Interview with Stephen Parker – Alexander Technique

I recently interviewed Stephen Parker, an Alexander Technique teacher. We spoke about this technique and about issues and problems related to our instrument, the accordion. I published the interview on planet-accordion.com.

<<[…] we often want solutions, and we want them to be clear and defined […] if your general state of being is to misuse yourself, and by that we mean to shorten, narrow, tighten, as you go into a movement, then it is quite possible that when you do those exercises you are still shortening and narrowing as you do the exercises […] everything can be viewed as a stimulus and everything basically can be reduced to how we respond to that stimulus […]>>

Introduction to the Alexander Technique – Interview with Stephen Parker.