Posture Poise and Positive Health
by Dr Grahame Fagg

Published 2006                        204 pages

Dr Grahame Fagg practised as a medical doctor from 1938 to 1980 and one of his main desires in life was to help people to improve their posture.  He was convinced that many of us suffer emotional stresses during childhood which result in fixed body postures that remain throughout adult life.  These frequently bring aches, pains and other forms of debilitating illnesses. The book gives advice to help us restore the original posture we once enjoyed in early childhood.  It also opens the way to a new, better and healthier life by relieving the strains and stresses we may well have inflicted upon ourselves during adulthood, preventing us from living full, relaxed and happier lives.

Dr Fagg worked with Charles Neil (a teacher who taught an offshoot of the Alexander Technique) in the 1950s.  In this book, Fagg introduces the most basic concepts of the Technique without using the usual vocabulary of the Technique, or acknowledging the existence of any other literature or teaching society.  So perhaps should be treated with some caution in relation to the Technique.  A large part of the book is dedicated to the interesting and curious descriptions of his own experiments and discoveries about movement and use.

About the Author
Grahame Fagg (1916-2002) qualified as a doctor in 1938 at St Bartholomews Hospital in London. In 1950 he was appointed Consultant Paediatrician for Hertfordshire and North Bedfordshire, retiring in 1980.  He devoted his life to working with sick children but latterly became fascinated in studying the relationship between posture and disease.  The result is this book.