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 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 | 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,...
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