You've got no choice with the Alexander Technique Once you know some Alexander Technique, you're not going to want to make major decisions without it. And once you know enough of it you can't. For better or for worse, we decide by imagining what things will be like, or feel like, in the future–two minutes or [...]
Take a moment as you're reading this to stop, and look up with your eyes only. Then look straight ahead again. Do this a few times. You may notice that there is an ever-so-slight tensing of your neck, or the muscles in the back of your head as you move your eyes in their sockets. [...]
How are you supposed to read without collapsing forward? Doesn't the book draw you down into it? Is there a way to read without compressing your spine, or holding it rigidly upright? Here in NYC a lot of us spend a good deal of time on the subway. We all seem to be carrying bags, [...]
