In this 67th edition, we release the second part of our conversation discussing the 2025 paper, “Pause, observe, intend.” This time, the conversation goes behind the scenes of the research process, exploring what made the study distinctive, the challenges the team encountered, and how they hope to draw further insights from the data they collected.

In this 66th edition, we release the first part of our conversation with Patrick Johnson, Gabriella Minnes Brandes, Victoria Door, and Rajal G. Cohen about their 2025 paper, “Pause, observe, intend.” This conversation explores the background to the study, key findings, and how mindfulness and the Alexander Technique may work as distinct but complementary approaches to stress.

In this episode, Marcus James—AT teacher and psychotherapist—joins Lesley Glover to discuss how these two disciplines intersect and inform each other. Their conversation touches on working with emotion in an AT context, the overlap between AT and body-focused therapies, and how Marcus draws from both fields in his approach to teaching and care.