Book Recommendations

• The Use of the Self, F Matthias Alexander. The most accessible book by the creator of the Alexander Technique.
• Mindfulness in 3D, by Peter Nobes, is aimed at ‘beginners’.
  Illusion or Reality, is aimed at Alexander teachers and trainees.
  Both available via https://www.alexandertech.co.uk/my-books/
• Lessons with Miss Goldie, Penelope Easten. Very easy to read. Miss Goldie was probably the closest teacher to F. M. Alexander. €10.00 Ebook at
  https://alexandertechniqueinfo.org/product-category/books/
• Alexander Technique The Twelve Fundamentals of Integrated Movement, P Easten.
  For serious students. Based on Miss Goldies work and extensive research.
  Also from https://alexandertechniqueinfo.org/product-category/books/ €60.00
• The One Minute Manager, Kenneth Blanchard. A simple book about how to get the best out of people.
• Don’t Shoot the Dog, Karen Pryor. Not just about animal training, but how we inadvertently use these principles on each other.
• The Inner Game of Tennis, W Timothy Gallwey. Getting out of the way of your deeper abilities.
• Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel. Similar to the inner game: A lesson in patience and trust.
• The Road Less Travelled, M Scott Peck. His most famous book about integrity.
• People of the Lie, M Scott Peck. Much less well known, but highly valuable. What makes people evil?
• The Crowd, Gustave LaBonne. The first (and fascinating) book on crowd psychology.
• Sperm are from Men, Eggs are from Women, Joe Quirk. How our biology makes us act the way we do. Better than, though a good companion to the well known:
• Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, by John Gray. About the different logical and emotional approaches of men and women and how best to respond to them.
• People Skills: How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others and Resolve Conflicts, by Robert Bolton. Has some great suggestions of how to avoid and defuse arguments and bring about understanding.

Links and External Resources

• Loosen Up page on Facebook
  http://www.facebook.com/HowToLoosenUp
• My X/Twitter Account @LoosenUpOrg
• Alexander Technique International https://www.alexandertechniqueinternational.org/

Articles and Presentations for Alexander Teachers

Alexander Technique International articles for their ExChange magazine

• ATI Exchange 2025 May
  Using NLP and Positive Reinforcement to teach the Alexander Technique
• ATI Exchange 2025 December
  An Introduction to NLP for Alexander Teachers Part 1 – Language Patterns
• ATI Exchange2026 May
  An Introduction to NLP for Alexander Teachers Part 2 – The Structure of Thinking
• I am also presenting at the ATI Conference in Frankfurt, 16th to 21st October
  https://alti.memberclicks.net/2026-ati-annual-conference-schedule
  Bookings at https://alti.memberclicks.net/conference-2026

Article and presentation slides for the 13th International Alexander Technique Congress (IATC) Dublin, August 2025

• My article in the Congress Papers 2025 – More succinct than the ATI article
  Using NLP and Positive Reinforcement to teach the Alexander Technique
• Presentation Slides https://loosenup.org/wp-content/uploads/Dublin_Congress_Aug2025_Using-NLP.pdf
• My bio at the Congress: https://atcongressdublin.com/presenters/david-owen/
• My presentation details: https://atcongressdublin.com/events/using-nlp-and-positive-reinforcement-to-teach-the-alexander-technique/
• My demonstration details: https://atcongressdublin.com/events/demonstrations-and-coaching-of-using-nlp-and-positive-reinforcement-to-teach-the-alexander-technique/
• The Congress papers from 2004 are free at https://www.atcongress.org/papers
  and some back to 1998 are £12 at https://www.atcongress.org/congresses
• There is an article on Alexander’s pre-term birth by Jennifer Kellow in
  The Congress Papers Lugano 2008- From Generation to Generation Volume 1 at
  https://www.atcongress.org/papers/p/congress-papers-berlin-2022-nurturing-our-work-now-mpdfc-k9y2y (Free download)
• Jennifer’s work with pre term babies is described on her about page
  https://alexanderbabies.com/about/
• Thanks go to Penelope Easten and her course Walk alongside Alexander
  for information about Jennifer.
  Penelope’s website is at https://alexandertechniqueinfo.org/