Alexander Technique And Meditation

The Alexander Technique and meditation can be beautifully interwoven. Since the Alexander Technique is a ‘pre-technique’, using it before meditating can enhance your meditation practice. The Alexander Technique can help shorten the time it takes to get to the state or tone you want when you meditate, and help you stay in that place longer when you’re through. Most of us don’t necessarily practice meditation to become a better meditator; we meditate for the the effects it has on our lives.

Meditation teachers speak of the importance of ‘posture’ as you meditate. The Alexander Technique is invaluable here. You neither want to be collapsed as you meditate, nor do you want to be rigidly straight, adding unnecessary  tension.  If you apply the principles of the Alexander Technique, you can help rid your body/mind of excess tension.  You can be in a more meditative place even before you formally begin the meditation. It can help make the line between meditating and not meditating blurry. Your meditation practice is augmented because you’re living your life in a more calm, quiet, conscious, easeful way. It takes less time to arrive into the ‘meditative state’ because you’re already there, or close.

Here’s Jon Kabat-Zinn speaking of sitting meditation from his book ‘Coming To Our Senses”:

…It means taking your seat in and in relationship with the present moment. It means taking a stand in your life, sitting. That is why adopting and maintaining a posture that embodies dignity-whatever that means to you-is the essence of sitting meditation. The embodiment of dignity inwardly and outwardly immediately reflects and radiates the sovereignty of your life, that you are who and what you are-beyond all words, concepts, and descriptions, and beyond what anybody else thinks about you, or even what you think about you. It is a dignity without self-assertion-not driving forward toward anything, nor recoiling from anything -a balancing in sheer presence, a presencing.

To me, this is Meditation and the Alexander Technique, incredibly described.

Mark Josefsberg Alexander Technique NYC

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