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 | Nov 27, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Breath, breathing
What would I wish upon my worst enemy were he or she a public speaker or a singer? A long, deep breath before every phrase. Every in-breath creates inspiratory tension. The long, deep breath creates more than most. It’s not what we’re built to do. The diaphragm...
by admin | Nov 2, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Breath, breathing, Creating space, Gesture, Meditation, Mindfulness, Presence, Singing
A self-blessing. Place the palm of one hand, fingers pointing inward, lying easily and slightly cupped on the xiphoid process just under your sternum. Then turn your hand gently upward. Give yourself a little lift, fingers and hand staying in place. You’ll breathe...
by admin | Jan 16, 2015 | Alexander lesson, Alexander Technique, breathing, Meditation, Presence, Self-disovery, Walking
I used to imagine my body as a façade, a two-dimensional picture of my self that I projected forward in space. I was equally self-important as self-deluded. Now, after 10 years of earnest study of the Alexander Technique, I imagine my body as a façade, a...
by admin | Jan 15, 2015 | Alexander lesson, breathing, Posture, Self-disovery, Standing
Rx, a prescription, from the Latin, recipere, take thou. Here’s my prescription for today. It’s as simple as it is transforming. Rx. Stand with your back toward a wall, heels, say, 4-6 inches from the wall’s surface, completely independent of it,...
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...
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