her approach to…
AT Connect – Megan Taylor
How did you get into the AT? I was a musician (cellist) living in London, with a dysfunctional back and bad RSI in the arms. Luckily I was referred to Wilfred Barlow by an orthopaedic specialist. After some reluctance I went to see him and he kindly sent me to Cheryl Gardiner, a wonderful teacher.…
Dopamine Nation
Resetting the pleasure/pain balance By Dr. Anna Lembke Book Review by Meredith Connie In the written works of F.M. Alexander I have always been fascinated by the idea that Alexander Technique is some kind of panacea for the problems of the world – and there is a thread that runs through the AT community that…
Frederick Matthias Alexander : His Life and times
By Rosslyn McLeod Much is being said at present about Alexander’s writings and how they should be interpreted. It is useful to talk of these matters and look back at the times they were written in, but we will never really understand them. Nowadays we have such huge stimulus about events all around us, so…
Rehearsal and Performance
Alexander Technique applied to the rehearsal and performance of a playNotes on the process from Penny McDonald – Alexander Teacher and Director of True West. As I send this article to the editor, I am half-way through a season of a True West by Sam Shepard. I directed this play with two of my Alexander…
Putting a motion the means whereby
PUTTING A MOTION – THE MEANS WHEREBYBy Chris Raff, 1st Feb 2018 At the last AGM it was suggested that AUSTAT Council develop guidelines for placing motions before an AGM. Motions work as written instructions for Council by the membership to be used as an addition to or an extension of the AUSTAT Constitution. These…
What has this got to do with the Technique?
‘… even the gentle pressure of footfall on a slow walk has a big impact on blood flow to the brain. Studies by Dick Greene at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas and his colleagues suggest that when our feet hit the ground, their arteries are compressed. This increases turbulence in the blood, providing…
Posture, ergonomics and wellbeing
Article in the Australian Dental Association’s (ADA) monthly ‘Bulletin’ magazine, featuring AUSTAT member, Aniko Ball. When it comes to the importance of physical wellbeing in dentistry, it appears there’s both good news and bad news on the contemporary report card. According to a variety of international studies, like the Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Disorders in Dentists…
