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 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 | Apr 27, 2018 | Attention, Awareness, Balance, Posture, relatiionships, Standing
Giannis Antetokounmpo has staggering skills. A baskeball player from Greece, he plays now for Minneapolis and he is gaining in skills every day, and at 6’11’, in height as well, or so he thinks. When asked how many steps in would take him to get from foul...
by admin | Apr 20, 2018 | 100 hints on singing, Acting, Alexander Technique, Attention, Awareness, breathing, Cloud, Means not ends, Meeting, Mindfulness, Music, Singing, voice
100 days. 100 hints on singing. No. 46. Those moments when you walk on stage to a dais or a mike, or a lone piano are portentous. You don’t need to be alone in them. You can walk embraced in the love and memory of all those who wish or have wished you well,...
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 | Nov 29, 2017 | Aging, Alexander Technique, Attention, Awareness, Posture
Here are two stories of #aging. The first of a good friend, who, catching a glimpse of herself in a mirror, pronounced herself “concave.” She was, in my words, not hers, pulled inwardly centripetally, toward her solar plexus, that sun of our selves that...
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