Michael Ashcroft – Fundamentals of Alexander Technique
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Michael Ashcroft – Fundamentals of Alexander Technique
Description of Fundamentals of Alexander Technique
Alexander Technique frees you from patterns that keep you stuck
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Not Viktor Frankl, actually
Alexander Technique is an embodied, real-world mindfulness practice that doesn’t involve sitting on a cushion. It can help you notice, expand and play within that space between stimulus and response.
This is valuable because the entire scope of human experience can be enhanced by being able to make new choices in response to things that happen in your internal and external worlds.
Alexander Technique gives you conscious control over your awareness and from there more agency in any aspect of your life, whether it’s how you move, how you think, how you perform, how you speak, how you relate to others or how you relate to yourself.
Alexander Technique gives you effortless high performance
You know the experience of beginners’ luck, where you’re feeling playful, not trying hard to do well, and your body just does the thing perfectly? That’s what practicing Alexander Technique can give you.
If you’re an athlete or performer, you’ll be familiar with the experience of performance anxiety, or ‘choking’. Under pressure you overthink, try too hard and get in your own way. Your performance suffers.
The way out is not to try even harder, but to notice and stop doing all the things that are interfering with your natural abilities.
Alexander Technique gets you back in the zone, consciously and consistently.
What you will learn in Fundamentals of Alexander Technique
Course contents
You will get immediate access to two things: the core course and one Power Up on speaking and social skills.
Power ups are deep dives into specific applications of Alexander Technique, and more will be coming with time.
Core course: gain conscious control of your awareness
The core Fundamentals of Alexander Technique course introduces the key concepts in an experiential way.
It’s about four to five hours’ of self-paced text, audio and video content split into the following sections:
- Introduction
- Mindset
- What is the Alexander Technique?
- Meta skills
- Experiencing expanded awareness
- Hijacking your expanded awareness
- Revealing your habitual approaches to control
- Non-doing: giving you conscious, constructive control
- Let’s talk about posture
- Taking this into your life
- The vault (various bonus materials)
Power up: Improve your speaking and social skills
Alexander Technique is a powerful way to change the way you come across with people across many contexts.
You can learn to create a stronger connection, develop greater stage presence when you give presentations and easily access your own ideas while you speak.
With practice, you can learn to open up an innate and confident playfulness that will spread through everything you say.
The course includes a ‘power up’, with more than an hour of extra videos, specifically on speaking and social skills:
- General principles
- Individuals and small groups
- Public speaking
- Camera presence
About Michael Ashcroft
Hi, I’m Michael.
I believe that we humans have qualities that make us intrinsically worthwhile: curiosity, contemplation, the drive to explore our internal and external worlds, the capacity to experience awe.
I’m fascinated by how we can move towards the best versions of ourselves — individually and collectively — and live our lives as fully as possible.
My website is how I let the others find me.
In February 2021 I said goodbye to a ten year corporate and consulting career in low carbon energy innovation to pursue my dream of living a self-directed life as a free agent. In February 2022 I left the UK with my partner to travel the world while working entirely online.
I’m still exploring what this year will look like, but here are some things I’ll be playing with.
Exploring what it means to be creative. I write a weekly newsletter called Thinking Out Loud, I write essays on this website and I have a YouTube channel. I also publish regularly in my Notebook, which is where less polished, early stage ideas go.
Expanding my Alexander Technique online course. I am a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, an awareness based educational process that helps people live with greater ease and freedom. Alexander Technique is conventionally taught in person and through touch, and I think this course is the first and only of its kind ever to exist. The best place to hear about this is by checking
out my dedicated website for Alexander Technique and adjacent topics, Expanding Awareness.
Developing new digital products. I have a lot of ideas of little things I can make that might be of benefit to others, so I’ll be playing around with some of these this year. The first one is going to be a course called Playful Creativity, which will help people get out of their own way and allow their natural creativity to emerge easily and playfully.
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