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This portal of www.franis.org features Alexander Technique Simplified.
What is in all the links are explained below.

New Classes! offered in Waimea-Kamuela on the Big Island of Hawaii. Starts Feb. 25th, twice weekly (Monday and Thursday, 6pm-7:30pm) for three weeks through Mar. 13th, 2008. Sign up for this discounted class series sponsored by Waimea Community Education at www.waimeaeducation.com or by calling (808) 885-1539. It's a great value, only $10. per class!

Benefits

Alexander Technique list of benefits How capable is anyone of self-improvement? Read what the Technique has given people, all here in an unbelievable list of benefits. These are testimonials of opening possibilities.

Define

Alexander Technique - what it is, how it works, and what it can do for you. Alexander Technique is rumored to be impossible to put into words. Read a list of how other people have defined it here.
If you've had Alexander lessons and want to be able to say something intelligent when asked what it is, from this page you can try these fill-in-the-blank sentences, here.
For those who might be feeling academic, here is a longwinded, but very complete encyclopedia style definition.
Planned and coming soon is a page of the current edits of Alexander Technique definition I wrote for wikipedia.org that stayed up for three years.

Ideas

mastery "The Technique" is unusual for an amazing number of original concepts and fascinating ideas, such as how to be self-aware without being self-conscious. Learn three of the most important Alexander principles and how they work together here.

Pitfalls

Alexander Technique Simplified Why so people stop doing the Alexander Technique? Cautions, disadvantages, pitfalls, discouragements, and strange things that happen to Alexander students. Read about these secrets so that you can avoid these common discouragements, here.

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unlimited learning If you're signing up for classes in Alexander Technique or about to, about what happens at classes and other tips, check out this page about the newest Alexander Technique class workshops.


If you're curious exactly how abstracted principles would be applied in learning a skill, check out this short page on learning to juggle three items, here.
For those people who really are convinced they could never juggle, the longer, more in-depth and thorough version is here.
Planned later for this section are online lessons designed to teach you about Alexander Technique without a hands-on teacher. Right now, you can read accounts of people describing what happens to them as Alexander Technique works, on this page.

Here's How to Learn More

Do some experimenting soon! To go on to the page where you can arrange to learn Alexander Technique in an in-person private lesson from Franis Engel, who teaches in Sausalito and Bolinas in Marin County, CA. Contact here. (Contact info is also at the foot of this page.)

Why

Alexander Technique Simplified If you are familiar with the Alexander Technique, report your experiences here, - anonymously or signed, as you like. Tell web surfers your story of how and why you continue to learn Alexander Technique, what it has done for you, and have links to your webpage or a webpage of your choice.

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What is Alexander Technique?
Free yourself from previous conditioning and the limitations of habit
by studying the mannerisms of your kinesthetic sense.

Short definitions
Ideas


What is Alexander Technique used for?
Alexander Technique is useful for those who want to continuously improve a specific skill, art or sport. It is also useful to help recover former capacity to move freely and balance easily. Beyond the time it takes for lessons to learn it, no exercises or daily hour is required for practicing, only extra thought & experimentation.

A surprising list of benefits