{"id":42931,"date":"2012-04-06T09:04:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T17:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=42931"},"modified":"2012-04-06T09:21:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T17:21:30","slug":"42931","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=42931","title":{"rendered":"Let Your Head Go Forward And Up, Dear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Alexander Technique teacher Galen Cranz <A HREF=\"http:\/\/bodylearning.buzzsprout.com\/382\/45289-what-is-the-head-of-head-forward-and-up\">talks<\/a> with Robert Rickover about our heads and why there are considerably more complex than most of us tend to assume, and why it&#8217;s important to understand these complexities. Galen is also a Professor of Architecture at the University of California and the author of <em><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Chair-Rethinking-Culture-Design\/dp\/0393319555\">The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body and Design<\/a><\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Galen: &#8220;I noticed that most of the English teachers said, &#8216;Let your head go forward and up, dear.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then I got introduced to ideas in <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.originalosteopathy.com\/osteopathy\/index.html\">cranial-osteopathy<\/a> and that the bones in the head move. You can float them apart on the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dura_mater\">dura<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I began to think about taking the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Occipital_bone\">occipital bone<\/a> back and up and let the frontal bone release forward and up. If you allow the opposition between these bones, uprightness is a byproduct.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cerebrospinal_fluid\">Cerebral spinal fluid<\/a> doesn&#8217;t have a heart to pump it. It has to rely on the movement of flexion and extension.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robert: &#8220;When I was training, I don&#8217;t remember anyone saying anything other than &#8216;the head&#8217;, as though it was a solid unit. There wasn&#8217;t much of an idea about any internal movements within the head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone who has cranial-sacral work knows that there&#8217;s movement because you can sense it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Alexander Technique teacher Galen Cranz talks with Robert Rickover about our heads and why there are considerably more complex than most of us tend to assume, and why it&#8217;s important to understand these complexities. Galen is also a Professor of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=42931\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexander-technique"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42943,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42931\/revisions\/42943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}