by admin | Aug 28, 2014 | Meeting
Gravitas, gravity acting through us. We know it when we see it and we all desire it. We want our speech, our gesture, our actions to have import, substance, all that which stands beneath and underlies us. Tension in our joints causes gravity to act differently on each...
by admin | Aug 25, 2014 | Meeting
Waiting for spontaneity: According to Vic Braden, The Inner Game of Tennis, “when our motive is the result, winning or losing, the brain reverts and recruits the muscles that it has used in the past.” I love the word “recruits” as he uses it...
by admin | Aug 17, 2014 | Alexander Technique, Eliptical trainer, Running, Walking
Where is forward and up? It’s always a moving target. One location where it seems plain to me is on an elliptical trainer. While you’re in motion, imagine, just imagine, your occiput, the base of your skill pulling down toward the shoulders. Notice how...
by admin | Aug 1, 2014 | Alexander Technique, Back pain, Walking
I was at the filling station corner of Flood and Main, just across from Norman High, in Norman, Oklahoma. I was walking in front of the car, chest high, posing quite a bit for the young female in the passenger’s seat. Getting back in the car—having fulfilled my...
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