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Pedro De Alcantara
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Backtracked
   3.48 avg rating — 56 ratings
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2009
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Indirect Procedures: A Musician's Guide to the Alexander Technique
4.33 avg rating — 27 ratings
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1997
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Befiddled
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2005
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The Alexander Technique: A Skill for Life
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1999
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Integrated Practice: Coordination, Rhythm & Sound
5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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2011
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| "Zona" is a meditation on Tarkovski's great film "Stalker." The author gives a detailed breakdown of plot (such as it is, in a metaphysical film in which the plot is more or less secondary) and cinematography, and adds a running commentary. Unfortuna...more | |
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| Quite a helpful way to look at the body, posture, and movement. The technical vocabulary is demanding . . . with a glossary, this book would get an extra star. | |
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| I'm a musician myself, and this book helped me understand and sense music as a potential divine healing force. | |
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| I really wanted to like this book, but the fiction element loses out to the metaphysical disquisitions. | |
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| Multidimensional story that manages to encompass politics, a love story, a prophet, and out-of-space blobs invading Earth. Fun & freaky! | |
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| Creativity, intelligence, integrity, discipline, humor, risk-taking . . . Richard Feynman is a teacher to us all. | |
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| This is a mind-opening, mind-bending, mind-caressing, and mind-shaping book. It helped me understand some basic mechanisms in all human relationships, thereby making me a more astute and compassionate interlocutor. It invited me to embrace improvisat...more | |
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“Mud covered me from face to feet. I couldn’t straighten my body, however much I tried to.
But I was alive.
I was alive and I could do seventy push-ups in the mud with a freaking bazooka tied to my back.
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― Pedro De Alcantara, Backtracked
But I was alive.
I was alive and I could do seventy push-ups in the mud with a freaking bazooka tied to my back.
”
― Pedro De Alcantara, Backtracked
