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 | Jan 3, 2016 | Alexander Technique, Awareness, forgiveness, Meditation, Prayer
“Prayer,” according to Richard Rohr, “is a stance.” I was touched by his words and his definition and cannot let it go. You may find it for yourself on the Facebook Guild of Health page in a post by Rosie Press. Thank you Yvette Daoust for...
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 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 | Oct 30, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Awareness, Creating space, forgiveness, Meditation, Mindfulness, relatiionships, resentment, Self-disovery, Space between
You may not need to confront the world, lead with your forehead, front, in French. Relax. Let your neck smile and widen. Give up that infernal holding, your confrontation with the world.
by admin | May 11, 2015 | Alexander Technique, Choice, Creating space, Meditation
We go to church or Schul, to mosque, meeting house, or desert to enlarge our tents, to change our perspective, realign ourselves with principle, reset our thinking. We leave these places of spirit breathing more fully, smiling more readily, our thinking regrouped....
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