Alexander Technique is one somatic technique of many. All of them lead to skillful movement and without background knowledge there no reason to assume that a specific technique inspired Dune.
I don't think that discussing it is inherently impossible. It just hard. It's even more hard when the people you are talking with don't have the background to understand the basic claims and then want peer reviewed research for every claim.
If you want to discuss issues around shifting around your center of gravity than the people you talk to have to know what you mean with shifting around one's center of gravity and it's not something that can be easily done via a blog post.
Alexander Technique is one somatic technique of many. All of them lead to skillful movement and without background knowledge there no reason to assume that a specific technique inspired Dune.
I was guessing based on timing, but looking into Herbert I'm not seeing any obvious influence. It's more a statement of Dune's impact on how I think about movement than it is about Herbert, it looks like.
I don't think that discussing it is inherently impossible. It just hard.
Well, you can certainly elaborate the basic intellectual edifice, as done for Zen here....
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