It's not all good. Not all changes brought about by the Alexander Technique are good. There are some seldom-talked-about negative outcomes. In the interest of truthiness, I've listed a few. 1. If the shoe fits. If you're habitually gripping your toes, you're habitually shortening your feet. As you let go of this [...]
Alexander Technique releases your emergency brake---by releasing your emergency neck. We tighten our neck when there's an emergency, and some of us live in a constant state of emergency. Our collapse starts from our neck and, we hold stress in our neck. It's fight or flight--- The stress is the fight, and the collapse is [...]
Early on in Alexander Technique lessons it comes as a shock to people when they realize that the simple acts of texting, typing, brushing (or putting on make-up, shaving, combing hair, putting on glasses, eating, and on and on), compresses the spine. Spinal compression for these everyday actions is both unnecessary and damaging. Then why do we do it? For a combination of reasons including imitation, laziness, boredom, or fatigue. This may result from being unmindful, inattentive, unobservant and unaware. With repetition, it becomes a habit. It becomes how we do everthing; We start any motion with spinal compression...
The Alexander Technique worked great for kids in an after-school art class today. The teacher gave his students an assignment. They were to draw him, in a full-length portrait. He gave them ten minutes, and then collected their work and put it aside. I was at the side of the room, just watching. I saw [...]
