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Tag Archives: body tension
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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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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This Week’s Torah Portion – Parashat Terumah (Exodus 25:1-27:19)
I discuss the weekly Torah portion with Rabbi Rabbs Mondays at 7:00 pm PST on the rabbi’s cam and on YouTube. Facebook Fan Page. This week we study Parashat Terumah (Exodus 25:1-27:19). Watch the video. * Here’s the page of Talmud … Continue reading
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What Does Concentration Look Like?
Most people think they need to tense to concentrate. You can look at them and see the furrows on their brow and the tightness around their eyes and the hunching of their shoulders and you think they’re trying really hard. … Continue reading
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Letting Go Of Resentment
I went to a meeting the other day, arriving five minutes early. On the door was a notice that the building was closed for maintenance for the next two days. The door was locked. I left. Arriving home, I sent … Continue reading
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‘Constructive Awareness: Alexander Technique and the Spiritual Quest’
I picked up this book and I did not expect much. On the back cover, it reads: “Daniel McGowan has personally introduced more than 7,000 people in the U.S. and Europe to Alexander Technique since 1983.” That kind of talk … Continue reading
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