by admin | Dec 11, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Awareness, Back pain, ballistic movement, Mindfulness, Swing
Here it is, and back by popular demand, my collins axe. Only one truly ignorant of the work involved would pick one up. There is a trick involved in using it, one that makes our work a lot easier. It is, rather than swinging the monstrous thing, to LET it swing....
by admin | Nov 4, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Awareness, Back pain, Creating space, Hands, Means not ends, Posture, Presence
Put this under the category of strange, or if you agree, strangely wonderful. You may know we’ve got eagles here, yes, eagles, and here’s a picture, although from a distance. Put that tree right above you, it’s trunk in you, raise one hand or both...
by admin | Dec 22, 2014 | Alexander Technique, Back pain, Posture
I am looking at a photograph, a street scene of turn-of-the-previous-century San Francisco. Men and women are crossing the street, walking on the sidewalk, some carrying lumber, some of them parcels. There is horizontal motion and there is the vertical element to...
by admin | Dec 11, 2014 | Alexander Technique, Back pain, breathing, resentment
Resentment, from the Latin re, again, and sentire, to feel, is to feel something again, to revisit the negative landmarks of our past. If the lesson of this age is that we are minded body and embodied mind, resentment must be felt throughout our entire systems, in...
by admin | Dec 1, 2014 | Alexander Technique, Back pain, breathing, piano plaing, Posture, stiff neck
Exactitude in human affairs, in art, and in human effort is hard to come by. If fact I don’t even think it’s desirable. Do you? Many of us just enjoyed a great celebratory meal. Did we clean our plates? If so, did we take in the exact number of heat units to fuel our...
by admin | Oct 8, 2014 | Alexander lesson, Alexander Technique, Back pain
Me, I’d always felt gangly, too tall, and disjointed. I left my first Alexander lesson all put together, feeling like a little tractor connected to the earth and chugging right along. It was wonderful. That may not be your experience. Okay, it definitely will not be...
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