The Act of Living - Talks on the Alexander Technique
by Walter Carrington

Published 1999                        188 pages

This second volume of Walter Carrington's talks contains 29 talks given to trainees on the many aspects of teaching and living the Technique.  This may regarded as the second volume of Thinking Aloud.  Some of the 29 talks are titled: Thinking to do; General functioning; The primary wish; Forward and up; Knees forward and away; The length and the width; Walking; Yin and yang; Establishing a total pattern; Responsibility; Gravitation; and Saying and meaning no.

Foreword by the 'postural physiologist' Tristan Roberts and an introduction by Glynn Macdonald, and biographies.

About the Author
Walter Carrington (1915 - 2005) was one of the world's foremost exponents of the Alexander Technique who inspired generations of teachers.  Carrington worked alongside F M Alexander himself until he died in 1955 and developed own school - now the Constructive Teaching Centre in London after his death.  Instead of adopting a pre-existing teaching approach Walter and his wife Dylis evolved a way of teaching and training in accord with the principles of the Alexander technique itself. Their methods have been taken up by training courses throughout the world.  Carrington was an inspirational teacher because he embodied the principles of the technique in his own life and his observations in printed form are essential reading for any serious student of the Alexander Technique.