The Harpenden Clinic - a holistic approach to well-being
Sue Cheek Alexander Teacher
FM Alexander
- the young orator
WHERE DOES THE NAME ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE COME FROM?
- F.M.Alexander was born in 1869 in Tasmania and embarked on a career as an actor giving solo recitations of Shakespeare.
- Within a few years he developed voice problems leading to hoarseness and occasionally complete loss of voice, threatening his career.
- Finding doctors unable to offer long-term help, Alexander reasoned that his mis-use of himself whilst speaking was the cause of the problem, and set about finding a solution.
- After years of acute observation and patient experiment, he discovered principles that, in application, removed not only his voice problem but improved his entire neuromuscular system.
- Alexander’s friends and associates noted the remarkable change in him and asked if he would be wiling to teach them what he had learned. Thus began a career, which took him to the USA and England, where he eventually settled.
- In the UK there are over 900 teachers, who are registered members of STAT, plus over 2,000 overseas affiliated society teachers.
