Sometimes we need to make ourselves shorter; leaning over a sink, picking something up, sitting down, or playing a sport. The girl in the picture is shortening herself for leverage, but not by shortening her spine. She is lowering herself by letting her knees go forward…

New York seems to have shorter and shorter Springs every year. It’s April 19th, 2009 and one of the first warm weekends of the year. So I decided to spend it in the Emergency Room at Elmhurst hospital. I stubbed my toe pretty badly on Saturday and now it has the color and size of an eggplant. The Alexander Technique comes into play…

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 …

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…

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 …

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…

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

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 …