What are you doing right now as you’re sitting and reading this? I'll assume you’re sitting and reading right now. If you are sitting, where is your face? I mean, is it poking towards the computer screen? A clearer way to think about this is that you're poking your neck towards the screen; your face is going along for the ride. We tend to poke our necks forward and down; compressing. The muscles in our necks are working harder than necessary. It would be better...
One area people ask me about most concerns computer posture. We tend to collapse down in front, poking our necks, faces and upper chest towards the screen. Sound familiar? Feel familiar? How about right now?... What we want is for our necks to be free of excess tension, so that our head can move up. Tension shortens our neck, bringing the head back and down. We want the head to move forward (rotationally) and up. A simple way to achieve this forward rotation is to slightly, slowly lower your nose, while the crown of your head moves up. At the same time...
Here are a few of my favorite Alexander Technique related books, in no particular order:
Is the Alexander Technique a 'series of posture exercises?' Yes! And no. What might be implied with the word 'series' is that there are exercises one does in a certain order, and they're the same for everybody... however, exercise doesn't always mean working out or lifting weights...One of the big difference between many of these Alexander Tech posture exercises and what we might usually think of as exercise is that that you don't have to spend any extra time 'doing' the Alexander Technique. You incorporate...
