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 19, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Awareness, Creating space, Means not ends, Mindfulness, Posture, Presence
The posture of power is not arming your self; it is disarming your self, and thereby, others. You neither have to adopt it nor put it on. The posture of power is receptivity, your back widening, your torso opening all around. Open pathways will be filled by your...
by admin | Nov 11, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Art, gardening, Means not ends
I’m not a master gardener. There have been too many catastrophes this season (don’t mention the squash) to even aspire to mastery. Yet I’ve created some gardens that are productive and I dare say beautiful. And never with a plan in mind. I dig the...
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 9, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Baseball, Lovemaking, Means not ends, Pitching, Singing, Uncategorized
Ready. Don’t aim. Fire. That’s the title of today’s blog. It might be the most widely read of my newsletters thus far. We’re moving into the bedroom. But wait, first some action in the infield. Dwight Gooden, the ace pitcher for the New York Mets, had won several...
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