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?) Once that neck poking becomes [...]
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 can imply phony posturing, forced [...]
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 few. 1. If [...]
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 collapse starts from our neck [...]
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 gave them ten minutes, and [...]
Will the Alexander Technique Fix my Posture, or just expand my consciousness?
The Alexander Technique is transformative. The Alexander Technique improves your posture and, in the process, transforms you. It changes your well-worn-form from the outside in and the inside out. The Alexander Technique is not about [...]
Alexander Technique and Exercise
Exercise: Something that is done or practiced to develop a particular skill. Exercising, or working out is great for you, especially if you employ the Alexander Technique while exercising. I love to see the gym, [...]
F.M. Alexander, Lennie Tristano, and Freedom
F.M. Alexander and Lennie Tristano F.M Alexander was born in 1869, and Lennie Tristano was born in 1919. F.M. was born in Tasmania, and Lennie in Chicago. Lennie Tristano created in the field of jazz, [...]
Fear-less with Alexander Technique
Fear. For many, fear is the worst. We're adverse to anger, sadness sucks, depression is disagreeable, and boredom is a burden, but fear is high on the list, or low on the list, of [...]