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Embodying Practice

A Guide for New Teachers of the Alexander Technique

Michael Stenning

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Freedom in Action
25 July 2025
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.
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Imprint:   Freedom in Action
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 11mm
Weight:   322g
ISBN:   9781764178501
ISBN 10:   1764178505
Pages:   166
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Embodying Practice: A Guide for New Teachers of the Alexander Technique

'There is a simplicity in Michael's teaching. His work is clear, precise and consistent, the hallmark of a master-teacher. Merran Poplar, Alexander Teacher and Teacher Trainer 'This is the book we need to have! I recommend this book for anyone wanting to deepen their understanding and practice of the Alexander Technique. This valuable resource for Alexander teachers arises from Michael Stenning's extensive experience as a teacher trainer and skilled teacher practitioner of the Technique. Michael's thoughtful presentation of the Alexander Technique's principles, advantages, challenges and procedures offers a detailed guide to refine your personal practice and your teaching.' Dr Ann Shoebridge Alexander Technique Teacher, DPT Musicians' health and performance specialist The University of Melbourne 'Michael has distilled with great clarity what is required, not just to teach with more confidence, but to continue to improve as we expand our awareness with practiced discipline. This volume supports the transition from trainee to teacher, and the building of greater confidence than many have when they first qualify. It is also a reminder to all of us to stay alive to the endless growth inherent in an ongoing exploration of Alexander's legacy.' Dr. Michael Gleeson. Alexander Technique Teacher and Public Health researcher 'Michael Stenning invites the reader, whether pupil, trainee, teacher - and especially new teacher - to continue to work, to develop a lifelong practice of attending to the use of the self. You will receive reminders to inhibit and direct, page after page, and learn to trust that deepening your Alexander skills is the key to improving your use and effectiveness as a teacher.'Ruth Rootberg, Alexander Technique Teacher, Trainer, and author.


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