by admin | Jan 28, 2015 | Alexander lesson, Alexander Technique, ballistic, ballistic movement, Singing
In Stanley Kubrik’s film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the chimpanzees, actually humans in chimp costumes, are at play in a boneyard. With one mighty downward stroke, one bone, or another resting upon it, is launched upward. It rotates, hangs in the air and morphs from bone...
by admin | Jan 19, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Hands, touch
What if there were a healing art, an art of which the French, Italians, Spanish, and Brazilians, were masters, one that is largely ignored in the States. What if the practice of this art promoted flow of the secretions, broke barriers, and healed old wounds? What is...
by admin | Jan 16, 2015 | Alexander lesson, Alexander Technique, breathing, Meditation, Presence, Self-disovery, Walking
I used to imagine my body as a façade, a two-dimensional picture of my self that I projected forward in space. I was equally self-important as self-deluded. Now, after 10 years of earnest study of the Alexander Technique, I imagine my body as a façade, a...
by admin | Jan 15, 2015 | Alexander lesson, breathing, Posture, Self-disovery, Standing
Rx, a prescription, from the Latin, recipere, take thou. Here’s my prescription for today. It’s as simple as it is transforming. Rx. Stand with your back toward a wall, heels, say, 4-6 inches from the wall’s surface, completely independent of it,...
by admin | Jan 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
Alexander Technique and Quality of Life: Decline and fall. For some of us perhaps many, that downward trajectory will pattern our last days. Not pleasant to think about, far worse to experience. If the Alexander Technique were taught as an essential part of adult...
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