by admin | Mar 4, 2020 | Alexander Technique, Awareness, Blog, Posture
Posture is the body’s real time adaptation to its environment, both mental and physical.So understood, posture is the metier of Alexander Technique. Your posture is telling your story in real time. The Alexander Technique insists: You have the authority to...
by admin | Apr 27, 2018 | Attention, Awareness, Balance, Posture, relatiionships, Standing
Giannis Antetokounmpo has staggering skills. A baskeball player from Greece, he plays now for Minneapolis and he is gaining in skills every day, and at 6’11’, in height as well, or so he thinks. When asked how many steps in would take him to get from foul...
by admin | Nov 29, 2017 | Aging, Alexander Technique, Attention, Awareness, Posture
Here are two stories of #aging. The first of a good friend, who, catching a glimpse of herself in a mirror, pronounced herself “concave.” She was, in my words, not hers, pulled inwardly centripetally, toward her solar plexus, that sun of our selves that...
by admin | Nov 24, 2017 | Alexander Technique, neck pain, Posture, Presence, Self-disovery, stiff neck, Uncategorized
Sometimes #neckpain is pathological, a deterioration of the discs that separate the vertebrae. More often it is not, and if so, it is worthwhile to take a look at your posture, the way you hold yourself…telling turn of words. First, the torso via its connection...
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 6, 2015 | Alexander Technique, neck pain, Posture, stiff neck
It’s not just a neck, it’s your throat! The throat is the organ of deglutition. It’s a secondary or primary sex organ. It’s involved in parturition. A woman deprived of her vocal folds may not be able to have a vaginal delivery. The throat is...
Recent Comments