Articles tagged with: Awareness
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 …
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. …
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 …
Things Are Looking Up
Do you ever notice what you look at when you’re walking outdoors? …
For quite a while now we’ve been spending less time writing and more time at the computer. Writing, however, provides us another opportunity to become aware of our habits. Since most of our writing is …
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 …
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 …
