The Alexander Technique stresses unification in an era of greater and greater medical specialization. Its educational system teaches people how to best use their bodies in ordinary action to avoid or reduce unnecessary stress and pain. It enables clients to get better faster and stay better longer. This is undoubtedly the best way to take care of the back and alleviate back pain.” — Jack Stern, MD, PhD, Neurosurgeon

To pursue knowledge, gather every day. To pursue the Dao, lose everyday.” — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Although a specific problem usually leads a person to try a course of lessons in the Alexander Technique, many people find the experience positive in diverse and unanticipated ways – such as decrease in back pain and improvements in athletic performance, respiratory function, and stage presence, as well as enhanced emotional well-being.” — John H. M. Austin, M.D. Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York

The very essence of change demands coming into contact with the unknown.” — F.M. Alexander

The Alexander Technique is not a method of accumulating information nor the art of learning something new. It is, instead, the art of unlearning, which is much more subtle and, sometimes, a more difficult endeavor – unlearning that which is habitual instead of natural — letting go of old patterns and of those repetitious opinions arrived at in times and circumstances totally different from those of the present.” — Laura Huxley

We can throw away the habit of a lifetime in a few minutes if we use our brains.” — F.M. Alexander

Body awareness keeps you present, it anchors you in the now.” — Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.” — Gloria Steinem

The Alexander Technique remains the best of the self-care strategies to prevent the sequel of poor posture and poor breathing.” — Harold Wise, MD, PC

The real solution lies in the wide acceptance of the principle of prevention instead of ‘cure’, and the realization at long last, that the most valuable knowledge we can possess is that of the use and functioning of the self, and of the means whereby the human individual may progressively raise the standard of his health and general well-being.” — F.M. Alexander

Not choice, but habit rules the unreflecting herd,” — William Wordsworth

You can’t do something you don’t know, if you keep on doing what you do know.” — F.M. Alexander

You must unlearn what you have learned.” — Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back