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Volume
1 Number 7 |
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Regular
Features
Editorials,
The Garlick Report, In All Directions (16 pages)
Book Reviews, Mis Direction, CounterPoint (letters), Viewpoint, Friends of
Alexander.
Articles
in this Issue
What
is the Feldenkrais Method? - David
Hall
Musings on the Methods - Michael Johnson-Chase
Awareness Through Movement - A Feldenkrais form of exercise
The Pursuit of Poise - David Hall
FM Alexander and Evolution - Jean Fischer
The Dream of Matthias The Borgomaster - Fred M. Alexander
Anatomy of Posture in Higher Primates - Professor Phillip Tobias
The Illusions of Perception - Dr Garlick
Sir George & Lady Houston - Margaret Long
ViewPoint - Aileen Crow
Courtesy Telecom - Kri Ackers
Engelberg in August - J de P
Return to Russia - Lisa First
Structure of Communication - Jeremy Chance
Letters of Woe - Mis Direction
Book Reviews - Mr Rogers
Bare Feet, Crossed Legs & Other Nonsence - N. Brockbank
Stage Direction - Dominic Barter
Related
Material
DIRECTION
Vol 1 Number 3 - [The Dart Procedures]
DIRECTION Vol 1 Number 8 - [Music And Musicians]
DIRECTION Vol 1 Number 9 - [Emotions]
DIRECTION Vol 1 Number 10 - [Dance Issue]
DIRECTION Vol 2 Number 3 - [Voice Issue]
DIRECTION Vol 2 Number 4 - [Sexuality]
Abstracts
of Articles In This Issue
Issue Editor David Hall
| "What is the Feldenkrais Method?" | David
Hall interviews a leading Feldenkrais practitioner Mark Reese asks obvious questions and explores it's relationship to Alexander's work. |
| "Musings on the Methods" | Michael
Johnson-Chase postualtes on the two methods: do they show two types of scientific thinkingdivergent & convergent creativity. |
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"Awareness Through Movement" |
ATM is the Feldenkrais version of exercisebut nothing you ever imagined: you lie on the floor, roll around, listen to your body and experiment with movement... |
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"The Pursuit of Poise" |
David Hall, a practitioner of both methods, offers thought provoking ideas on professional chauvinism, compulsive behaviour and pain while exploring each technique |
| "FM Alexander and Evolution" |
Jean
Fischer writes that bemusement may give way to disgust |
| "The Dream of Matthias The Borgomaster" | In
a special DIRECTION scoop Clare Hughes unearthed this poem by a "Fred M. Alexander" - none other than FM from his early days in Australia. |
| "Man the Tottering Biped: Anatomy of Posture in Higher Primates" | The
sweeping evolutionary adaptations for bipedalism are reviewed the second of Professor Phillip Tobias's five part series. |
| "The Illusions of Perception" | Why does the moon sometimes seem so big when in fact it is always the same size? Dr Garlick discusses this and other illusions created by our senses in concert with our mind. |
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"Friends of Alexander: Sir George & Lady Houston" |
Margaret Long writes that Sir George was Australia's 4th Prime Minister and a father Australian Federation who was one of Alexander's earliest pupils with, yes, voice problems. |
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"ViewPoint" by Aileen Crow |
A hard hitting cirtique of Alexander: "We need to be careful that the Alexander Technique doesn't become another system selling solutions to the problems it creates." |
Related
Material
DIRECTION
Vol 1 Number 3 - [The Dart Procedures]
DIRECTION Vol 1 Number 8 - [Music And Musicians]
DIRECTION Vol 1 Number 9 - [Emotions]
DIRECTION Vol 1 Number 10 - [Dance Issue]
DIRECTION Vol 2 Number 3 - [Voice Issue]
DIRECTION Vol 2 Number 4 - [Sexuality]