“Have I ever told you how FM came to use his hands in teaching? No? Well, after FM recovered his voice, he earned part of his living teaching drama students. I remember him telling me: ‘It never occurred to me that they wouldn’t be able to do what I told them. But they just couldn’t understand what I was talking about. So when they pulled their heads back, I just put my hands on and made an adjustment.’ Later on, of course, he realised that it was because their sensory appreciation was so awful that he was having trouble getting the explanation across. But the way he used his hands was kind of instinctive at first.”
(Taken from “Alexander Technique: the Ground Rules” – part 1 p46)