DIRECTION FreeMail
June, 1999
Volume 2, Number 1
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In This Issue
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1. TEACHERS MAIL LIST - read about a new mail list exclusively for teachers of the Alexander Technique.
2. CONGRESS 6/99 - Get your name in print & earn yourself a subscription by being part of our coverage of the Congress.
3. VISION ISSUE - Peter Grunwald writes about the new Vision issue that will be out soon.
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I am starting a new discussion list and will kick off with some provocative ideas bound to stimulate healthy debate. When was anything to do with DIRECTION ever boring?
Unlike AlexTech, this list will be a focused discussion on one subject at a time.
Our first topic? Teacher Training Methods. As I am running my own school in Tokyo, I am personally taking on an Editorial role in this Mailing List. My primary aim in doing this is to learn and be stimulated with ideas for my new school...
As it progresses, an archive of discussions will be posted up at our web site so latecomers can catch up and people can cross-reference their discussion to previous opinions.
To join send an email to mailto:majordomo@directionjournal.com
and place in the body of the text this message:
subscribe tts-list
That simple!
As soon as a good number have joined up - I'll start. I will remind you again just before we kick off.
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Are you going to the Congress? Would you like to earn a subscription by covering one of the Events for us?
We are looking for writers to cover the main events and workshops of the Congress. If you are interested, email <jeremy@directionjournal.com> and suggest which event you would like to cover.
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DIRECTION Vol 2 Number 7 "Eye See - Vision Issue"
Scientists predict that half of the world population will soon be myopic (TIME, May 31st 1999) Those statistics can be changed. How?
Some answers are in this issue of DIRECTION which emphasises the importance of including eyesight and vision use in the overall Use of the Self. Some of the other issues also tackle in this issue:
- Shedding some light on the ever-debated question of whether the Bates method has some similarities to Alexander work
- How can FM's principles can be applied to the Bates method?
- Was Aldous Huxley was a forerunner of applying the AT principles to eyesight improvement, without having been acknowledged by our own Alexander teaching profession?
- Dr. Brian Freeman, a Sydney anatomist, writes on the Embryology of the Visual System, clarifying the remarkable complexity of this wondrous instrument.
- Louise Gauld on Alexandrian and Bates scholar Aldous Huxley, and his book "The Art of Seeing" first published in 1942
- Brigitte Cavadias (Bates and Alexander teacher) on the work of Dr. William Bates in vision improvement and in the light within the Alexander context .
- Walter Carrington interviewed by Marjory Fern (U.K.) and Brigitte Cavadias (France) with Walter Carrington on "The Use of the Eye".
- Issue Editor Peter Grunwald writes about his evolving work on the Eye-Body Reflex Pattern, and how the organisation and use of the visual system reflect the function of the human body.
In the next week, members of FreeMail will receive a preview of an article from this issue. To discover if your subscription is up to date contact us at:
mailto:office@directionjournal.com
That's all for now.
Jeremy Chance
Editor, DIRECTION
June, 1999