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This footage from the 2021 Modern Guitar Summit features Alexander Technique Teacher Adrian Farrell giving an introduction to the technique.

Here are the notes and links Adrian references-

This is the Constructive Rest exercise:

https://www.alexander-technique-online.com/2015/05/04/alexander-technique-exercise-semi-supine/

Try and find time to do this for at least 15 minutes a day.

And here’s some other blogs that effectively make good revision notes on many of the points I made.

This article has a good diagram of the “sit bones” and their relationship to the torso:

https://www.alexander-technique-online.com/2015/01/08/stand-on-your-bottom-what-the-truth-about-sitting/

And how to get to the chair:

https://www.alexander-technique-online.com/2017/03/23/don-t-sit-down-squat/

And here’s a reminder of the head/neck relationship:

https://www.alexander-technique-online.com/2014/10/03/where-s-your-head-at-and-is-it-causing-you-back-pain-part-1/

https://www.alexander-technique-online.com/2014/11/06/where-s-your-head-at-and-is-it-causing-your-back-pain-part-2/

More of the same as a video:

https://www.alexander-technique-online.com/2020/02/25/the-head-neck-relationship-aka-the-primary-control/