The Resurrection of the Body: The Writings of F. Matthias Alexander [Alexander Technique]

F. Matthias Alexander, whose selected works are presented here, was pioneer in the concept of mind-body unity and in developing techniques of body reeducation to achieve physical well-being and improved emotional health. His revolutionary approach, forerunner and source of the current upheaval in psychology, education and the arts,m makes him the true father in Western culture of the sensory-awareness movement and the nonverbal humanities. Alexander was an Australian who developed his theories in the last decade of the 19th century and taught them, in England and the United States, until his death at the age of 86, in 1955. Among his students were Bernard Shaw, John Dewey and Aldus Huxley, and among his supporters the Nobel Prize winner in physiology, Sir Charles Sherrington. --- from books back cover