Articles tagged with: Awareness
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 …
There have probably been 5000 articles written with the title ‘Your Mother Was Right’, when it comes to posture. The articles imply that mothers tell their children to ‘sit up straight!’ and that’s a good thing…or is it?
Can the Alexander Technique and Alexander Technique lessons help us with the stress of the holidays, 2009 style? Absolutely, especially when we remember that the stress isn’t the problem. The real problem is how we handle the stress, and the manifestations of the stress. Stress has symptoms. Our body tells us we’re stressed because our breathing gets shallow, our hearts race and our muscles contract. We tighten our necks, bringing our head back and down which could be a result of our habitual startle response…
The Alexander Technique teaches us how to reduce our stress in a New York minute. In New York City, or any other large city, less stress is welcome and needed. The Alexander Technique helps by giving us more control over ourselves, but this control is not the rigid kind we usually think of. The Alexander Technique type of control leads towards freedom and the lessening of stress and tension…
Some meditators have told me that one of the challenges to their practice is attempting to sit comfortably for a length of time; whether ten minutes or an hour or more…
