Looking Up With The Alexander Technique Do you ever notice what you're looking at when you're walking? You might notice that your gaze is down, perhaps five or six feet in front of you. Note your thought patterns when you are looking down at this steep angle. Maybe you'll notice that you’re worrying about something, [...]
By Jane Brody It would come as no surprise to teachers of the Alexander technique, a method of adjusting body postures to relieve damaging stresses, to hear that my neck is plagued by perpetual tension, occasional pain and even crippling spasms. Alexander teachers say the demands of modern life have fostered a virtual epidemic of [...]
As I was riding the subway on my way to teach some Alexander Technique lessons, an announcement was made over the PA system: Gr Grbrwr Kr gaggar. Sometimes that’s what announcements sound like in the NYC subway system, but only when you need to hear them. When this announcement was repeated though, I heard “because of [...]
