by admin | May 23, 2022 | Blog
Here is an inconvenient fact, a pure falsetto cannot be sustained. The sustained sounds that many students and teachers demonstrate as falsetto are a form of head voice, so called, they are not truly falsetto.. The pure falsetto is hooty, like the bottom notes of a...
by admin | May 19, 2022 | Blog, Competencies
Neutrality, the vocal tract uniformly open along its length, lips of the glottis to the lips of the mouth, cancels habit. It is the beginning to which we all long to return, the sound of the body itself expressed in the neutral vowel, schwa. It is an inarticulate...
by admin | Apr 23, 2020 | Alexander Technique, Awareness, Blog, Power walk, Self care, Technologies of the self, Walking
Power your walk. Lead with your lower dantian and let your eyes look toward your goal or an intermediate point. Let your eyes drift down to guide your step, but just the eyes, not your head ,as your back stays...
by admin | Apr 19, 2020 | Blog
Have a nascent knee problem? Make sure you’re not “favoring” the knee. In doing so, you weaken the entire column and end up making the knee do work it’s not supposed to be doing. Rather, make sure your mighty thigh and femur (the largest bone...
by admin | Apr 16, 2020 | Alexander Technique, Art, Attention, Awareness, Gesture, Hands, Meditation, Presence, Technologies of the self
A meditative practice. What if, rather than putting things down in the place you last used them, you paused and placed every object a relationship to the objects around it. Nanette Walsh in her recent book, Unsmudged, recounts that police investigating a break-in at...
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