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 5, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Breath, Creating space, Gesture, Hands, Meditation, Meeting, Mindfulness, Presence, relatiionships, Self-disovery, touch
Today, create an opportunity to reach out, to touch someone. Reach out, touch, and let your hand remain. And still remain. Notice how both toucher and touched are changed. Do an inventory of your self: shoulder, elbow, wrist, ankles, and hips; and continue to melt...
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 | Mar 2, 2015 | Alexander lesson, Alexander Technique, Hands, Piano, piano plaing, Self-disovery, Uncategorized
“You don’t know from bagels.” That’s what you might hear on the streets of New York, meaning, as you may have guessed, that you don’t know anything about bagels, or, that what you do know is all wrong. So, it’s in that spirit, and with tongue firmly in cheek, that I...
by admin | Jan 19, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Hands, touch
What if there were a healing art, an art of which the French, Italians, Spanish, and Brazilians, were masters, one that is largely ignored in the States. What if the practice of this art promoted flow of the secretions, broke barriers, and healed old wounds? What is...
by admin | Jan 13, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Hands, Posture, Presence, Self-disovery, Workplace safety
The Alexander Technique at your desk. Oh, aren’t we sucked in toward the computer screen and toward any of those tasks in front of us? Take a minute, borrow it from your work and reinvest it later. Place one hand flat on the desk in front of you, or on you leg if...
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