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 | Nov 11, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Art, gardening, Means not ends
I’m not a master gardener. There have been too many catastrophes this season (don’t mention the squash) to even aspire to mastery. Yet I’ve created some gardens that are productive and I dare say beautiful. And never with a plan in mind. I dig the...
by admin | Oct 21, 2014 | Alexander Technique, Art, Ballet, Gesture, Presence
Ballerina Wendy Whelan is saying goodbye to the stage. In a New York Times article (October 19) columnist Alistair Macaulay says that “to watch her is to watch a mind in motion.” How wonderful must that be to live and move as embodied mind. For Ms. Whelan...
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