🦉 Alexander Technique and the Wisdom of Experience

🦉 Telling is not teaching. I heard this phrase from a teacher once and it really resonated with me. As a learner, I want to be engaged in a process of discovery and exploration. Don’t just tell me the how and the why - show me. Lead me. Guide me. Immerse me in the how and why. Ignite my curiosity. From this place of curiosity, awareness, and engagement, I am positively primed for skill acquisition and new knowledge.

🦉 F. M. Alexander developed his approach through many hours of trial and error and observation. He had some hypotheses around what was happening with his voice loss and breathing difficulties, but it was only through experimentation that he could deduce what he was up to while reciting, and how to start to change his patterns. He developed his THEORY through EXPERIENCE - not the other way around.

🦉 There is great wisdom in experiential learning. You bring the wisdom of your experience into every lesson and performance. Every student that walks to into your studio brings the wisdom of their experience to their time with you. There is the possibility for a beautiful alchemy of co-creation in every lesson, if we as teachers can be open to the lived experience in our students and in ourselves.

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