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ACCLAIM FOR Missy Vineyards

HOW YOU STAND, HOW YOU MOVE, HOW YOU LIVE

Missy Vineyard is an inspired and inspiring teacher, and her book
about the Alexander Technique will help many people become aware
of their own potential for self-mastery. How You Stand, How You Move,
How You Live deserves a wide readership.

ALICE PARKER,
composer, conductor, teacher, founder and artistic
director of Melodious Accord, and board member of
Chorus America

For anyone interested in the mind-body connection and fascinated
by the process of change, How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live
is a gem. It is a rich addition to the Alexander literaturea book to be
read slowly and savored.

JANE KOSMINSKY,
dance faculty, The Juilliard School, and president of the
Balance of Well-being, producer of pioneering videos
about the Alexander Technique

Missy Vineyard has been an Alexander Technique teacher for many
years and now we get to reap the benefits of her research and work in
this superb book. It is exceptionally useful as a way to enrich ones
experience of the Alexander Technique.

JESSICA WOLF,
teacher of the Alexander Technique, The Art of
Breathing in New York City and the Yale School of Drama

Simply by reading How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live, my
mind quieted, my spine lengthened, my breath deepened. Through
entertaining stories and clear directions for practice, Vineyard takes
the beginning student or professional alike into the essence of the
Alexander Technique. Her profound knowledge of neuroscience, years
of study and teaching of the Alexander Technique, and deeply empathic
and curious nature have led to a book which will serve students and
teachers of anyone engaged in physical studies which investigate the
physiological and psychological nature of the mind-body connection.

PEGGY SCHWARTZ,
professor of dance, chair of the dance program,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and former
chair, Five College Dance Department

A unique book in the Alexander literature, How You Stand, How You Move,
How You Live examines in depth the mental processes needed for
successful mastery of the Technique. Missy Vineyards unusual approach
to the difficult subject of inhibition will give the reader many new and
useful insights that significantly will enhance freedom and coordination.

PAUL GARNER,
clarinetist, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and music
faculty, Southern Methodist University

Masterfully written and illustrateda must read for all students of the Alexander Technique.

JUDITH C. STERN, MA, PT, CTAT, senior faculty, American Center for the Alexander Technique, New York

An uncommonly clear introduction to the rationale for the Alexander
Technique and the perfect accompaniment to hands-on Alexander lessons.
How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live is an engaging invitation to
explore the Alexander Technique as a way to inhabit our bodies more
enjoyably over a lifetime.

FRANCES V. MOULDER, PHD, sociologist and author of Social Problems of the Modern World

Missy Vineyard enlightens both the teacher and the student with her original
thesis bridging the working principles of the Alexander Technique with
current knowledge in areas of neuroscience, human behavior, performance
and medical rehabilitation while bringing new meaning to the self-help book.
How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live reaches beyond the typical
Alexander Technique primer to shed light on the subtleties of human behavior
with shrewd observation, original thinking, and rare honesty.

IDELLE S. PACKER, MS, PT,
certified teacher of the Alexander Technique and owner of
Body Sense, Inc., an integrative physical therapy practice in
Asheville, North Carolina

Having experienced Missy Vineyards teaching and read her fascinating
book, I have no doubt that she has developed a most effective and insightful
refinement of the Alexander Technique that all teachers and students would do well to study.

-MICHAEL BLOCH,
author of F . M.: The Life of Frederick Matthias Alexander

How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live is at once an intellectual tour
de force integrating knowledge from several disciplines and a practical
guide to psychosomatic re-education. Theoretically informed yet
thoroughly accessible, it makes fascinating reading. Contemporary
interest in the representation and uses of the body will make this book
very valuable to students of cultural studies as well as teachers and
students of Alexander Technique. Missy Vineyard writes eloquently and
from a position of mastery of her material.

MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ,
professor of literature and psychoanalysis, Emerson College

Vineyards book is particularly successful in two ways: Her description of
the Alexander Technique is clear, comprehensive, compelling, and
pragmatic. She has also made an important contribution to our appreciation
of the value of the Alexander Technique through personal stories of
challenge and accomplishment.

DAVID FELDSHUH, MD, PHD,
professor of theater, Cornell University, and artistic director,
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts

How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live is a gem. It stands out among
the growing number of books about the AT in the lucidity of presentation, as
well as the precision in the discussion of the subtlety of AT. Both in the
narrative and the self-experiments, the practice of AT is conveyed with
clarity and immediacy.

SHIMON MALIN, PhD,
professor of physics, Colgate University

MISSY VINEYARD is one of the foremost master teachers of the Alexander Technique in the United States today. Vineyard is director of the Alexander Technique School New England (ATSNE), a three-year teacher-training program that she founded in 1987, and the author of numerous articles. In 1987 she cofounded AmSAT, the national professional society for Alexander teachers in the United States, and served as its first chairman. For the last twenty years she has devoted much of her schedule to teacher and postgraduate training, and to developing a unique, systematic curriculum for imparting the subtle hands-on skill that is the hallmark of the Alexander teacher. She maintains a busy private teaching practice, specializing in working with performing artists and children to enhance their artistic and athletic performance. Vineyard has two sons and two stepdaughters, and lives with her husband and two standard poodles in Amherst, Massachusetts.

To learn more or contact MissyVineyard, visit her Web site at www.missyvineyard.com.

HOW YOU STAND, HOW YOU MOVE, HOW YOU LIVE:

Learning the Alexander Technique to Explore Your Mind-Body Connection and Achieve Self-Mastery

Copyright 2007 by Missy Vineyard

Illustrations copyright 2007 by Matthew Mitchell

Published by
Marlowe and Company
An Imprint of Avalon Publishing Group, Incorporated
245 West 17th Street 11th Floor
New York, NY 10011-5300

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher, except by reviewers who may quote brief excerpts in connection with a review in a newspaper, magazine, or electronic publication; nor may any part of this book be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or other, without written permission from the publisher.

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