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Almost all the interviews listed below - and a great many others - can be most easily accessed at the Alexander Technique Podcast Alexander Technique Teachers and Students Page

Tips for Presenting the Alexander Technique to Medical Professionals
Robert Rickover talks with Dr Anikó Ball, an Alexander Technique teacher and dentist in Melbourne, Australia, about her suggestions for what to do - and not do - when describing the Alexander Technique to doctors, dentists and other medical professionals. Anikó's website: OptimumDentalPosture.com Robert teaches in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto, Canada. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about medical and scientific research on the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com/research.htm Learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexanderTechnique.com/support

A Primary Care Doctor offers suggestions about how to approach Medical Professionals
Dr. Bryan McElroy, a primary care physician and Alexander Technique teacher trainee, talks with Robert Rickover about some useful ways to share informatlon about the Technique with medical professionals. Dr McElroy's website: bryanmcelroygp.com Robert teaches the Alexander Technique in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto, Canada. Podcasts with other medical professionals can be found here: bodylearningcast.com/medicine Robert's website: alexandertechniquenebraska.com. More general informaion about the Technique: alexandertechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexanderTechnique.com/support

The Pros and Cons of Alexander Technique Distance Teaching
Michael Frederick and Rober Rickover have a wide-ranging discussion about the use of platforms like Skype and Zoom to teach the Alexander Technique. Michael teaches in Los Angeles and is the Director of Alexander Technique Retreats International. Michael's web sites: MichaelDFrederick.com and AlexanderTechniqueWorkshops.com Robert teaches in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto, Canada. Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More general informaion about the Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexanderTechnique.com/support

Tasmanian Devel? The Amazing Life of F. Matthias Alexander
Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington Delaware, talks with Robert Rickover about how Alexander rose from obscurity in what was essentially a distant British penal colony, to become the founder of what is now known as the Alexander Technique. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert's website: alexandertechniquenebraska.com. More general informaion about the Technique: alexandertechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexanderTechnique.com/supportt

The Thorny Question of the Foot Plant
Malcolm Balk, an Alexander Technique teacher and runner in Montreal, Canada, talks with Robert Rickover about the importance of how our feet contact the ground in standing, walking and running. Malcolm's running/Alexander Technique website: TheArtOfRunning.com Robert teaches the Alexander Technique in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto, Canada. Robert's website: alexandertechniquenebraska.com. More general informaion about the Technique: alexandertechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexanderTechnique.com/support

Two views about Alexander Technique Distance Teaching
Alexander Technique teachers Bob Lada and Robert Rickover talk about their views on Alexander distance teaching. Bob lives in the Boston area. Bob's website: rllalex.com Robert teaches in Lincoln, NE and Toronto, Canada. Rober's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com This podcast was taken from the YouTube video: rb.gy/2trzpc More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexanderTechnique.com/support

Covid Economics for Alexander Technique Teachers
Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about the dramatic increase in Alexander Technique distance teaching, what it means for Alexander teachers, and for the future of the profession. Imogen's website: https://ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto Canada. Website: https://AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com Alexander Technique Distance Learning Group on Facebook: https://Facebook.com/groups/AlexTechD... Alexander Technique Forum on Facebook: https://Facebook.com/groups/Alexander... You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at https://alexandertechnque.com/support

The Poise Project - Bringing the principles of Alexander Technique to new populations
Robert Rickover talks with Monika Gross, an Alexander Technique teacher and Executive Director of the Poise Project, about the project and it's first Initiative: "Alexander Technique and Parkinson's. The Poise Project website: ThePoiseProject.org Monkia teaches in Asheville and Charlotte North Carolina. Monika's website: FormFitnessFunction.com Robert teaches in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto, Canada. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com Learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites atAlexanderTechnique.com/support

360 Degrees of Awareness with the Alexander Technique
Robert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Lincoln, Nebraska talks with Eileen Troberman about the usefulness of a wide field of awareness. Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska Eileen is an Alexander Technique teacher in the San Diego, California area. Eileen's website: AlexanderTechniqueSanDiego.com More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com

Teaching the Alexander Technique in a Corporate Environment
Sabine Grosser, an Alexander Technique teacher in Duesseldorf, Germany, talks with Robert Rickover about her experiences teaching the Technique in offices, and how she markets her work. Sabine's website: Ikos-Grosser.de Robert teaches in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto, Canada. Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More general informaion about the Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexanderTechnique.com/support

Refining your ability to use Alexander Technique Directions Effectively
Robert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Lincoln, Nebraska talks with Eileen Troberman about a challenge to effective self directing, and how to overcome it. Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com Eileen is an Alexander Technique teacher in the San Diego, California area. Eileen's website: AlexanderTechniqueSanDiego.com More information about the Alexander Technique:AlexanderTechnique.com

Evolution of a Technique: FM’s three-act Play
Robert Rickover talks with Neville Shortt, an Alexander Technique teacher in Glasgow, Scotland, about the first chaplter of F. M. Alexander's third book, The Use of the Self and about Neville's understanding of that chapter. Neville's website: FlowCoach.me Robert teaches in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto, Canada. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com Learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexanderTechnique.com/support

It Really IS the Use of the Whole Self!
Debi Adams, an Alexander Technique teacher in the Boston area talks with Robert Rickover about the power of her self-discovery and the nuances of an attitudinal response. Debi's websites: DebiAdamsAT.com and TheWellTemperedPianist.com Robert teaches in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto, Canada. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com Learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexanderTechnique.com/support

Combining Freedom Directions and Up With Gravity^SM
Robert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto Canada, talks with Imogen Ragone about the ways he uses Freedom Directions in combination with the Up With Gravity^SM process. Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com More information about Up With Gravity^SM: UpWithGravity.net More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com Listen

Using Negative (inhibitory) Directions
2 Conversations with Robert Rickover and Amy Ward Brimmer Listen - Part 1 - Listen - Part 2
Conversation with Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone Listen Listen to several other podcast on this topic here

Franciois Delsarte and F. Matthias Alexander - Multiple interviews exploring this connection

Teaching the Alexander Technique to Singers - Part 1
Alicia Briceland, a singer, voice teacher and Alexander Technique teacher in New York City and Northern New Jersey, talks with Robert Rickover about the knowledge that singers and Alexander Technique teachers bring to the teaching process. Alicia's website: TheBricelandStudio.com Robert teaches in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto, Canada. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com Learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexanderTechnique.com/supportt Listen

Teaching the Alexander Technique to Singers - Part 2
Alicia Briceland, a singer, voice teacher and Alexander Technique teacher in New York City and Northern New Jersey, talks with Robert Rickover about the importance of body awareness and what singers and Alexander Technique teachers bring to the teaching process. Alicia's website: TheBricelandStudio.com Robert teaches in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto, Canada. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com Learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexanderTechnique.com/supportt Listen

Teaching the Alexander Technique to Singers - Part 3
Alicia Briceland, a singer, voice teacher and Alexander Technique teacher in New York City and Northern New Jersey, talks with Robert Rickover about learning awareness and what singers and Alexander Technique teachers bring to the teaching process. Alicia's website: TheBricelandStudio.com Robert teaches in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto, Canada. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com Learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexanderTechnique.com/supportt Listen

Conversation with Robert Rickover and Michael Frederick, both long-time students of Marjorie Barstow. Listen (Several other audio conversations about Marjorie's teaching can be found at MarjorieBarstow.com)

Marjorie Barstow and Marjory Barlow - Conversation with Robert Rickover and Mike Cross about the parallels and differences between these two master teachers, including a discussion of their approaches to direction and inhibition. Listen

The teaching of Walter Carrington and Dilys Carrington - Conversation with Robert Rickover and Carolyn Nicholls. Listen

Walter Carrington's teaching and it's place in the developlment of the Alexander Technique after Alexander's death.
Conversation with Robert Rickover and John Nicholls. Listen

Effective marketing of you Alexander Technique practice
Jeremy Chance, an Alexander Technique teacher in Japan and Austraia, talks about his 12-point marketing process for Alexander teachers. Jeremy's Alexander marketing website: alexandertechniquecareersuccess.com Listen

Working with pregnant women - Alexander Technique teacher, childbirth educator, and doula, Ilana Machover, gives advice to AT teachers who have occasion to work with pregnant women. Listen

Working with Groups - Alexander Technique teacher Meade Andrews talks with Paul Cook of Direction Journal about teaching the Technique in a group setting.

Working with Children - Alexander Technique teacher Gal Ben-or talks about some of the considerations involved in working with children. Listen

Is the Alexander Technique Really Good for Everything? - Part 2
Jo Ann Widner, an Alexander Technique teacher and nurse living near Richmond Virginia, talks with Robert Rickover about this question, how it relates to the credibility of the Technique, and the implications for how best to describe the Technique. Jo Ann's website: jowidner.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/support Listen

The Origins of Body Mapping - Alexander Technique teacher William Conable about the origins and the usefulness of body mapping. (Imperfect audio quality, but well worth listening to in you're at all interested in Body Mapping) Listen

Teaching tips for Alexander Technique Teachers who have Students with Autism
Catlin Freeman, an Alexander Technique teacher in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, talks with Robert Rickover about ways in which Alexander Technique teachrs can best work with students on the autism spectrum, as well as some suggestions for people with autism who are taking Alexander lessons. Caitlin is the author of Autism and Alexander Technique: Using the Alexander Technique to Help People on the Autism Spectrum Catlin's website: alexandertechniqueguide.com Listen

Working with Students who are Healing from an Injury - Alexander Technique teacher Debi Adams talks about an aspect of healing from an injury that Alexander Technique teachers might overlook. Listen

Working with students who have Rheumatoid Arthritis - Alexander Technique teacher Jo Ann Widner, talks about how she works with students who have Rheumatoid arthritis. Listen

What is the "head" of "head forward and up"? - Alexander Technique teacher Galen Cranz talks with Robert Rickover about our heads and why there are considerably more complex than most of us tend to assume, and why it's important to understand these complexities. Listen

The Future of Alexander Technique Teaching - Alexander Technique teachers Michael Frederick and Robert Rickover talk about the state of Alexander teaching today, and what the prospects are for the future.

The Dart Procedures and the Alexander Technique
Robin Simmons, an Alexander Technique teacher in Zurich and Brig, Switzerland, talks about the origins of the Dart Porcedures and about their usefulness in improving physical functioning. More information about the Dart Procedures here Listen

Distance teaching using Skype - Interviews with Alexander Technique teachers who use Skype to teach and a list of teachers who use Skype

A New View of the Alexander Technique
The Alexander Technique is often seen as a way of letting go of harmful habits. In his Keynote Address at the 2014 annual meeting of the American Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique, John Nicholls proposes a view of the Technique as a forward-looking, life-long process of developing our potential. In his view, it is a practice of embodied mindfulness in which we choose to embody our deepest aspirations and attitudes in the fullest sense of those words. Error Correction: near the end of the talk a line of poetry quoted is wrongly attributed to Robert Graves' translation from an inscription at the Temple of Delphi. It is in fact a common translation of lines supposedly from legendary ancient Greek poet OrpheusJohn teaches, and trains Alexander Technique teachers, in New York City. John's website: johnnichollsat.com More information about the Alexander Technique: alexandertechnique.com Listen

The Alexander Technique and Chiropractic - Interview with Philip Schalow, an Alexander Technique teacher and chiropractor in Rockford, Illinois Philip's Alexander Technique website: rockfordalexandertechnique.com Listen

Interview with Robert Rickover - Robert is interviewed by Luke Ford in the lengthy conversation about his experiences with the Technique over the past 35-plus years. Listen

Educating with the hands: working on the body/self in Alexander Technique was published in Soclology of Health and Illness in February, 2011. Jen Tarr, the author, describes the study and it's implications in an interview with Robert Rickover. Listen You can read her study here (PDF download)

Describing the Alexander Technique - Alexander Technique teacher Franis Engel, provides suggestions for Alexander teachers and students who want to describe what they're teaching or studying to others. Listen

Information about using the Web to promote your practice:

Using the Web to Promote your Practice
Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher and website designer in Wilmington, Delaware talks with Robert Rickover about:
1. Important design considerations for an Alexander Technique website and about her web design services. Listen
2. Using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to enhance your site. Listen
3. The use of blogs, audio and video, email marketing and eBooks to enhance your site. Listen
4. Key ways to Increase the audience for your Alexander Technique Blog. Listen
5. Creating a smart phone version of your website using WordPress or DudaMobile.com. Listen
6. The role of Alexander Technique organizations in promoting the Technique on the web: Listen
7. The extreme inter-connectiveness of today's web and how it can help teachers who have a web presesence. Listen

Luke Ford, an Alexander Technique teacher in Los Angeles, interviews Paul Cook, publisher of Direction Journal, Robert Rickover, creator to this and other Alexander Technique web sites, and Amira Alverez. an Alexander teacher in the San Francisco area, Bill Plake, a teacher in the Los Angeles area, about their teaching careers - and, in particular their ideas about marketing the Alexander Technique to the general public. Listen to the Paul Cook Interview - Listen to the Robert Rickover Interview - Listen to the Amira Alverez Interview - Listen to the Bill Plake Interview

How can Alexander Technique Teachers Make Good Use of the Web?
Here you will find a series of discussions on how Alexander Technique teachers can use the web by Robert Rickover and Eileen Troberman.

Chyna Whyne Talks About Her Striking Website
Chyna Whyne, singer, song writer, fashion model and Alexander Technique teacher, talks about her very striking website, walkinginstilettos.com. Listen

How to Make Good Use of the Web's Interconnectedness
Lutz Golbs is on an Alexander Technique training course in Melbourne, Australia. He probably knows more about the inner workings of the web than anyone else in our profession. In this conversation, Lutz talks about how Alexander teachers can made good use of the web and, in particular, its interconnectiveness. Listen
See: Lutz's Wiki Lutz's Blog

Mark Josefsberg Talks About Using the Internet to Promote his Practice
Mark Josefsberg, an Alexander Technique teacher in New York City discusses using his experiences using the internet. Listen
See: Mark's website Mark's YouTube Video Mark's Twitter Page

EBooks and the Web for Alexander Technique Teachers
Roy Palmer, an Alexander Technique teacher in Bedford, England talks about his eBook projects. Listen
See: Roy's eBooks and Books

Twitterville
From TV Ontario, this a very good MP3 talk about Twitter with obvious Alexander Technique implications.

Other Resources (Non-Audio):

The Alexander Technique Twitter Project explains exactly how you can use Twitter to greatly enhance your practice, and everybody else's.

How to Create, Host and Promote an Alexander Technique Website - Easily and Quickly with no Technical Knowledge!