Breaking Bad and the Alexander Technique
Breaking Back And Down. Back and down refers to the direction of your head as your neck pokes forward, perhaps towards a computer screen, tablet, or cell. (Perhaps now?) [...]
Top 5 Alexander Technique Benefits
1. Improved posture. Your posture affects how you feel, how you perceive people, and how people perceive you. Posture is a loaded word, however. It [...]
Top 15 Alexander Technique Problems
It's not all good. Not all changes brought about by the Alexander Technique are good. There are some seldom-talked-about negative outcomes. In the interest of truthiness, I've listed a [...]
Alexander Technique—What’s up?
Alexander Technique releases your emergency brake---by releasing your emergency neck. We tighten our neck when there's an emergency, and some of us live in a constant state of emergency. Our [...]
The Alexander Technique- Texting and Teeth Brushing
Early on in Alexander Technique lessons it comes as a shock to people when they realize that the simple acts of texting, typing, brushing (or putting on make-up, shaving, combing hair, putting on glasses, eating, and on and on), compresses the spine. Spinal compression for these everyday actions is both unnecessary and damaging. Then why do we do it? For a combination of reasons including imitation, laziness, boredom, or fatigue. This may result from being unmindful, inattentive, unobservant and unaware. With repetition, it becomes a habit. It becomes how we do everthing; We start any motion with spinal compression...
Alexander Technique Art Class
The Alexander Technique worked great for kids in an after-school art class today. The teacher gave his students an assignment. They were to draw him, in a full-length portrait. He [...]
