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Tag Archives: Alexander Technique
What Is My Primary Mission In Life?
For most of the time since I was eight years old, I’ve felt like my primary mission in life was to write. I started blogging in 1997 and started weekly psycho-therapy in 1998. All of my therapists have seen vast … Continue reading
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Trying To Shut Down Alexander Technique Historian Jeroen Staring
A few months ago, I did this interview with Jeroen Staring ([email protected]) via email: How has the Alexander community reacted to your work? Is there a certain type of mind that reacts with interest to your work and another type … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Technique, dutch book, f m alexander, f matthias alexander, jean fischer, new statesman
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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
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Tagged Alexander Technique, natural curves, orthodox judaism, rabbi shimon, reb moshe, reb shlomo
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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
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Popular Solutions To Postural Problems
The best thing you can do for your posture is to be happy. Happy people tend to be buoyant aka “capable of floating”. Buoyant means full of air and full of life. Upward in orientation. Depressed people tend to collapse. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Technique, bad posture, body tension, kinaesthesia, postural problems, swing coach
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How The Alexander Technique Can Help To Release Wrinkles
When you tense your face, you make wrinkles. Your brow gets all furrowed and the skin around your eyes and lips becomes tight and scarecrowy. By contrast, when you release unnecessary tension and let go of postures of your face, … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander teacher, alexander teachers, Alexander Technique, brow, force of gravity, Hillary Clinton, postures, releasing the tension, tufts university, unnecessary tension, wrinkles
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Physical Therapy Vs Alexander Technique
I’ve become much more active over the past three years. Rising cholesterol and blood sugar levels convinced me I had to get more exercise. So I’ve been taking yoga and riding my white steed across the internet, doing battle with … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Technique, blood sugar levels, damsels in distress, dark knights, lyn paul, white steed
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Here Are Some Exercises You Can Do At Home To Learn Alexander Technique
Most Alexander teachers hate the question, “So can you give me some exercises to do at home to get good Alexander Technique?” Alexander isn’t so much a set of things that you do as a letting go of needless postures. … Continue reading
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Should You Sit Up Straight?
I was talking to a group of psycho-therapists the other day. I said every emotion requires a particular alignment of the body. Lose that alignment and you’ll lose the emotion. For instance, when you take up your full space in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Technique, bad posture, body tension, kinaesthesia, muscle tension, visual person
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