A few years ago I was on a podcast as the guest of someone I admire very much and have followed for years, Joanne Avison. It was a wonderful, wide-ranging conversation, check it out! The Sound of Music and the … Continue reading →
Article sent by a savvy student: Walking backwards has a surprising number of health benefits. Oh yes, I heartily agree! And the article doesn’t even talk about certain Alexandrian aspects! Another of my savvy students found walking backwards especially revelatory. She … Continue reading →
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 →