WALTER CARRINGTON'S VIEW OF THE SCOPE OF THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE

                                                                  IN CONVERSATION WITH JOE ARMSTRONG

 

The most meaningful and powerful thing that Walter Carrington ever said to me was in a private lesson during the time I was on his teacher's training course in London (1969-1972).  I can’t remember what the general subject of our conversation was that day, but we were obviously discussing the broader implications for humanity of Alexander’s discoveries, rather than the usual nuts and bolts of how to get on with daily living that Walter was so superb at talking you through.  These words have certainly guided me in a fundamental way through my living and teaching over the last forty-odd years.

 

Walter said, "You know, Joe, I don’t give too much thought to religion and spiritual things, but I DO think there is such a thing as 'the human spirit.'  And I also believe that there’s such a thing as 'the evolution of the human spirit,' and, to me, that’s what the Alexander Work is really about: the evolution of the human spirit.”*

 

*This quote was included in the book Remembering Walter Carrington, but it was changed by the editor without my permission or knowledge to read as if I were the one saying that the Alexander Work is really about the evolution of the human spirit.