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Stony Brook Congress 1986 – Workshop Deborah Caplan

In this workshop Deborah Caplan uses a skeletal model to discuss the anatomical nature of movement and structure of the spine. For over 50 years, Deborah Caplan successfully applied the Alexander Technique to back care. A physical therapist, she was a founding member of the American Center for the Alexander Technique and senior faculty member of the teacher training program.
I observed Deborah giving my cousin a lesson but I was unable to discern what she was DOING! She was getting miraculous results. I asked her what she was doing and she explained by putting her hands on me. I remember the moment – I was standing there reorganizing under her hands. It was a “new” and amazing kinaesthetic experience. (Judith Stern MA, PT).

Stony Brook Congress 1986 – Interview with Marjorie Barstow

In this programme and interview Marjorie Barstow explains that she continues her work with pupils and wants to be sure and know that they are continually “constructive thinking” which is required if we wish to improve our general manner of co-ordination and “the Use of the Self”. Marjorie Barstow was the first person to graduate from F. Matthias Alexander’s first Alexander Technique teacher training course in in London in 1934.As a world-renowned master teacher, Marjorie Barstow made many contributions to The Alexander Technique. In over 60 years of teaching, she guided students as they discovered the practical application of Alexander’s discoveries in everyday activities.

Stony Brook Congress 1986 – Interview with Marjory Barlow

Conversation with Marjory Barlow, the niece of F. M. Alexander she was one of the first to be trained to become a teacher. She talks about the principles and history of the Alexander Technique. Marjory Barlow was F. M. Alexander’s niece, she took lessons from him and trained with him to become a certified teacher in 1933. Married to Dr. Wilfred Barlow, a medical doctor who was also trained by FM, they ran one of the earliest training courses in London. Marjory was keen to ensure that F.M.’s message was not diluted, to continue to preserve the fundamentals of FM’s remarkable work. Marjory was always keen to point out that the real teaching of this technique is only imparted on a one to one basis.

Stony Brook Congress 1986 – Interview with Walter Carrington

In this interview Walter Carrington recalls how his training was the continuation of Alexanders training course when he died in 1955. With Dilys Carrington his wife, they worked as a team and at this point in 1986, the course had been training teachers for over 30 years. When asked about his interest in horses he recalls how Raymond Dart had told him that you couldn’t really understand human beings unless you considered other animals as well. Walter Carrington was a leading figure in the teaching and development in Britain of the Alexander technique, the system evolved by the Australian actor Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955) to promote wellbeing through awareness of balance, posture, and physical co-ordination. For more than 60 years Carrington made an immense contribution to the preservation and development of the teaching of the technique. With his wife Dilys they ran the Constructive Teaching Centre in Lansdowne Road London where they trained many of today’s leading teachers.

Stony Brook Congress 1986 – Interview with Dr Wilfred Barlow

Freiburg Congress 1999 – Michael Frederick

Michael Frederick Presents Walter Carrington’s Talk : Alexander and Emotion

In this film Michael D. Frederick reads a talk written by Walter Carrington, this was presented to a large audience at the 6th International Congress for The Alexander Technique in Freiberg in 1999.

Walter Carrington was a leading figure in the teaching and development in Britain of the Alexander technique, the system evolved by the Australian actor Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869-1955) to promote wellbeing through awareness of balance, posture, and physical co-ordination. For more than 60 years Carrington made an immense contribution to the preservation and development of the teaching of the technique. With his wife Dilys they ran the Constructive Teaching Centre in Lansdowne Road London where they trained many of today’s leading teachers

Michael D. Frederick is the Founding Director of the International Congresses on the Alexander Technique, he is currently Chairman of the Alexander International Congress Board of Directors. Michael has organized and taught over 150 workshops in the U.S. and Europe since 1978. Michael worked for two years at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, and taught for over a decade in The Old Globe Theatre’s MFA Acting Program at the University of San Diego. From 1994 to 2000, Michael organised Alexander Technique Master Classes with Elisabeth Walker and Marjory Barlow (F.M. Alexander’s niece) in San Francisco, Basel, and Paris.

Freiburg Congress 1999 – Masterclass Vivien Mackie

Freiburg Congress 1999 – Rivka Cohen

Limerick Congress 2015 – Wednesday

Limerick Congress Wednesday 12th August

00:00 Missy Vineyard Directing And Touch
05:21 Jessica Wolf The Art Of Breathing
13:30 Jack Stern Spine
25:18 Panel Discussion

Freiburg Congress 1999 – Marjory Barlow

In this film Marjory discusses her life with the technique and give some practical demonstrations working with a selection of Alexander Teachers. This talk and demonstration was given in from of a large international audience of Alexander Teachers in Freiburg, Germany.

Marjory Barlow was F. M. Alexander’s niece and took lessons from him and trained with him to become a certified teacher in 1933. Married to Dr. Wilfred Barlow, a medical doctor who was also trained by F.M., they ran one of the earliest training courses in London.

Marjory was keen to ensure that F.M.’s message was not diluted, to continue to preserve the fundamentals of F.M.’s remarkable discoveries. Marjory was always keen to point out that the real teaching of this technique can only imparted on a one to one basis.