Alexander Concept
To Become Aware
Alexander Technique History
Alexander-Technique is a truly amazing story of perception, intelligence and persistence shown by a man that overcame his own physical problems and limitations.
Frederick M. Alexander, an Australian actor, developed this concept in the last decade of the 19th Century and taught his discoveries, in England and in the United States, until his death at the age of 86 years in 1955.
His revolutionary approach, a forerunner and source of the current upheaval in psychology, education, and the arts, makes Alexander the true father in Western culture of the sensory-awareness and the nonverbal humanities.
Amongst his students were Bernhard Shaw, Aldous Huxley and John Dewey and amongst his many supporters the Nobel Prize winners in Physiology/Medicine; Sir Charles Sherrington and Professor Niko Tinbergen.
Today, more than half a century later, Alexander-Technique is well known in the Western World by musicians, artists, sportsmen and many others as a unique concept of body-mind re-education to achieve physical well-being and improved emotional health.
There are several thousand teachers of the Alexander-Technique worldwide. Most are members of one or more professional societies, most of which produce a written and an on-line directory of teachers. To view the international teachers’ list, please visit:
Frederick Matthias Alexander
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