October 2023
Alan Bowers and Mark Josefsberg. Random
Core and spark. Neck loose, head moving up—Slowly hinge back in the chair using your hip joints as hinges. Think that your legs are moving away from your torso from your hip joints. The further you [...]
December 2018
An inept fisherman takes the bait
Alexander Technique applied to habitual thinking.
November 2018
Bookend gaining
Speed-Living What’s the rush? There’s nothing wrong with speed-reading, or speed-walking, or speed-dating for that matter, (where you meet someone for breakfast and break up at brunch.) But everything is getting kind of speedy, so [...]
August 2017
My Alexander Technique Book
I want to write a book on the Alexander Technique, but I don't even know how to start. I could start with what I’ve already written, print it out, and organize it in neat piles [...]
The Alexander Technique–Embraceable You
Tension While thinking about a future event that may or may not happen, I noticed I was physically bracing. My habit, (along with my unhealthy obsession with porcelain poodles), involves some tightening in my jaw, my [...]
October 2016
Alexander Technique Awareness
The Alexander Technique has three main pillars: Awareness, Inhibition, and Direction (AID) Inhibition. Leave a gap-don't react. Listen for the space between the notes. Direction. Alexander Technique directions are unique instructions guiding you towards what [...]