DIRECTION "Healing Arts" issue
Edited by Mika Hadar-Borthwick
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Alexander Technique and Healing.
A Taboo?
As the leaves fall off London trees and the autumn colours so vibrant, A.T. and healing seem even more interwoven.
Last summer at the Alexander Technique congress in Germany, I was met with a surprising amount of enthusiasm on the subject of 'A.T. and healing'.
Since then, some A.T. teachers responded saying that they would really like to publish on the subject but feel uneasy to commit publicly to it.
It brings me back to my training days where the word 'healing' was a taboo.
So the enthusiasm I saw in the last congress for the subject has been replaced with caution.
What a challenge, to unearth a taboo!
.And perhaps to find that the A.T. world is more open and inspired as a result.
What is so scary to A.T. teachers about the word or concept of healing?
What does distinguish us from 'healers' and what do we have in common with them?
Why would A.T. teachers feel uneasy to commit themselves publicly to the 'healing'
quality of their profession?
Does it make us stronger as a profession to be entrenched in a very rigid body of concepts without cross referring to other concepts and ideas?
So
All the best,
Mika
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Mika Hadar-Borthwick
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