Alexander Technique And Bike Riding
Alexander Technique in New York City is a challenge. Applying the Alexander Technique to bike riding in New York City is a bigger challenge! For my first bike (bicycle) ride I chose to be near NYC. This was my first ride in quite a few years. It's funny how once you've learned this skill, it stays with you forever. It's kind of like riding a bike...anyway it was great to be riding again; supplying my own power, the wind rustling through where my hair used to be...
Alexander Technique NYC
It's hard to know how fast and crazy everything around a large city can be, until you leave it. I think it's comparable to people at the beginning of Alexander Technique lessons not realizing how much they're tensing themselves, until they release that tension... It also made me realize that I want to take some of that calm energy back with me as I teach my Alexander Technique lessons in NYC.
Alexander Technique And Force of Habit
Force of habit is an interesting expression, and for some reason I've been hearing it a lot lately. The 'habit' part is something Alexander Technique teachers deal with every day. One of the 5000 descriptions of the Alexander Technique is that it helps you break unwanted habits. The 'force' part makes it seem like we're powerless to resist; or that we have to resist at all... With the Alexander Technique we form new and more beneficial habits while sitting at the computer, standing, walking, bending... Pretty soon these new ways become second nature to us...
Alexander Technique Method-Think Outside The Box
...Alexander Technique is something new to learn, and Alexander Technique lessons help you do your morning routine or any other routine in an un-routine way. Alexander Technique teachers... if you have back pain or you have bad posture, take some Alexander Technique lessons. One day it might help you remember...
Computer Posture
What are you doing right now as you’re sitting and reading this? I'll assume you’re sitting and reading right now. If you are sitting, where is your face? I mean, is it poking towards the computer screen? A clearer way to think about this is that you're poking your neck towards the screen; your face is going along for the ride. We tend to poke our necks forward and down; compressing. The muscles in our necks are working harder than necessary. It would be better...
Alexander Technique Computer Posture
One area people ask me about most concerns computer posture. We tend to collapse down in front, poking our necks, faces and upper chest towards the screen. Sound familiar? Feel familiar? How about right now?... What we want is for our necks to be free of excess tension, so that our head can move up. Tension shortens our neck, bringing the head back and down. We want the head to move forward (rotationally) and up. A simple way to achieve this forward rotation is to slightly, slowly lower your nose, while the crown of your head moves up. At the same time...
Alexander Technique Books
Here are a few of my favorite Alexander Technique related books, in no particular order:
Alexander Technique Posture Exercises
Is the Alexander Technique a 'series of posture exercises?' Yes! And no. What might be implied with the word 'series' is that there are exercises one does in a certain order, and they're the same for everybody... however, exercise doesn't always mean working out or lifting weights...One of the big difference between many of these Alexander Tech posture exercises and what we might usually think of as exercise is that that you don't have to spend any extra time 'doing' the Alexander Technique. You incorporate...
Learning the Alexander Technique Oppositions
A useful component in learning the Alexander Technique is the idea of oppositions. A few Alexander Technique oppositions include: head and torso opposing each other, arms and torso, legs and torso, sit bones down; torso and head up, shoulders opposing each other and more... We probably aren't going to learn the Alexander Technique purely through observation but being aware combined with lessons...
Oprah and Alexander Technique
Oprah Story Sparks Interest in Alexander Technique for Back Pain Relief This article appeared in Oprah Magazine. It's a nagging health problem that affects nearly every adult in Western society at least once in his [...]