The Dimon Institute

“Evolution of a Technique” is a story of incredible insight and persistence that documents the discovery of an entire field of knowledge. F.M. Alexander's personal narrative does not, however, lay out a curriculum to follow in order to gain the knowledge it contains. 

In this course, Ted Dimon will outline an educational path based on Alexander’s work: skills to be acquired, results to be obtained, and stages of learning to be reached.

Here are some of the topics we will be looking at:

• Why a curriculum is necessary
• How use affects function
• Observing the pattern of harmful use
• The basic organization of body parts
• The concept of "instinctive" or "habitual" manner of use
• The concept of "direction": how muscles are wired to receive messages
• The discipline of "projecting conscious directions" in a sustained manner
• Skills of attention and mindfulness
• Positions of mechanical advantage
• The restoration of natural muscular function
• The postural mechanism, or what Ted Dimon has called the Postural Neuromuscular Reflex (PNR) system 
• The replacement of "instinctive directions" with "conscious directions"
• Inhibition in its fullest meaning
• "Conscious control" as a stage to be reached

8 1-hour classes will be held online via Zoom on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 12pm New York City time, November 10, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, and 24, 26 2025.

Each live session will be recorded, and the recordings will be posted here to allow students to view them later.