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DIRECTION Freemail
February, 2000
Volume 3, Number 1
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In This Issue
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1. DIRECTION SITE WORKING - The day I left for my Australian summer holiday, the site goes down. Great!
2. NEW JAPANESE WEB SITE - We are excited to announce an important new web site catering for Japanese speakers.
3. HEALING ISSUE - Issue Editor Mika Hadar-Borthwick introduces her DIRECTION project and ponders the issues.
4. FREEMAIL ARCHIVES - Missed past issues of Freemail? Go to - http://www.directionjournal.com/fmarchive
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1. DIRECTION SITE WORKING AGAIN
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First let me apologise to all of you who tried to email or access our site over the Christmas/New Year period. We have been living through a nightmare of web trouble, partly brought on by our own ignorance, partly exacerbated by bad service. Suffice to say it is finally sorted and everything is working again - AND will stay that way.
Please click here if you don't believe me!
http://www.directionjournal.com
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Can you read Japanese?
Then I am pleased to announce an important new Alexander site in Japan - set your browser to read Japanese (although you still need the fonts installed too) and take a look -
We are already experiencing a lot of new traffic within Japan and have recently secured the rights to alexandertechnique.co.jp - where we soon be moving the site. However you will always be able to access it from www.alextech.net.
If you want a hard copy version of some of the new information, a 24 page booklet in Japanese is available. Please mailto:office@alextech.net for a free copy to be snailed mailed out to you.
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Continuing our introductions to future issues of DIRECTION, Mika Hadar-Borthwick discusses the concepts and preconceptions associated with Healing and Alexander's discoveries...
You can keep a copy handy by bookmarking this page -
http://www.directionjournal.com/coming/healing.htm
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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
Tel/Fax UK: +44-(0)181-455 5418
To contact mailto:mika@directionjournal.com
To read about other future DIRECTION issues, go to -
http://www.directionjournal.com/coming/yoga.htm
http://www.directionjournal.com/coming/perform.htm
http://www.directionjournal.com/coming/running.htm
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Jeremy Chance
Editor, DIRECTION
February, 2000
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