Concentration: Powerful Skill or Harmful Habit? - Introduction

Send us Fan Mail Robert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware in which we introduce our four conversations about the two types of concentration, why it is important to distinguish one from the other, and what F. M. Alexander had to say about them in his second book, "Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual". We discuss how this topic brings out aspects of F. M. Alexander's thinking - sometimes very good, and sometimes problematical - that have huge implications for how the Technique is taught today. We also discuss how potential Alexander Technique students may find that their concentration improves as a sort of "side-effect" of taking lessons for the usual reasons - back pain, stress, improving skill for performers and the like. Imogen's website: Robert's website: More information about the Alexander Technique: Below are the links to all four of our video conversations: Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Below are the audio podcast versions of our conversation: Introduction: Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4:

You can listen to Concentration: Powerful Skill or Harmful Habit? - Introduction online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

Concentration: Powerful Skill or Harmful Habit? - Introduction is an episode from Body Learning: The Alexander Technique by Robert Rickover.

This episode is 12:48 long.

This episode was published on Sep 12, 2025.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Body Learning: The Alexander Technique when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.