Some quotes about the Alexander Technique

• Alexander established not only the beginning of a far reaching science of the apparently involuntary movements we call reflexes, but a technique of connection [i.e. integration] and self control which forms a substantial addition to our very slender resources in personal education.

  George Bernard Shaw, playwright.

• I recommend the Alexander treatment as an extremely sophisticated form of rehabilitation, or rather redeployment, of the entire muscular equipment, and through that of many other organs.  Compared with this, many types of physiotherapy which are now in general use look surprisingly crude and restricted in their effect, and sometimes even harmful to the rest of the body..

  Professor N. Tinbergen, Acceptance Oration for the Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology, 1973.

• The Alexander Technique gives us all the things we have been looking for in a system of physical education; relief from strain due to maladjustment and consequent improvement in physical and mental health; and along with this a heightening of consciousness on all levels.  We cannot ask more from any system; nor, if we seriously desire to alter human beings in a desirable direction, can we ask any less.

  Aldous Huxley, an excerpt from his book ‘Ends and Means’

• I have given a good deal of attention to some of the various methods [of physical education], and have formed a definite opinion as to which is the best of those that came under my observation.  I should, without hesitation, give First Place to the system associated with the name of Mr. F. Matthias Alexander.  He has secured remarkable results.

  Dr. Alexander Leeper, in a report to the Australian Federal Government's Schools and Registration Board.

• His [Alexander's] procedure and conclusions meet all the requirements of the strictest scientific method.  It [Alexander's technique] bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.

  Professor John Dewey, From his introduction to Alexander's book The Use of the Self.