| Quotations on the Alexander Technique | |
| “From early childhood onward we make many decisions about how to be and how to live. These decisions shape the habits of our bodies as well as our minds. The Alexander Technique's in-depth approach helps us move out of unwanted habits and back into choice.”Mary Cox, Teaching and supervising psychotherapist | |
| “I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get you to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.”John Cleese | |
| “The Alexander Technique can be sustaining; it is something that if learned well, can be carried along with you for the rest of your life. It gives you confidence to be who you are when you are up in front of an audience.”Patrick Maddams, Managing Director, Royal Academy of Music | |
| “The Alexander Technique makes a real difference to my often tense and busy life. Its thoughtful approach has made me calmer, improved my concentration and given me a clearer sense of my own well-being. I am grateful for it.”Joan Bakewell | |
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“Through the Alexander Technique I was able to rehabilitate my running after 25 years of being unable to run through injuries, to the extent that I was able to set ten world records for veterans in 1982.”Paul Collins, Canadian national marathon champion in 1949-1952 |
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| “My times became faster as I looked at the readouts on my displays while training using the Alexander Technique. It was a real boost to my mental training to have the Alexander Technique in my back pocket when I placed ninth in the 1999 Canadian women's Open Lightweight Erging Championships and when I rowed in the Masters Nationals (5 gold) and World Lightweight Championships (2 gold) and the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta (1 gold). I was thrilled with my placings in these events and I can definitely say without hesitation that I wouldn't have had the rowing success that I have had the luxury of experiencing in my short time on the water without finding the Alexander Technique and the great teachers that I have had the privilege to work with.”Valerie Thompson Williams, Rowing masters gold medalist | |
| “I recommend the Alexander Technique as an extremely sophisticated form of rehabilitation... From personal experience we can already confirm some of the seemingly fantastic claims made by Alexander and his followers..Professor N. Tinbergen in his Nobel Prize Speech for Medicine, 1973 | |
| “It [the FM Alexander Technique] bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.”John Dewey (1859-1952), American philosopher of education | |