The Alexander Technique is old. One of the implications of that is that over time different teachers evolved different ideas and there are significant differences between teachers. The one teacher with whom I had a 5-day course said that in her teacher training they practice sitting up and sitting down for hundreds of hours. I was talking with another Alexander technique teacher and they said that didn’t do the “sitting up and down”-thing that intensely.
The level of conscious access you can get with one lesson per week and the level that you can get with very intensive training are different.
If you approach it as a behaviorist exercise as you describe that’s not a practice of increasing conscious access. If you want to train conscious access then it would make sense to add more of a Feldenkrais-like approach of playful discovery. In that, the teacher’s job is to point your attention to what’s outside of your attention.
The Alexander Technique is old. One of the implications of that is that over time different teachers evolved different ideas and there are significant differences between teachers. The one teacher with whom I had a 5-day course said that in her teacher training they practice sitting up and sitting down for hundreds of hours. I was talking with another Alexander technique teacher and they said that didn’t do the “sitting up and down”-thing that intensely.
The level of conscious access you can get with one lesson per week and the level that you can get with very intensive training are different.
If you approach it as a behaviorist exercise as you describe that’s not a practice of increasing conscious access. If you want to train conscious access then it would make sense to add more of a Feldenkrais-like approach of playful discovery. In that, the teacher’s job is to point your attention to what’s outside of your attention.