COMPANION

Swimming

Books

  • The Art of Swimming by Steven Shaw and Armand D’Angour.[1]
  • Master the Art of Swimming by Steven Shaw.[2]

Articles

  • ‘Learning to swim without strain: An Alexander teacher’s perspective’ by Steven Shaw.[3]
  • ‘Unchartered waters: The Alexander Technique and swimming’ by Steven Shaw considers a number of Alexander Technique inspired preparations for swimming, breathing, the aquatic monkey, the launch, the glide, finding the feet.[4]
  • ‘Weightless directions: The Shaw way’ by Jane-Ann Purdy; on the history and development of the Shaw method, the model of training teachers in the Shaw method, and the four essential teaching prompts used by every teacher of the Shaw method.[5]

Video

  • The Art of Swimming Video [Video tape, DVD] by Steven Shaw.[6]
References

[1] The Art of Swimming by Steven Shaw and Armand D’Angour (Ashgrove Publishing, 1996).
[2] Master the Art of Swimming by Steven Shaw (Collins & Brown, 2006).
[3] ‘Learning to swim without strain: An Alexander teacher’s perspective’ by Steven Shaw in STATNews vol. 4, no. 13 edited by Malcolm Williamson (STAT, September 1995), pp. 1, 15.
[4] ‘Unchartered waters: The Alexander Technique and swimming’ by Steven Shaw in The Alexander Journal no. 17 edited by Francesca Greenoak (STAT, 2001), pp. 2–8.
[5] ‘Weightless directions: The Shaw way’ by Jane-Ann Purdy in Direction vol. 3, no. 9 edited by Paul Cook (Direction Journal, 2015), pp. 22–26.
[6] The Art of Swimming Video [Video tape, DVD] by Steven Shaw (author, 1998).
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