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<p>I first heard about the Alexander Technique a quarter century ago. I was working as a research economist in the same office in Toronto as a computer programmer who was taking Alexander lessons. Along with everybody else in the office, I noticed some pretty impressive improvements in her posture over quite a short period of time. She told us that the back pain and neck discomfort she'd had for years was almost all gone.</p> <p>But when she tried to explain the Technique, she was met by blank stares. I was very curious to learn more about this "mysterious" process and so I started taking lessons myself. After a few months of some of the most amazing and unexpected changes in my own posture, and a greater sense of physical ease in my body than I ever thought possible, I decided I would go through the three-year training necessary to become a teacher myself.</p> <p>After a couple of years, I was able to enroll at The School of Alexander Studies in London, England where I also served on the faculty for a short time after graduating. For many years I taught the Technique in Toronto and eventually moved to Lincoln, Nebraska in order to study with the late Marjorie Barstow, a master teacher of the Alexander Technique, and to assist her in teaching her workshops. I continue to live and teach in Lincoln, and make regular teaching trips back to Toronto.</p> <p>I have always been very interested in conveying the ideas behind the Alexander Technique in ways that make sense to people who have not had firsthand experience with it. I am the author of Fitness Without Stress - A Guide to the Alexander Technique, and have been a frequent contributor to Alexander Technique publications. More recently, I created The Complete Guide to the Alexander Technique web site at http://www.alexandertechnique.com in order to bring together in one place information and links to all Alexander Technique resources on and off the net.</p> <p>I am a teaching member of the three major Alexander Technique professional societies: The Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique, Alexander Technique International and the American Society for the Alexander Technique.</p>