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Category Archives: Alexander Technique
Reb Moshe Sat Up Straight
When I mention the Alexander Technique to people, they often stiffen and push themselves up in a rigid way. “Is this good Alexander Technique?” they often ask. No, it is not. You’d be better off with your habitual slump, I … Continue reading
What’s The Training Difference Between An Alexander Teacher And A Yoga Teacher?
A typical yoga teacher has taken a course of about 200 hours, often done in 12-hour stretches on weekends. An Alexander Technique teacher trains for three hours a day, five days a week, 36 weeks a year, for three years … Continue reading
The Tension Patterns Of Chairman Mao
Mao Zedong was the biggest murderer in history. He killed about 75 million of his own people. Mao did not move with elegance and ease and his Little Red Book contains no exhortations to free the neck so the head … Continue reading
Triumph of the Will
On Mondays, I like to watch Triumph of the Will, a 1935 Nazi propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl. In his closing speech, Adolf Hitler starts out with good use. His head floats up and his face is clear of tension. … Continue reading
Enter The Ninja (Dirty Version)
A year ago, Andrew Breitbart sent me a link to this video and said it was the most perverse thing he’d ever seen. Notice the excessive facial tension of Die Antwoord‘s lead member Ninja (Watkin Tudor Jones): Do you think … Continue reading
Checking Out Youtube’s Top Yoga Videos
Yoga classes frequently presuppose a level of flexibility that most people simply do not have. There’s no way the average bloke will be able to keep up with the following: This next video is from Yoga Journal: Elena Brower says: … Continue reading
Analyzing Weight Loss Yoga for Beginners
Follow this video and you’re likely to injure yourself! Yogi Tara Styles says: “This is a routine great for beginners… So go ahead and sit up on your heels.” It was this very sitting on my heels during my first … Continue reading
Will Exercises Improve Your Posture?
According to fitness coach Belle Badell, “the idea of the chest pop is to squeeze the back muscles and then squeezing the upper abs. …Press the back muscles in and downwards. Press and release. If you ever wonder how Shakira … Continue reading
Live In Response, Not In Reaction
My Alexander Technique students usually want out of their pain as fast as possible. If they have a sore neck or tight shoulders of a gimpy knee, they want a fix pronto. But these pains are only symptoms for what … Continue reading
Silent 1930s Film Of F. Matthias Alexander, developer of the Alexander Technique
F. Matthias Alexander shown with some of the students on his first Alexander Technique training course in the early 1930s.