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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That’s End-Gaining!

In some ways, Alexander Technique seems cultish. The way some Alexandroids talk about F.M. Alexander, for example, is indistinguishable from the way Scientologists talk about L. Ron Hubbard. There’s a lot of closed-loop thinking in the Alexander world where the … Continue reading

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