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Tag Archives: Alexander Technique
Life Is Brand New!
I left my home of over 14 years Sunday. It was shattering. I felt sad and helpless. I felt tired and sweaty. My back hurt. I had great trepidation about the future. I drove a few blocks to crash in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Technique, funny email, hovel, looking at the sky, thinking about my life, yom kippur
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Friendly Luke
People relate to me without the beard. It makes me appear more friendly, more accessible. Women dig it. A guy said to me in shul over Rosh Hashanah that I have the friendliest face. Frankly, I haven’t been particularly friendly … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Technique, ford center, honorable profession, hovel, rosh hashanah, shul
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My New-Found Sexual Sobriety
Helpful emails: Dear Luke, First of all, congratulations on your sexual sobriety. If you are going to make these sex addiction seminars a regular gig why not capitalize on the audience with some merchandise? No, not another boring book. I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Technique, libidos, sex addiction, sexual sobriety, sexy talk, venereal diseases
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My New Look! Clean-Shaven For First Time Since 2008
I shaved this morning for the first time since January 2008! All for a bribe from family to finish my Alexander Technique schooling! Gavin Brown emails: “Pretty much like the old one, mate: A whingeing adult man sponging off his … Continue reading
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Tagged adult man, Alexander Technique, fair dinkum, gavin brown, huge market, pansies
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What Does A Free Neck Mean?
A foundation of Alexander Technique is freeing the neck of unnecessary tension. There are more joints in the neck than anywhere in the body. A joint means a bone connected to a bone. With all the joints in the neck, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Technique, fundamental instructions, muscular effort, physical effort, stiff neck, unnecessary tension
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Alexander Technique Helped Me Get Off My Meds
I don’t think Alexander Technique has anything to say about medication. It’s a way of learning to move the way the body likes to move. Still, it has profound effects on your whole being. Here’s my story on how the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Technique, anxiety panic disorder, benzodiazepine drug, bipolar patients, chemical salts, treatment of depression
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Fred Astaire Embodied Alexander Technique
Alexander teacher Robert Rickover says: “Many times with new students, I suggest that if they want to see examples of the kind of use that Alexander Technique promotes, to take a look at someone like Fred Astaire. While he did … Continue reading
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How Is Alexander Technique Different From Feldenkrais, Physical Therapy, Tai Chi, Yoga?
Ari Gil has been teaching Alexander Technique for 30 years. Ari tells Robert Rickover: “Let me give the example of a runner who’s calling me because of a knee problem. He’s tried physical therapy. He’s done some acupuncture. He tried … Continue reading
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Who Was F.M. Alexander?
A student of Alexander Technique writes: “…I’m left with the impression of Alexander as someone who’s so afraid? Afraid of attachment, afraid of people stealing his ideas (because without them, what would he be?), afraid of being wrong, afraid of … Continue reading
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