by admin | Dec 17, 2017 | Alexander lesson, Alexander Technique, Attention, Self-disovery, Thought, touch
Yesterday, Saturday, a student, a woman who manages an organic farm, came in for a follow-up lesson. She reported the fruitage from a previous lesson, the release of tension in her pelvis on the side of an old injury or issue, the quieting for some time of her hive...
by admin | Jan 11, 2016 | Alexander lesson, Alexander Technique, Power walk, Walking
Want to reinvent your walk? Step back. Literally take a step backward onto the toe of one foot or the other. Remain there a bit, letting the foot opposite your moving foot soften into the floor, making sure the knee is not locked. Wait. Remain on that back toe for...
by admin | Jun 9, 2015 | Alexander lesson, Alexander Technique, Mindfulness, Opposition, Uncategorized
Heading down to the lake, pushing, or being pulled by a wheelbarrow full of dirt and rock, I lean backwards, stiffening my spine and my neck. I note how my weight is on my heels and note too that I’m about to slide down the hill on my ass. What to do? Well, for...
by admin | Mar 12, 2015 | Alexander lesson, Alexander Technique, Gravity, Posture
The Alexander Technique really isn’t about posture. It’s about reorganizing your self up along those lines that the Earth claims you for the ground. It is, in a word, buoyancy, the equilibrium of up and down, equally with as against. Live in that...
by admin | Mar 2, 2015 | Alexander lesson, Alexander Technique, Hands, Piano, piano plaing, Self-disovery, Uncategorized
“You don’t know from bagels.” That’s what you might hear on the streets of New York, meaning, as you may have guessed, that you don’t know anything about bagels, or, that what you do know is all wrong. So, it’s in that spirit, and with tongue firmly in cheek, that I...
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...
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