Monthly Archives: March 2012

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Alexander Technique And Laptops

If desktops go on your desk, then laptops must go on your lap, though desktops on your desk are favorable to a laptop on your lap. While using the Alexander Technique helps greatly, having a computer on your lap puts you in a very challenging position. Your eyes are way up there but the screen...

Alexander Technique Computer Break

...People unfamiliar with an Alexander Technique computer break may take their hands off the computer keyboard, shake them, roll their head around, stretch, only to begin again where they left off. To get out of their computer slump they sit up as straight as possible. When that gets too tiring, which may take a few seconds or a few minutes, they'll go back to their habitual collapse. On and on, slumping, sitting up straight, then slumping again. And slumping wins...

Alexander Technique—The Missing Link

Alexander Technique-The Missing Link Although best known for improving posture and diminishing back pain and neck tension, the Alexander Technique involves changing one's habitual responses. Mind and body are inseparable, and our responses have mental and physical components. The Alexander Technique entry point is primarily on the body side. When we speak about [...]

Best Way To Improve Posture

There is really only one way to improve posture, and I can say it in one word: The Alexander Technique. Ok, that’s three words, but one idea. Most people think they know how to improve posture, but it is not the best way to improve posture, nor is it a permanent way to improve posture. Here’s what most of us know about improving posture: ‘stand up straight!’ ‘Sit up straight!’ We’ve all heard things like ‘suck your stomach in, push your chest out, put your shoulders back, stick your chin back’ etc. This is not the way to improve posture. This is a way to have military posture...

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