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 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...
by admin | Mar 15, 2020 | Alexander Technique, Blog, Breath, Mindfulness
If your goal is to open, to live centrifugally rather than centripetally, you can do that only insomuch as you welcome all the data of your environment, your room, the individuals in it, the yards, lakes, seas, and stars beyond. Breathe it all in and let your ankles,...
by admin | Mar 5, 2020 | Alexander Technique, Attention, Awareness, Blog, Technologies of the self, Walking
Walking the great dog yesterday, I began to imagine that just under my sternum, I was pushing the handle of a pram, translation, perambulator, translation, baby carriage, in front of me, not with my hands, but with my torso. My back woke up. I felt an imagined...
by admin | Mar 4, 2020 | Alexander Technique, Awareness, Blog, Posture
Posture is the body’s real time adaptation to its environment, both mental and physical.So understood, posture is the metier of Alexander Technique. Your posture is telling your story in real time. The Alexander Technique insists: You have the authority to...
by admin | Feb 21, 2020 | Alexander Technique, Alexander Technique Exercises, Blog, Technologies of the self
Technology digitalizes everything, conveys information in 1’s and 0’s. So does the technology of the self. It conveys its message in the digits of our hands and the spaces between. Its language is that of opening and of that most profound word...
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