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Volume 3, Issue 1 DIRECTION • 1) Editor & Publisher Paul Cook Assistant Editor CONTENTS Dani Sarason DIRECTION VOLUME 3 NUMBER 1 Issue Editor Ken Thompson Design and Art Griff - a Man and His Macs Original Art Direction Annette Hall Cover Story Photo Journalist Various Authors - see descriptions opposite 3 Tommy Thompson Book Reviews Editor Lawrence Bruce Editorial Cartoonist Paul Cook 4 Jerry Schwiebert Web Reviews The Science Report David Billingham 5 Regular Contributors Chris Stevens assesses different kinds ofscience WaIter Carrington Franis Engel The Formulation of an Alexander Lesson Louise Gauld 16 Kay S. Hooper The first ofthree, by Mervyn Waldman Eileen Troberman Christopher Waring Westby Alexander Teacher Education Part 11 Peter Schneider Grant Dillon Terry Fitzgerald on competency based teacher training 33 Proof Reading Lisa Hochgraf ViewPoint Copy Typing Thomas Myers develops a bridging language for Somatic fields 37 Susan Rutter Marketing and Webmaster Back Issues and Subscription Form 38 Paul Cook & Nick Chance Printer In All Directions Dobson's Printing Service News & views from around the world Centre European Subscriptions Kevin Wooding American Subscriptions Raewyn Haywood ACKNOWLEDGMENTS SUBSCRIPTIONS Without expert guidance and opinion from Jeremy Web Site: www.directionjournal.com Chance, this project would not have happened. Many thanks to: Ken Thompson for putting in the USA/Canada-$US39 groundwork on inspiring key writers for this issue; 40 Kidder Ave #3 Dani sarason, our new lAD editor, who has been a Somerville MA 01224 godsend; Tommy Thompson for finding Thomas Freecall: 800 344.4224 Myers; Michael, Sigrid and Lyn for their wonderful Email: [email protected] late interview; shmuel Nelken for the Jerusalem photos and all writers for their patience and United Kingdom/E urope-£22.00 YOGA cooperation. A special thanks to Jean Clark and THE LOTUS 23 Guy Court, King Street Elisabeth Molle for attempting to source a cover AND THE ROSE Jericho, Oxford, OX2 6DB image. My apologies to Cathy Pollock for her article Tel: +44 -(0)186 551.4224 on Aikido not fitting into this issue. Thanks also to Fax: +44 -(0)709 233.4205 Diana Devitt-Dawson, Pcdro d'Alcantara, Jean Email: [email protected] Fischer, Vivien Mackie and John Nicholls for advice and input to the DIRECTION cause. Thankyou also Australia-$A39 (including GST) to Jocelyn Bennet and Paul Macgregor for technical PO Box 700, Highett VIC 3190 advice and layout for the new back Tel/Fax: +61-(0)39502.3859 issues/subscription page. Email: [email protected] ISSN 1039-314S. DIRECTION is published by Direction Journal, a privately owned company. The EDITORIAL SUBMISSIONS views expressed in this Journal are not necessarily those of the publisher. Copyright 2002 by Direction DIRECTION considers all submissions. Cover Photo Please contact the Editor for author Journal, ABN 14 832 566 105. All rights reserved. Please contact the publisher if we have failed to Remy (12 months), our cover model for this issue guidelines prior to submitting material acknowledge or reimburse the holder of copyright was proudly choreographed by his mother, Anna at address above or Email: on any photo used. Australian grammar is used and Isgro,. an AT teacher in Melbourne. Photography [email protected] we refer to The Macquarie Essential Dictionary. Charhe Sunano, set deSIgn and props Paul Cook. 2 DIRECTION DIRECTION YOGA ISSUE 4 7 Issue Editorial What is Yoga? by Ken Thompson by Ken Thompson A happiness From its origins in that does not come the 4th century RC., to an end. many Yoga lineages have developed, some more recently than others. 12 19 OffThe Table: Interview: An Alexander Teacher Michael D Frederick & on the Mat Sigrid Wagner by Karyn Chapman with Lyn Charlsen Twenty-years Does Yoga have more of teaching AT and to offer than AT? At what Yoga fuels this lively point is AT superseded perspective on the need by Yoga practice? for both in one's life. 27 29 Yoking the East and West OfOne Mind: by Diana Hook Alexander and Ashtanga How can Yoga be made by Suzanne Faulkner relevant to daily life? Is it The philosophies run possible to bridge the gap parallel, does the practice between Eastern and lead to a similar end? Western lifestyles? VOLUME 3 NUMBER 1 3 EDITORIAL by Paul Cook M any views exist in the Alexander world due to ignorance and most likely undervaluing the about Yoga. I have actively solicited as many as I ancient multi layered system of Yoga to the extreme. The possibly could in the research and compilation of this fact that western thinking has turned Yoga into issue. Ranging from an absolute disregard to positively something that resembles a standardised fitness class consuming, my favourite perspective to date is a non­ does not necessarily mean that Alexander teachers who committal due to a self-admittance of naivety, though practice Yoga are of the same mindset. accompanied by an endgaining barb. Negative opinions For those already sold on the benefits of Yoga in of Yoga, whilst communicated via several mediums, their lives but are not aware of the Alexander Technique, were not authorised for publishing therefore this issue this issue holds the promise of a whole new perspective may seem to be pushing one side of the story. This was on Yoga practice. For Alexander teachers who are open beyond my control, although I look forward to reader minded enough to have wondered about this fuss called responses in due course. Yoga, it is hoped that perusing these pages will shed A quote sent to this office that possibly represents some much-needed light on the topic. a large proportion of the Alexander community comes Knowing where to start when a new student from Or Wilfred Barlow: "Since the essence of walks into your practice is probably something that Alexander's work was what he called "directing", to be gradually clarifies, or even becomes intuitive over time. given "movements to practise" is about as far away from Having some kind of plan beforehand is how some his work as it is possible to imagine." teachers prepare for the experience. One such approach To deny the impact of Yoga on millions of hearts has begun a life in this issue and will traverse the next and minds in western culture over the past 15 years two. Take it or leave it, for new teachers removed from would be to deny the existence of aerobics and the the support of their training course, it can be a daunting "pump class". However, comparing the two is probably prospect starting from scratch. • ISSUE EDITORIAL by Ken Thompson Looking at the possible connections between contemplate the possibility of eliminating "ego" or "self". Yoga and the Alexander Technique in this edition of This theme is also found in "Zen" and other Eastern DIRECTION, I have endeavoured to collect the thought, and in someone who bridged east and west-J. experiences of teachers from both disciplines. Krishnamurti. You can read his style of questioning in, The common problem arises of many different The Awakening ofIntelligence, one of his many books. This styles and traditions. Yoga, over thousands of years, has inner search is nicely summed up in Paul Brunton's produced a large number of gurus/teachers, and the book A Search in Secret India by Indian Saga Maharishee followers of these gurus have tended to set up ashrams, Ramana, who said: communities and centres. Each group then developed "Man's real nature is happiness. Happiness is their own understanding of the classical texts and inborn in the true self. His search for happiness is an passed it on accordingly. Alexander Technique has been unconscious search for his true self. The true self is established for just over 100 years, but it has also imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a developed into different styles and traditions. happiness which does not come to an end." I don't see this as presenting a major problem to would-be enquirers, because they will always have the In Alexander Technique, the ability to make space books for reference: FM's four books containing the between stimulus and response and to inhibit golden threads of the Technique, and the classical Yoga unconscious, habitual response, gives individuals the books doing the same. Of course practical experience opportunity to consider what response, if any, they are from a guru/ teacher is of great value in both disciplines, to make. When the individual can be happy to stay in and I'm not suggesting that without the practical that silence between thoughts, allowing the integrity of experience learning would be easy, but to the sincere the self to be restored by conscious "directions", could seeker after truth, it will always be a possibility. this be the same balanced state of mind that is gained Stillness and quiet mind is the key to discovering from the "Samadhi" of Yoga practice and does this the goal of both diSciplines. In Yoga the eternal question, correspond to FM's understanding of man's supreme "Who am I?" is posed, giving the student time to inheritance-conscious guidance and control? • 4 DIRECTION THE SCIENCE REPORT by Chris Stevens Summarising current and recent research into the Alexander Technique, Chris looks at the trials and errors. Are certain methods ofanalysis more appropriate than others? Research in science is of different kinds. Annual Conference. More can be found on the MRC Conventionally, in physical science some "thing" or website by looking under current trials and then action is studied under certain conditions, rather than controlled trials or direct to: www.controlled-trials.com. analysed theoretically. Measurements are made and The "gold standard" of clinical trials is the results found.
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