by the founding teachers of the Alexander Technique Studio.

1. The Alexander Technique is an art: practising and teaching the Technique is first and foremost an art.

2. The Technique is a continuous process, a way of working, a way of living.

3. Learning the Technique is a process of exploration and discovery.

4. Learning the Technique is a process of experimenting and testing: making mistakes can provide us with more information than "getting things right".

5. Student participates actively: the teacher and the student are engaged together in making discoveries.

6. Sensory appreciation is fundamental to life: learning to use perception as stimulation (e.g. motivation) instead of habit.

7. Sensory appreciation is fundamental to perception: the Technique is used to improve perception.

8. Sensory appreciation is the means through which we experience life. Because we learn from experience, sensory appreciation is fundamental to learning.

9. Wholeness precedes parts: the release and lengthening of the whole muscular suit precedes the release and lengthening of local or individual muscles.

10. Directed thought precedes action: inhibition and direction come before movement.

11. Inhibition and direction are interdependent: both are required for the practice of the Technique.

12. Discovering balance: being in balance ensures the optimum condition for releasing.

13. The Technique is taught and learned by individuals: the teaching approach is adapted to the individual.

14. Natural, individual progression: you build on what you are capable of at each moment.

15. Individual’s needs and capabilities are respected: we are discovering limits as well as going beyond them.

16. A stimulus as an opportunity to inhibit and direct is to be welcomed.

17. Life is movement: e.g. a monkey is not a still, static position but a dynamic moving position which the individual can move in and from.

18. All movements prior to which one can prepare with inhibition and direction are subject to exploration and for applying the Technique.

19. Simple movements provide the springboard for complex movements: movements are built up slowly by simple steps, each of which are investigated in detail.

20. Simple movements are used to test the means-whereby we use ourselves in activity: in acting and reacting.

21. Change may make us vulnerable: a secure and non-threatening environment is paramount for learning the Technique.

22. Conscious control involves choice in how we react to stimuli. Becoming more conscious of our choices makes us more in control of ourselves. We become responsible for the way we react.

23. Only the self can be responsible for itself: the development of self-responsibility is a corollary of practising choice over one’s psycho-physical reaction.

24. Anatomy, physiology, and the reading of Alexander’s books are practically applied to the daily work on the training course.