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Category Archives: Marjorie Barstow

Change Your Tune

Body Learning Blog Posted on January 4, 2016 by Robert RickoverJanuary 4, 2016

I once assisted the late Marjorie Barstow on a teaching trip to a large mid-western university where she gave classes in the Alexander Technique to Music Department faculty and students. In one class, a professor asked for help playing the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alexander Technique, Marjorie Barstow | Tagged Alexander Technique, F. Matthias Alexander, Marjorie Barstow | 8 Replies

When will you finally get it?

Body Learning Blog Posted on May 21, 2013 by Robert RickoverMay 2, 2021

Picture this Alexander Technique workshop scene: About 30 people of widely varying ages and experience with the Technique are seated in a circle in a basement classroom of a university music department. Standing in the center of the group is … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alexander Technique, Marjorie Barstow | Tagged Alexander Technique, Marjorie Barstow | 18 Replies

Horse Sense and Sensibility

Body Learning Blog Posted on December 12, 2012 by Robert RickoverApril 29, 2013

Many years ago I showed a copy of the Equitation issue of Direction Journal to Marjorie Barstow, the first person to graduate from the first Alexander Technique training course. Until her death at age 95, she was the world’s senior … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alexander Technique, F. Matthias Alexander, Horseback Riding, Marjorie Barstow | Tagged Alexander Technique, F. Matthias Alexander, horses, Marjorie Barstow | 18 Replies

Marj Barstow: Master Teacher of the Alexander Technique

Body Learning Blog Posted on October 23, 2012 by Robert RickoverNovember 11, 2020

Marjorie Barstow, who everybody called Marj, was the first person to graduate from F. Matthias Alexander’s first training course.  She worked for a while with FM’s brother Albert Redden Alexander in Boston and New York and then on the eve … Continue reading →

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Posted in Albert Redden Alexander, Alexander Technique, F. Matthias Alexander, Marjorie Barstow, Nebraska | Tagged Albert Redden Alexander, Alexander Technique, F. Matthias Alexander, Lincoln, Marjorie Barstow, Nebraska | 5 Replies

Alexander joins the NeuroZone

Body Learning Blog Posted on April 10, 2012 by Robert RickoverSeptember 17, 2019

Marjorie Barstow, a well-known teacher of the Alexander Technique used to say “Someday there will be a science of human movement that incorporates Alexander’s discoveries.”  (Alexander is F. Matthias Alexander, the developer of the Alexander Technique.) I was always a … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alexander Technique, F. Matthias Alexander, Marjorie Barstow, Neuroscience | Tagged Alexander Technique, F. Matthias Alexander, Marjorie Barstow, neuroscience | 2 Replies

“Take a gambling chance”

Body Learning Blog Posted on March 28, 2012 by Robert RickoverMarch 19, 2019

That’s a phrase the late Marjorie Barstow used a lot.  When she was 90 years old, someone she had never met called and asked if she’d fly – by herself – across the country, to a city where she’d never … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alexander Technique, F. Matthias Alexander, Gambling, Marjorie Barstow | Tagged Alexander Technique, F. Matthias Alexander, gambling, Marjorie Barstow | 13 Replies

Pity Poor Posture…So Terribly Misunderstood

Body Learning Blog Posted on March 14, 2012 by Robert RickoverSeptember 2, 2019

I recently tried to do an interview with Posture for the Alexander Technique podcast, but he’d moved so far from civilization – and good internet connections – that the audio quality was terrible.  But he has an important point he … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alexander Technique, F. Matthias Alexander, John Dewey, Marjorie Barstow, Posture | Tagged Alexander Technique, F. Matthias Alexander, John Dewey, Marjorie Barstow, posture | 4 Replies

“A Little bit of Nothing”

Body Learning Blog Posted on February 29, 2012 by Robert RickoverAugust 30, 2019

That’s how Alexander Technique teacher Marjorie Barstow often described her work.  Sometimes, towards the end of her four-week summer workshops she’d say to the group: “Now when you get home, and people ask you what you learned in Nebraska, you … Continue reading →

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