How can Alexander Technique Teachers make good use of the Web?

In these conversations, Robert and Eileen discuss ways in which Alexander teachers can use the Internet to promote their practice, get new students, and to make the Alexander Technique more widely known. Two entire conversations are devoted to Twitter. We urge you to read The Alexander Technique Twitter Project The best source of written information about creating a website can be found at How to Create Promote and Host an Alexander Technique Web Site - Easily and Quickly, with no Technical Knowledge A growing number of other interesting AlexanderAudio.com interviews on this topic can be found here.

Some Internet Background
In this conversation, Robert and Eileen talk about the many unique ways in which the web can benefit the Alexander Technique community generally, and individual Alexander teachers in promoting their practice. The work of John Appleton is cited as an example of how new Alexander Technique ideas have been made generally available because of the web. You can find his material here. Click here to listen to this Conversation

The Future of the Alexander Technique
Eileen asks Robert how he thinks the Alexander Technique will be known and used ten years from now. Robert talks a little about the Technique's history and, as is so often the case, he veers off into ways the web can be used to "promote" the Technique, with a heavy emphasis on how to use Twitter. There is a mention of John Basmajian, a well-known anatomist. Click here to listen to this Conversation

Here, Robert actually answers Eileen's question and they talk about some specific areas where the Alexander Technique could make major inroads over the next few years. There is a mention of How you Stand, How you Move, How you Live - Learning the Alexander Technique by Missy Vineyard. John Macy, a physical therapist and Alexander Technique teacher is mentioned, as is the Physical Therapy and Alexander Technique Homepage, to which he's made major contributions. There's also a reference to Robert's article, The New Physical Education. The conversation ends with an impassioned plea to Alexander Technique teachers and students to do their bit to help make the Technique better known. Click here to listen to this Conversation

Robert and Eileen again talk about this topic from the point of view of how the internet has changed, and continues to change, the very naure of the Alexander Technique. It includes a major focus on the web's impact on Alexander Technique professional societies and how they have - and mostly have not - adapted to it. There is also a discussion of ways in which the web can now connect Alexander teachers with perspective students. Click here to listen to this Conversation

Here Robert and Eileen talk about effective ways for Alexander Technique teachers to promote their practices, with a emphasis on the web. There is some discussion of FM's own approach to publiciity (he was, in Robert's words, "the original Tweeter") and the paradoxical reluctance of many in the Technique to embrace the new internet opportunities. The Alexander Technique's situation 30 or 30 years ago is compared with conditions today. Click here to listen to this Conversation

Specific Suggestions for Alexander Technique Teachers
In this conversation, Robert and Eileen advice teachers on how they can use this powerful new medium, the first step being to get a website. Click here to listen to this Conversation

Why Twitter is Important for Alexander Technique Teachers
Here Robert and Eileen discuss Twitter and dispel some false impressions of Twitter. Twitterville from TV Ontario is a very good MP3 talk about Twitter with obvious Alexander Technique implications. Robert promises to create a short Twitter Tutorial and here it is: The Alexander Technique Twitter Project. Robert goes out on a limb (how appropriate!) and makes a startling assertion/prediction about Twitter and the future of the Alexander Technique. Click here to listen to this conversation

In this somewhat longer conversation, Robert and Eileen go into more details of how Alexander Technique teachers and students can use Twitter to make the Technique better known. Click here to listen to this conversation

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