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…

Working with NYC actors is similar to working with non-actors with a few significant differences. As with singers, the actors’ body is his/her instrument. If your ‘instrument’ is being tensed or strained unconsciously, if you have a level of body un-awareness, you’ll be less expressive at the very least.
Actors I’ve worked with have told me that after our Alexander Technique lessons they’re better able to approach roles and auditions with a blank slate. From that neutral place…

In some ways the Alexander Technique helps us get better at doing less. Doing less? This goes against the general vibe of New York City; the City that never sleeps, or even takes a nap. The Alexander Technique challenges the general vibe of NYC and other large cities in many ways.
Many of us have been taught to ‘do more’, ‘push yourself’, ‘no pain no gain’, and ‘always try harder’…

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 …

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…

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 …

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…

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 …