The Alexander Technique : the revolutionary way to use your body for total energy / by Sarah Barker.

  • Barker, Sarah
Date:
1978
  • Books

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Description

"Imagine a technique that begins with one simple movement and transforms every muscle in your entire body… a technique so easy you can learn it yourself… and so amazingly effective that your whole life may change for the better. The Alexander Technique. Nobel Prize-winner Nikolaas Tinbergen hailed the discovery of the technique. With "growing amazement" he and his family noted "very striking improvements" in high blood pressure, depth of sleep, overall cheerfulness and mental alertness. Tinbergen concluded that the technique may often produce "profound and beneficial effects" to help: relieve rheumatism, various forms of arthritis and respiratory ailments; remedy circulation defects that may le[ad to] high blood pressure; alleviate many digestive disorders; […] sexual failures, migraines and depression. Now you can le[arn the] secrets of this unique, effortless technique and begin to real[ise] full physical and mental potential, starting today." -- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Toronto ; London : Bantam Books, 1978.

Physical description

xii, 112 pages : black and white villustrations ; 18 cm

Related material

This item was donated as part of the Godfrey Boyle archive held by Wellcome Collection, reference PP/GBO https://wellcomecollection.org/works/t5pbagvp

Notes

Copy 1. Donor: Godfrey Boyle.

Ownership note

Copy 1 : Name hadwritten on inside front cover: Godfrey Boyle.

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    M30676

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ISBN

  • 0553112821
  • 9780553112825