Article Archive for January 2009
Alexander Technique Balance and Poise
The Alexander Technique and balance are related on multiple levels.
On February 17th, 2008 I was hiking in the woods in upstate New York. There was snow on the ground, the trees …
Give Me My Props
Although the Alexander Technique is concerned with the use of the self, (the title of one of F.M. Alexander’s books) if there are props around why not use them? If you need a …
When a company hires ergonomic specialists, they will come into your workplace and make some observations. They will determine whether the furniture is ergonomically sound, and set up properly.
For example, they may say that the …
Things Are Looking Up
Do you ever notice what you look at when you’re walking outdoors? …
For quite a while now we’ve been spending less time writing and more time at the computer. Writing, however, provides us another opportunity to become aware of our habits. Since most of our writing is …
One of the most painful positions for a person with low back pain is to be seated. We all tend to slump; putting ourselves in a ‘C curve’. Often times when we’re not slumping we’re sitting up rigidly straight with the idea of ‘good posture’. Neither of these positions…
Sometimes when we go we go these people we are put in weird positions, and I’m not talking about having to foot the bill.
Which reminds me of one more: Podiatrists. The weird position I’m talking …
It would come as no surprise to teachers of the Alexander technique, a method of adjusting body postures to relieve damaging stresses, to hear that my neck is plagued by perpetual tension, occasional pain and …
Long-Term Relief for Lower-Back Pain
By Maureen Williams, ND
Healthnotes Newswire (March 12, 2009)—Few treatment options provide long-term relief to people suffering from back pain, one of the most common causes of disability in modern societies. Fortunately, …
As I was riding the subway on my way to teach some Alexander Technique lessons, an announcement was made over the PA system: Gr Grbrwr Kr gaggar. Sometimes that’s what announcements sound like in the …
