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Reading Slump
Wednesday, 1 Apr, 2009 – 4:20 | 2 Comments
Reading Slump

How are you supposed to read without collapsing in front? Doesn’t the book (you remember them) draw you down into it?  Is there a way to read without compressing your spine, or holding it rigidly …

Alexander Technique Teacher Search
Monday, 23 Mar, 2009 – 16:05 | No Comment
Alexander Technique Teacher Search

If you’re looking looking to take Alexander Technique lessons in New York City, how would you search the web? The most direct path Alexander Technique classes NYC ” is another possibility, but that might lead you to group classes. Taking group Alexander Technique classes may be a good way to go, but not if you have bad back pain or neck pain…

5 Tips for better posture
Sunday, 15 Mar, 2009 – 23:25 | No Comment
5 Tips for better posture

1.    Head in the clouds; feet on the earth. Think of the opposition of your head moving up, while your feet are releasing down. If you’re sitting, think of your head moving up and your …

Alexander Technique NYC Holistic
Thursday, 26 Feb, 2009 – 17:39 | 4 Comments
Alexander Technique NYC Holistic

In Man’s Supreme Inheritance by F.M.Alexander, (the ‘Alexander’ in the Alexander Technique) writes…”a human being functions as a whole and can only be functionally changed as a whole.” In my Alexander Technique teaching here in NYC this is illuminated countless times. People get the mistaken impression that their back pain has nothing to do with their neck, their neck pain has nothing to do with their jaw, their hand pain has nothing to do with their overall tension, and their shallow breathing has nothing to do with their job…

Alexander Technique’s Positive Side Effects
Tuesday, 17 Feb, 2009 – 22:21 | No Comment
Alexander Technique’s Positive Side Effects

Have you noticed the pharmaceutical commercials where the list of potential side effects seems to go on and on? Many of them sound worse than the original condition the drugs are supposed to treat! I …

What Is The Alexander Technique?
Tuesday, 17 Feb, 2009 – 4:33 | 2 Comments
What Is The Alexander Technique?

The Alexander Technique is a way to reduce back pain. It’s a way to reduce neck pain. A way to have better posture. It’s psychophysical re-education…

Arms and Hands
Sunday, 15 Feb, 2009 – 3:02 | One Comment
Arms and Hands

How many times do we lift our arms and use our hands throughout the day? Countless times, and every time we lift them we want to utilize principles of the Alexander Technique. Firstly, the primary …

Alexander Technique Balance
Thursday, 29 Jan, 2009 – 4:28 | No Comment
Alexander Technique Balance

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 …

Alexander Technique Tools
Sunday, 25 Jan, 2009 – 23:54 | No Comment
Alexander Technique Tools

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 …

Ergonomics Reversed
Friday, 23 Jan, 2009 – 2:48 | One Comment
Ergonomics Reversed

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 …