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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 …

A New Way To Look
Tuesday, 20 Jan, 2009 – 7:11 | No Comment
A New Way To Look

Things Are Looking Up

Do you ever notice what you look at  when you’re walking outdoors?                                       …

Alexander Technique and Doctors, Dentists, Dental Hygienists, Hairdressers, etc.
Saturday, 17 Jan, 2009 – 4:27 | 3 Comments
Alexander Technique and Doctors, Dentists, Dental Hygienists, Hairdressers, etc.

Sometimes when we go we go these people we are put in weird positions, and I’m not talking about having to foot the bill.
Which reminds me of one more: Podiatrists.  The weird position I’m talking …

Alexander Technique- New York Times (excerpt)
Thursday, 15 Jan, 2009 – 2:58 | No Comment
Alexander Technique- New York Times (excerpt)

It would come as no surprise to teachers of the Alexander technique, a method of adjusting body postures to relieve damaging stresses, to hear that my neck is plagued by perpetual tension, occasional pain and …

Alexander Technique and Stress
Monday, 5 Jan, 2009 – 3:00 | 2 Comments
Alexander Technique and Stress

As I was riding the subway on my way to teach some Alexander Technique lessons, an announcement was made over the PA system: Gr Grbrwr Kr gaggar.  Sometimes that’s what announcements sound like in the …

Alexander Technique-How We Learn Posture
Thursday, 1 Jan, 2009 – 7:01 | 2 Comments
Alexander Technique-How We Learn Posture

Alexander Technique lessons in New York City, 2009, have a lot in common with the Alexander Technique of the early 1900’s. Slumping and slouching are still alive and well…

How To Reduce Neck Pain
Thursday, 1 Jan, 2009 – 5:55 | 7 Comments
How To Reduce Neck Pain

I have a stiff neck. We say we have a stiff or sore neck, as if someone gave it to us and now it’s ours. In Alexander Technique terms it might be more accurate to say “I’m stiffening my neck.” Of course if you say it that way you sound insane…

Alexander Technique In The Cold
Wednesday, 17 Dec, 2008 – 4:51 | One Comment
Alexander Technique In The Cold

It can get pretty cold in New York City, and the Alexander Technique can help; not with the cold, but how we react to the cold. When we’re cold we tend to shorten our spines, though this is usually an unconscious action. We scrunch our necks in an effort to keep warm. It might or might not it keep us warm, but it certainly doesn’t help our neck…

Alexander Technique Poor Posture Problems, and Painful Positions
Friday, 20 Jun, 2008 – 11:19 | No Comment
Alexander Technique Poor Posture Problems, and Painful Positions

‘P‘ words seemp to have have an important and prominent place in the Alexander Technique, precisely why there’ll be a pot-pourri of p’s permeating and peppering this perfunctory post.

It’s plausible to think the Alexander Technique is about particular positions, poses or appearances but more precisely…

Alexander Technique Back Pain, Neck Pain.
Friday, 20 Jul, 2007 – 16:02 | No Comment
Alexander Technique Back Pain, Neck Pain.

The Alexander Technique can have a huge, positive impact on pain, and I know this from personal experience. The Alexander Technique got me out of the severe neck pain I was in, and now I see the same results over and over as I teach Alexander Technique lessons in NYC to people suffering from back pain, neck and shoulder pain, hand pain. We don’t realize that we’re causing our own pain by the way we use our bodies (poor posture, added stress). The good news is that the Alexander Technique shows us a way out from this pain. It puts us back in control…