Technique and teaching

I found an interesting AT related podcast few days ago, it's called Body Learning:

http://bodylearning.buzzsprout.com/

I chose to listen to the interview with Harriet Anderson first:

http://www.harrietanderson.com/index_english.shtml

I found the interview very relevant to my current school teaching experience, and just can't help to quote few sentences:

Where we like it or not, we are all performers. Every day life is full of small stage entrances and exits. And whether we like it or not, every time we enter a classroom, we are putting on the performance.

(from The Teacher´s Body as a Teaching Tool - The Alexander Technique and Performance Skills for Teachers, full article is available on H.Anderson's website)

And more from the interview:

If a teacher is living the principles of AT in the classroom, the the classroom atmosphere will be much more conducive to learning, so the pupils immediately benefit from that ... Pupils will benefit from increased alertness, increased sense of well being if they can sense that a teacher is in the state of well being...