Alexander Technique Exercises Don't just do something, sit there. Alexander Technique exercises are almost anti-exercises, because Alexander Technique exercises reduce tension, rather than increase it. Reducing extra muscular effort is the exercise. For instance, notice any tension in your neck. Let it go. Release the excess neck tension again, and your head will rotate forward, and come up. [...]
Relax, but don't make a habit out of it. Make a habit out of relaxing with direction--- and often the direction is up, though... Sometimes parts of you will be going down, or out, left, right, or a w a y; Towards the window, the wall, the floor, the ceiling, or the sky. Sometimes combined. [...]
Our habits are like rubber bands, exerting a constant pull. The deeper the habit, the stronger the pull...
and neither is mine. And, your posture isn't perfect; neither is mine. F.M. Alexander, the originator of the Alexander Technique, didn't "have" perfect posture, or a free neck. We don't "have" a free neck, like we "own" a free neck. If anything, we rent or lease a free neck, with no option to buy. And, [...]
