Embodying Practice

Deepening Your Alexander Technique Practice

This thoughtful and practical guide offers an illuminating exploration of learning and teaching the Alexander Technique, intended for teachers and dedicated students who wish to keep evolving their understanding. Drawing on decades of personal experience and the wisdom of respected teachers, author Michael Stenning presents a rich tapestry of reflections, clarifications, and detailed explorations.

Rather than offering a step-by-step manual for beginners, this book invites you to consider familiar concepts in new ways. Each chapter encourages you to question your assumptions, revisit fundamental principles, and re-examine the foundation of your practice. Whether you are a trainee teacher, newly qualified, returning after a break, or highly experienced, you will find ideas to inspire, challenge, and reawaken your curiosity.

The author emphasises that learning the Alexander Technique is a lifelong, open-ended process. Like ascending a spiral staircase, you revisit the same questions and skills repeatedly, each time gaining greater clarity and insight. This continuous engagement prevents stagnation and keeps your teaching alive and responsive.

You will discover explorations of traditional approaches alongside fresh perspectives that can help you rekindle your enthusiasm and reconnect with the sense of agency at the heart of the Technique. The Alexander Technique empowers us to choose how we respond to life, fostering greater ease, calm, and integration in both body and mind.

Whether you dip into chapters as needed or read cover to cover, this book will support you in developing your self-awareness, refining your teaching, and expanding your sense of what is possible.

At its core, this work is an invitation: to keep asking yourself essential questions about your use, your perceptions, and your growth. What don't you know yet? How can you continue to deepen your understanding? This book will help you stay engaged in the process, committed to learning and living the Alexander Technique more fully-today and throughout your teaching life.