Tommy Thompson places both hands around a seated client's head during an Alexander Technique lesson

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The teaching and work of Tommy Thompson

Resonance Flow brings together detailed records of more than 100 Alexander Technique classes taught by Tommy Thompson, along with Ari Kim’s questions, reflections, and stories from her years of learning with him. Together, they offer an in-depth view of his distinctive approach to awareness, inhibition, movement, relationship, and hands-on work.

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Meet Tommy Thompson

Tommy Thompson has taught the Alexander Technique for more than five decades. He studied with Dr. Frank Pierce Jones, who trained with F. Matthias Alexander, and developed a deeply relational, non-corrective approach centered on awareness, identity, and human possibility.

Founder and director of the Alexander Technique Center at Cambridge, Tommy has trained teachers there since 1983. He taught the Technique at Harvard University for twelve years and is the author of Touching Presence, written with Rachel Prabhakar.

“I teach consciousness.”

Tommy Thompson
50+ Years of Teaching Teacher Training Since 1983 Author of Touching Presence
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What happens when you stop using the past to identify who you are in the present?In this moment from Tommy Thompson’s Alexander Technique Class 100, Tommy describes the liminal moment: a transitional space where the outcome is not yet known and the brain can orient you to what is happening now.Rather than using yourself from the past to identify yourself in the present, the work opens the possibility of being oriented to what is here now.📍 Filmed in Boston, MA, USA 🎓 Tommy Thompson’s Alexander Technique Teacher Training Class 100📝 Blog Class Personal Narrative: The Story That Shapes How You Use Yourself | Tommy Thompson Class 100 https://theresonanceflow.com/alexander-technique/class/personal-narrative-use/#AlexanderTechnique #TommyThompson #ResonanceFlow #AriKim #LiminalMoment #Inhibition #EmbodiedAwareness #SomaticEducation
Is Your Past Defining Who You Are? | Alexander Technique
What makes an Alexander Technique lesson more than a technique?Tommy Thompson distinguishes between a generic lesson and a more individual way of working.A generic lesson works with the relationships within the organism. But the non-generic lesson goes further:“Speak to who you feel they are, as best you’re able to do.”The work is not simply about applying a technique. It is about meeting the person in front of you.📍 Filmed in Boston, MA, USA 🎓 Tommy Thompson’s Alexander Technique Teacher Training Class 100📝 Blog Class Personal Narrative: The Story That Shapes How You Use Yourself | Tommy Thompson Class 100 https://theresonanceflow.com/alexander-technique/class/personal-narrative-use/#AlexanderTechnique #TommyThompson #ResonanceFlow #SomaticEducation #EmbodiedTouch #HandsOnWork
Teach the Technique or Meet the Person? | Alexander Technique
Core InsightThe way we use ourselves can reflect how we relate to who we feel we might become.In this moment from Tommy Thompson’s Class 100, the question moves from use into something deeper: how a teacher can meet and validate someone who is questioning themselves, rather than simply correcting what they are doing.📍 Filmed in Boston, MA, USA 🎓 Tommy Thompson’s Alexander Technique Teacher Training Class 100📝 Blog Class Personal Narrative: The Story That Shapes How You Use Yourself | Tommy Thompson Class 100 https://theresonanceflow.com/alexander-technique/class/personal-narrative-use/#AlexanderTechnique #TommyThompson #ResonanceFlow #AriKim #PersonalNarrative #SelfValidation #SomaticEducation #EmbodiedAwareness
Who Do You Feel You Can Become? | Alexander Technique
Are you really changing—or simply getting better at being the person you’ve always been?In this Short, Tommy Thompson reads from his own writing and explores a deeper relationship between our “use” and the personal narrative through which we experience ourselves.He suggests that changing our use involves more than changing how we move. It can involve loosening our attachment to the familiar story of who we believe ourselves to be—and opening the possibility of discovering who we might actually be capable of becoming.📍 Filmed in Boston, MA, USA 🎓 Tommy Thompson’s Alexander Technique Teacher Training · Class 98📺 Watch the full Class 98 https://youtu.be/HMUnSntzic4📖 Read the full Class 98 article Before You Move, You’ve Already Decided Who You Are: The Liminal Moment | Tommy Thompson Class 98 https://theresonanceflow.com/alexander-technique/class/liminal-moment/#AlexanderTechnique #TommyThompson #ResonanceFlow #AriKim #UseOfSelf #PersonalNarrative #HabitAwareness #WithholdingDefinition
Are You Really Changing—or Just Getting Better at Being You? | Alexander Technique
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