Now, obviously, you are going to give the pupil advice to lie down, to do this without fail, to do this for 10 minutes a day, for five minutes if there isn’t time. To do it if necessary before tumbling into bed at night, but to do it. People who are going to be on their own, and are not going to have the possibility of having Alexander lessons, do need to have some kind of a reminder and if you could manage getting them to form a habit of lying down, even just shortly and briefly, it does act as a reminder. It does keep them thinking about it. They won’t let it go altogether.
Walter Carrington (“Thinking Aloud” – The Last Lesson p157)