Why blog about the Alexander Technique?
One reason to blog about the Alexander Technique is to learn about the Alexander Technique. Writing about the AT helps crystalize your thoughts, concepts, theories, and ideas. It encourages you to examine prejudices, jargon, habits of thought or word, or any other ideas that may, over time, have become fixed.
Blogging helps you distinguish between your own thoughts, former teachers’ thoughts, fellow colleagues’ ideas, F.M. Alexander’s directives and more. Alexander Technique books, articles, videos, posts, blogs, your Alexander Technique students, and your daily life all become influences.
An Alexander Technique moment, An Alexander Technique m o m e n t.
For Alexander Technique teachers, blogging is comparable to a musician writing an improvised jazz solo. You slow down and s t r e t c h out the time. This enables you to make more reflective choices.
In jazz, what might take two minutes to play could take weeks to write, and edit. Being able to control time in this way is a luxury. A musical line, which may have become a “cliche” for you, gets examined closely and thoroughly. You may realize why you like it or, conversely, never want to habitually play it again.
Similarly, writing about the Alexander Technique helps you identify cliches and other habits of thought and speech. You re-examine them, and decide if you like them, or never want to habitually say them again.
Alexander Technique Thinking-Words Have Meaning and Power
Original ideas arise and evolve during Alexander Technique lessons based on what’s occurring in the moment. The ideas may come from the teacher, the student, or the synergy between the two. A sentence or thought may be gone in an instant. These moments might be lost if not recorded later.
In the process of writing an Alexander Technique blog, ideas become something you pore over.
You may decide to expand on them, reaching something more profound. Conversely, you may realize things are becoming too convoluted, as this section now threatens to be, and end it.
So, write! Alright?
Mark Josefsberg-Alexander Technique NYC
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