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Your arms: Balancing instruments on the high wire of your self

by admin | Dec 29, 2014 | Uncategorized

Arms. They embrace, they hit, they hurl, they rise, they implore, they cross, they repel and rappel. They accomplish wonders. They are part of the equation that makes mankind so blessed, so fearfully and wonderfully made. With that elegant tool at their ends, thumb...

Alexander Technique: An arduous road of self-discovery

by admin | Dec 26, 2014 | Alexander lesson, Alexander Technique, resentment, Self-disovery, stiff neck

Is this it, that when we release a hold in the body it gives us the opportunity to release a holding in the mind as well? A resentment resurfaces and that old shoulder complaint reappears. A connection. Freeing the body gives us the opportunity, perhaps, the...

Not gold, not frankincense, not myrrh, not a Ferrari. Something better.

by admin | Dec 22, 2014 | Alexander Technique, Back pain, Posture

I am looking at a photograph, a street scene of turn-of-the-previous-century San Francisco. Men and women are crossing the street, walking on the sidewalk, some carrying lumber, some of them parcels. There is horizontal motion and there is the vertical element to...

The Alexander Technique, not just for chickens any more

by admin | Dec 15, 2014 | Alexander Technique, Posture

This little hen and rooster really have it going on. “It,” you say, just what is this “it?” Well, since you ask, “it” is a life force, an innate animal alertness, forward and up, an endowment. Don’t you see it? It’s not forward and up in space, it’s...

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad

by admin | Dec 11, 2014 | Alexander Technique, Back pain, breathing, resentment

Resentment, from the Latin re, again, and sentire, to feel, is to feel something again, to revisit the negative landmarks of our past. If the lesson of this age is that we are minded body and embodied mind, resentment must be felt throughout our entire systems, in...
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