Back Pain Relief
Sitting can be a painful position for someone with low back pain because of the added spinal pressure, and compression. We tend to slump; putting ourselves in a ‘C curve’. Sometimes, in order not to slump, we sit up rigidly straight with what we think of as ‘good posture.’...
Alexander Technique Exercises
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. [...]
Get Uncomfortable with the Alexander Technique.
The Alexander Technique can make you uncomfortable. Last week I started to write a post about how change, even change for the better, can feel uncomfortable. The post kind of stalled [...]
Alexander Technique Relaxation
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 [...]
Alexander Technique and Rubber Bands
Our habits are like rubber bands, exerting a constant pull. The deeper the habit, the stronger the pull...
Your neck isn’t free
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 [...]