by admin | Apr 23, 2020 | Alexander Technique, Awareness, Blog, Power walk, Self care, Technologies of the self, Walking
Power your walk. Lead with your lower dantian and let your eyes look toward your goal or an intermediate point. Let your eyes drift down to guide your step, but just the eyes, not your head ,as your back stays...
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 | Mar 5, 2020 | Alexander Technique, Attention, Awareness, Blog, Technologies of the self, Walking
Walking the great dog yesterday, I began to imagine that just under my sternum, I was pushing the handle of a pram, translation, perambulator, translation, baby carriage, in front of me, not with my hands, but with my torso. My back woke up. I felt an imagined...
by admin | Feb 26, 2020 | Mindfulness, Self care, Technologies of the self
How privileged, lucky, and/or blessed must you be to have monetary assets, a savings account of any amount, a home, an automobile. There is another tangible asset through which you apprehend all others. Is it appreciating? Are you fully invested? It is your minded...
by admin | Feb 21, 2020 | Alexander Technique, Alexander Technique Exercises, Blog, Technologies of the self
Technology digitalizes everything, conveys information in 1’s and 0’s. So does the technology of the self. It conveys its message in the digits of our hands and the spaces between. Its language is that of opening and of that most profound word...
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