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 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
I am reading an old volume, Tradition and Gigli, by E. Herbert Caesari, author too, of Voice of the Mind. In Tradition he advocates time and again the sense of up and back as the singer goes over the passaggio, that is, through the upper middle notes and into the high...
by admin | Aug 1, 2017 | Alexander Technique, Attention, Awareness, Ballet, Choice, Creating space, Mindfulness, Uncategorized
Your torso wants to colonize your limbs, to pull them in and hold them close. To allow that without informed dissent is to live centripetally, in a destructive form of self-containment, a false security. You can choose to live more centrifugally, the limbs and head...
by admin | Dec 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Hey boys and girls. Build a metaphor. BAM! Involve the kids. Here’s the raw material: In a recent organic gardening class, the teacher was asked what one does if a garden is wanted and all there is lawn. Answer: Buy a pick, she says, a big ole collins axe and...
by admin | Dec 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
I am taking chunks of sod out of a wheelbarrow. They are all sizes, small, large, and everything in between. I’m placing them in a large bare space in our lawn and I’ve just dug them up out of the garden where I’m preparing a new bed. I reach in the...
by admin | Nov 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
My wife Susan and I, like so many of you, have or had a beloved cat. Ours was a certain Casey. When Casey came to the end of her life—all her systems were shutting down—I held her in my arms as a Vet administered a life-ending drug. At the moment of her passing, her...
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