My Books


I've written two books on the Alexander Technique;

Mindfulness in 3D; the Alexander Technique for the 21st Century

and

Illusion or Reality; are we Teaching what FM Alexander was Teaching?



Mindfulness in 3D was published in 2018. It is aimed at 'beginners'.

It was reveiwed in STATNews - the news magazine of the mainstream professional body thus:

  • 'This is a wonderful little book that belongs on everyone's AT bookshelf.'

​Reviews on Amazon:

  • 'Thank you Peter Nobes for this important contribution to the AT literature. We finally have a book that speaks the honest truth about what the Alexander Technique actually is. This book is a joy to read.'

  • 'The best intro to the AT so far!'

  • 'Can't recommend this book highly enough.'


Download the preface here.


Illusion or Reality was published in 2024.
It is aimed at Alexander teachers and trainees.

ChatGPT says that the Alexander Technique is a method of '...improving posture, movement, and overall body mechanics. It focuses on increasing awareness of how one uses their body in everyday activities...'
That is an algorithm's distillation of what it found online. It would have distilled something very different from FM's writings. Something like this:
'The Alexander Technique is a powerful method for bringing about profound physical and psychological change. By teaching how to be more conscious, and how to pause and reconsider before acting, it empowers people to take charge of their lives; to drop mental and physical habits and become their authentic selves'.
Why this enormous mismatch?
This book clarifies FM's writings and explains what he was teaching, and answers questions like, how did the work get turned into something focusjng on awareness of body use? Why are so few of us teaching what's in the books? And why do so many of us find FM's simple-but-not-easy books so difficult?

Download the first chapter here.