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Professor Nikolaas Tinbergen Noble Prize-winner for Physiology Medicine 1973. "The Alexander Technique is based on sophisticated touch and observation. I noticed with growing amazement very striking improvements in such diverse things as blood pressure, breathing, depth of sleep, overall cheerfulness, mental alertness, resilience against outside pressures and also in such refined skills as playing an instrument." Sir Charles Sherrington Noble Prize winner and Pioneer of Neurophysiology. "Mr F.Alexander has done a service to the subject insistently treating each act as involving the whole integrated individual, the whole psychophysical man." George Bernard Shaw Playwright. "Alexander establishes not only the beginning of a far reaching science of the involuntary movement we call reflexes, but a technique of connection and self control which forms a substantial addition to our very slender resources of personal education." Dr Oliver Neville (Principle RADA). "The Alexander Technique is central to the training of actors at The Royal Academy of dramatic arts." John Clesse Actor and comedian. "I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. The effects are being relaxed alert and light." Dr Bent Osterguaard Consultant Cardiologist aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. "The Alexander Technique is a realistic alternative to beta blockers in the control of stress-induced high blood pressure." |