As babies, initially we can only clench and open our little hands, but the nervous system soon learns to differentiate and perhaps within a few years…. My tai chi teacher says, ‘yards, feet, inches’… With patient practice we move from … Continue reading →
YAWNNNNNNN…. I watch my kitties stretch sinuously, luxuriously, whenever they get up from a nap, before they pad off about their business. It looks like a whole body yawn. We see animals do it all the time. It’s an organic wave … Continue reading →
I’m getting this vague sense that I’m pressing down on myself… There’s a splendid opportunity here! I have a chance to get much MUCH more clear on What I Don’t Want, by exaggerating my tendency and perhaps receiving a burst … Continue reading →
I’m a big fan of Eckhart Tolle’s “The Power of Now“. It’s transformative. I’m also a fan of the “Power of No”, in the Alexander sense. Or as FM Alexander coined it, “conscious inhibition”. (He was pre-Freud, so not a particle of emotional … Continue reading →
This blog from 2017 was inspired by two of my excellent colleagues: Jeanne Barrett in Seattle has written movingly about her long recovery journey following a severe knee injury. Brooke Lieb wrote about using the Alexander Technique to recover from … Continue reading →
One of my favorite Alexander missions is to ‘fill out my back’. So what does that mean? We have a strong tendency to inhabit our front half more than our back half… which is pretty understandable since our world is … Continue reading →
The international Alexander teaching community is very excited about this new animation! Click on the link: How does the Alexander Technique work? Towards a scientific model. For the first time, drawing on direct studies of the Alexander Technique and other … Continue reading →
An insider joke in my house comes from an old New Yorker cartoon, in which a man has just arrived home from work and is fumbling with his overcoat. Clearly aggrieved, he says to his wife, “What a day! First, … Continue reading →
We’ve had fun in our AT Spark Zoom classes lately applying AT skills to mask wearing! None of us can avoid having to don ’em these days, so why not embrace the task as the splendid opportunity it is? We … Continue reading →
The older I get, the more it’s true: Alexander awareness is amazingly helpful when we’re young. It’s absolutely essential as we move into the challenges of aging. Apropos of which, here’s a great new article which features several of my … Continue reading →