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 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 | Sep 30, 2014 | Meeting
We are all closeted, having spaces within us that are closed. They, we, long to be touched, to flow into the whole. We want to open. Psycho-therapy can facilitate that for some, working back to the time when we first shut the closet door, or Alexander, with its touch,...
by admin | Aug 28, 2014 | Meeting
Gravitas, gravity acting through us. We know it when we see it and we all desire it. We want our speech, our gesture, our actions to have import, substance, all that which stands beneath and underlies us. Tension in our joints causes gravity to act differently on each...
by admin | Aug 25, 2014 | Meeting
Waiting for spontaneity: According to Vic Braden, The Inner Game of Tennis, “when our motive is the result, winning or losing, the brain reverts and recruits the muscles that it has used in the past.” I love the word “recruits” as he uses it...
by admin | Jul 27, 2014 | Meeting
The greater part of genius is asking the right questions. Albert Einstein asked as a youth: What if I could ride a beam of light, and his answer reordered the universe. Asking the right questions is the genius of Alexander Technique. To accrued tension it asks, what...
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